Life is a practice.
"The Surrender Experiment", by Mike M. A. Singer, with 40 years of life, did a great experiment. This book shows the growth of Singh's 40 years of meditation in the form of a life record.
Singh is an extremely successful businessman, yoga and meditation guru, and a best-selling author.
Singer's Book, The Unruly Soul, which won number one on the New York Times bestseller list, has been published in more than a dozen countries and territories, and he has become a spiritual mentor to many followers.
Switch yourself temporarily to the present state of "being" and become aware of what is happening in the present moment
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The young Singer was a PhD student in economics and a self-styled hippie.
One day, because of the "awakening" of his inner voice, he realized that he was observing his thoughts and emotions from the perspective of a bystander.
He struggled to find out what the other voice in his head really was and where it came from. When he reads Philip. After Kaple's "Three Pillars of Zen", he has since firmly embarked on the path of meditation and meditation.
Meditation in the desolate lands of Mexico, friendly interactions with villagers; the construction of sacred huts in the beautiful land of the heart's predilations; meditation with strange prisoners in prisons of the highest level of security...
Singh found that everything that happened in life was to guide himself.
He would stop himself at a fixed time each day and enter meditation.
At first, you will see the impatience and uneasiness in your heart, and Singer tries to get rid of it, but instead falls into more anxiety.
Singh says focus only on your breathing, and after a while, you find that your heart will slowly quiet down, face your worries, stubbornness or emotions, and then hear the voice inside you say, where should I go.
You are in the sea at night, the sea is pitch black, the terrifying sound of the waves and the whistling wind are mixed with the sweeping, the endless darkness seems to swallow people up, which makes you deeply frightened, where do you go?
Then a lighthouse appears in front of you, and it illuminates the waters in front of you, the only place where you can experience the flow of life, and you follow it.
The darkness of the sea envelops your past and future life situations; the lighthouse is your conscious awareness; the illuminated space is your present moment.
What kind of sailing experience you will have depends on the moment you are consciously aware.
"Abandon" your own prejudices and likes and dislikes, let go of judgment, and fully face loneliness and fear
"No, I can't do it!" When the voice exploded in Singh's head like an atomic bomb, he remembered the promise of surrendering to life.
He overcomes inner barriers and constantly pushes himself into a life that helps others grow spiritually.
Singer helped the president of a community college get a ph.D. and earned a position as an adjunct faculty member at Santa Fe Community College, where his teaching of cosmic thinking became one of the most popular courses.
He invited Yoga gurus from India to live alone and lecture, eventually creating a 600-acre retreat community deep in the dense forests of Florida, and to this day, a steady stream of people come here to feel the peace of mind and discover themselves.
Helping the local sheriff build a home became the beginning of the construction company that Singer later built with love.
Inadvertently touching computers, he built his own software company, and eventually promoted the electronic reform of the entire American health care system.
At every beginning, Singer never thought about what the outcome would be, but only accepted the "task" that fate had given him, surrendering life to the flow of the universe.
People tend to be accustomed to two attitudes in the face of hardships in life.
One is "man will triumph over heaven." This is actually an exaggeration of human power, which is probably only possible in mythology. If human beings can really dominate all things, why are they often powerless in the face of nature's revenge?
The other is "resigned to fate". Pessimistic people tend to passively resign themselves to the development of events, and when they feel powerless, they will only choose to escape or give up.
Whenever at this point, Singh chooses to surrender, and when life is somehow fully opened up in front of him, he constantly pushes his limits, releases himself, and then jumps and throws himself into it, and all that remains is life itself.
Everything that life gives back is never the goal we design, but the gift of love that the universe gives us.
Starting from the starting point, and finally returning to the starting point, when everything returns to zero, learn to "let go"
After experiencing all the good circumstances that life has given him, A false accusation plunges him into a seven-year-long litigation ordeal, and eventually he has to give up everything he built with his own hands and return to "nothing".
"Do not be happy with things, do not grieve with yourself", gaining and losing the mind to give way to the ordinary mind, is the advanced state of Singh meditation.
Ever heard the story of Gandhi throwing his shoe? As the train was about to start, Gandhi hurried to the door, accidentally getting caught in the door with one foot and his shoe falling out of the car.
The train started, and everyone else was anxious for him, but Gandhi did not hesitate to take off another shoe and throw it out.
Everyone was puzzled, but Gandhi smiled frankly, "No matter how expensive this shoe is, the remaining one is worthless to me." But if the poor man can pick up this pair of shoes, he may still be able to wear them, so wouldn't it be more valuable to him?"
The open-mindedness of the saint Gandhi in the face of loss is awe-inspiring and thought-provoking.
Those who feel sorry for Gandhi are only labeling things as good or bad according to their own preferences, but they have only increased their troubles.
Gandhi changed the way of thinking, which is "the blessing of the past, the love of the return" .
Trapped at the lowest point of his life, Singer still gave him as a gift of life. When all the dust settled, he wrote the book "The Subjection Experiment" with full gratitude.
The gains and losses in life make us find the preciousness we once had because of loss, know how to feel the warmth of love because of resentment, and learn to enjoy the quiet of loneliness because of noise.
Life is a short journey, how far you can go, what kind of scenery you can meet, in which corner, what kind of fate you encounter, no one knows.
What we have to do is not to abandon after choosing, not to feel guilty after letting go, to grasp the present moment, and to surrender to life.
"Surrender Experiment", it is worth watching again.