Submission vs. Surrender: What's the difference?
- Lourdes Joan Loubriel Luna
- Feb 5, 2017
- 2 min read
What's the difference between surrender and submission?
I've been contemplating this a lot lately.
So much of our lives is controlled, managed, dissected, manipulated... after all the "reality" of form is based on pretty much all these things... for its sourced from the ego.
The present moment, the "NOW" is all there is. And in the quest of finding my truest Self in it, I must consciously surrender to the reality of what is. Being rather than "having to be", implies a natural, yet conscious acceptance of how the now appears, however it appears. Surrender is done through radical acceptance and awareness. It is felt, cannot be accessed through any sort of thought or concept of what we believe it to be. It is felt.. and witnessed. No judgement of what is, this is the product of sweet and joyful surrender.
Submission, on the contrary, is the un-natural" act of surrender to another's ego. Our own ego has been beaten down to the point of submission. It is an act of survival rather than consciousness. Our own ego is controlled and held hostage by the ego of the "other", and the submission to it leads to an endless cycle of suffering. For the ego can only survive by feeding the appearance of its mistaken reality. And what better way to feed it's realness, than to submit other's ego's into believing this to be true.
This is the difference.
So when we surrender, it is the single most victorious act of loosing you may ever perform. Through the experience of surrender, we loose the false sense of self... only to "discover" our truest nature, beyond any thoughts or beliefs. In this world we are already dead.
How can you loose to death itself, when death only means to be reborn as life itself?
So you see you never really "loose" anything, surrender means consciously letting go that sense of false self, letting go of that attachment to what isn't... only to feel what is. This sweet, joyful relief we find... when we consciously choose to discover peace... It is in this "seeking" we find we don't have to choose it anymore. Like my great teacher Christopher Papadopoulos says: "Peace it's always here, waiting for you to notice it."
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