A Subtle Surrendering Non-technique

[No-Thing]

Triggered by Adyashanti's "End of Your World" (shoutout to Leo's booklist, I can recommend. Leo if you read this can you add dates of addition or batch numbers to your books, so that people know which are new/old?), I had realization yesterday. Over the years I have gathered many self-help/spiritual techniques that help you to let go, be in the now, question your beliefs, release energetic blockages, yadda yadda yadda. I don't want to dismiss those because they helped me quite a bit, but I feel there is a time where they can hold you back for reasons I am going to explain in a moment. So, instead of using all those different techniques for different circumstances I now experiment with using just this one. Oh how ironic, another technique. Well, it is actually a non-technique.

The trap of some techniques is that they imply a hidden should on which the ego likes to latch onto. Letting go implies, you should let go. Being in the now implies, you should be in the now and so on. Of course teachers are well aware of that and disclaim this trap in their book but a while after reading, your ego tends to not give a fuck about this disclaimer anymore. 

So let's imagine in a given situation you feel a slight sense of superiority. You become aware of it and think, "oh cool something to let go of". You do your favorite technique and it works or it doesn't. Problem 1 is, the trigger for your technique was a slight energy movement of not accepting the sensation for what it is. Problem 2 is they often work on a level of thoughts or at least trigger thoughts in the beginning.

I claim that the following non-techniques can bypass said shortcomings.

Subtle Surrendering Non-Technique

The following non-technique is probably best suited if your awareness power is over 9000 and your day to day functioning is quite peaceful but from time to time your ego kicks in and makes you go out of sync. It is a technique that is to be practiced throughout your day, though it can also be applied while on the cushion. This technique is nothing new, it was described by many teachers but sometimes the 1349th time of hearing something makes you go click. 

I sometimes see our true nature as this ever present, non-judging, non-moving, non-changing no-thing. To get in touch with that, you can practice to become aware of the stillness underneath the noise, the peace underneath war, the love underneath hate and violence or the space within objects. To become enlightened means to fully align our humanness with all aspects of our true nature and become an expression of that in our world. A flower of consciousness, how Eckhart likes to put it. This technique can help you to align with your true nature as it is non-judging and still. 

Okey, same situation. You feel a slight sense of superiority creeping up. Now you do absolutely nothing, you just watch it. It's a sense of letting go of the steering wheel. There is no reaction to your reaction. Just watch it. If your reaction triggers a thought or the want to let go of it then that is absolutely fine just that now you watch your want to let go of superiority. 

Here is a comprehensive list of what don't do when your ego kicks in.

• You don't try to accept it
• You don't try to let go of it
• You don't try to love it
• You don't try to transcend it
• You don't try to overcome it
• You don't try to become present
• You don't try to do anything

You just watch it. Just put your awareness on the sensation that normally triggers you to come up with the idea that you need to apply a technique to make it go away or transcend it or accept it in order to become "enlightened". Do you see where I am coming from? This non-technique is the unconditioning process of your spiritual (or any other) reaction to sensations you think need changing.

Here some ways to put it.

• Letting go of the steering wheel (I want you to physically go through that movement. Raise your arms with open palms and open eyes and be still for a moment. Image search surrender on google if you don't know what I mean. Notice how this movement feels like. That is it.)
• No touchy, only looky

 

[How to be wise]

Some hard shit, way beyond me!

Is the technique from Adyashanti's book.

[No-Thing]

@How to be wise It's not directly described in the book. It just help me become more clear about what I was doing for a while.

So basically this is the process. You get knee deep (or better plunge underwater directly) into spirituality. Learn and embrace all techniques you can find and use them to release most of your ordinary stuff and identity. Than at a given point all that is left from you is spirituality and the though-processes and techniques you learned from that. In the beginning spirituality might be on your mind an hour or two per day. For me it stares me right in my face 24/7 whenever I am not 100% absorbed in something else. My mind kind of automatically contemplates on this topic because there is not much else left to think about. At this point there is no going forward as the mind will never grasp what it tries to grasp. The only thing left to do is to let go if the sinking ship all-together by using a non-technique like this. You let go of all remaining mind-movement (at least for a moment), face all the remaining fears that keep you from doing that and then plunge right into the unknown. And then? Come see for yourself.

I think this step is what Jed McKenna describes as, "Kill your Buddha" but I am not entirely certain.

Edited June 7, 2017 by No-Thing

[Toby]

If you really listened or read through the book you knew that "you" cannot do it. Even Adya wasn't able to completely surrender his "athlete"-identity without life forcing him to (aka "fierce grace").

[No-Thing]

@Toby I know what you mean. That's why I called it a non-technique. Language is just so incompetent to describe those territories. I wouldn't say though, that life has to force you through every single door. Life just shows you where you still resist. But enlightenment can happen right now without any causality. 

[Toby]

Yes, but from my perception the way you write you still believe that it is about you to do it. Even if it is a no-doing doing. From my experience this is not correct. But hey, that's just how I perceive it right now which may change any time.

[Paintballer]

Adyashanti>> 

[No-Thing]

@Toby Good point. Thank you!

[Tano]

On 07/06/2017 at 6:43 PM, No-Thing said:

@How to be wise It's not directly described in the book. It just help me become more clear about what I was doing for a while.

 

I think this step is what Jed McKenna describes as, "Kill your Buddha" but I am not entirely certain.

THIS is what 'Kill the Buddha means', in real life, not in the realm of human imagination: www.enlightenmentmyth.com

 

I met Jed. All Is Lie.