You can't skip the preparation, but you also can't force the breakthrough. It makes me wonder: are there ways we can sense when to let go?
Perhaps there's a kind of relational coherence required in surrender too? In your piece on the held breath, the archer waits patiently for such alignment before choosing the moment of release: inner practice meeting outer conditions. Maybe surrender is more like fruit dropping from a tree - still requiring relational coherence (the right conditions for ripening), but the release itself is a fundamentally different mechanism. The archer decides 'now I let go' while the fruit simply stops clinging when ripe.
Although these represent two different types of agency (one where you act with patience, one where you stop acting), the same intuitive awareness of relational coherence can guide us in both. Maybe that is how we sense when it’s time.
“Effort carries us to the threshold. Surrender carries us across.”
Beautifully said. Thank you 🙏🏻🧡
In the essence of Dzogchen and Saijojo Zen, surrender then of dualistic effort (the illusion of doership that perpetuates dukkha-karma) is what allows as to remain (abide) in the Natural State of naturally perfected, naturally (effortlessly, intrinsically) concentrated Rigpa (Realization/Gnosis) (i.e. samadhi).
You can't skip the preparation, but you also can't force the breakthrough. It makes me wonder: are there ways we can sense when to let go?
Perhaps there's a kind of relational coherence required in surrender too? In your piece on the held breath, the archer waits patiently for such alignment before choosing the moment of release: inner practice meeting outer conditions. Maybe surrender is more like fruit dropping from a tree - still requiring relational coherence (the right conditions for ripening), but the release itself is a fundamentally different mechanism. The archer decides 'now I let go' while the fruit simply stops clinging when ripe.
Although these represent two different types of agency (one where you act with patience, one where you stop acting), the same intuitive awareness of relational coherence can guide us in both. Maybe that is how we sense when it’s time.
Beautifully said. I resonate with the frame of the archer and the fruit as different forms of coherence and release.
That distinction between wise action and ripened letting-go really deepens the question of what surrender asks of us.
“Effort carries us to the threshold. Surrender carries us across.”
Beautifully said. Thank you 🙏🏻🧡
In the essence of Dzogchen and Saijojo Zen, surrender then of dualistic effort (the illusion of doership that perpetuates dukkha-karma) is what allows as to remain (abide) in the Natural State of naturally perfected, naturally (effortlessly, intrinsically) concentrated Rigpa (Realization/Gnosis) (i.e. samadhi).
I'm so glad it resonated. You're welcome.
And, yes, exactly 👏🏼