Surrendering When You cannot Escape

 Five Thing to Remember:

• We will all grow old.  It is natural for our bodies to age.There is no escaping the aging process.
• We will all get sick.  It is natural for bodies to get sick and breakdown from time to time. There is no escaping illness. 
• We will all die. It is natural for our  bodies  to expire at a certain point. There is no escaping death.
• We will all lose the things we cherish and cling to today. All things are, by nature, impermanent. There is no escaping change. 
• The only thing any of us will ever  truly own is our actions. Cause and effect is a natural phenomenon. There is no escaping the consequences of our action. 

As paraphrased from the video below.

Thrashing around in a small cage is bound to hurt  the person who perceives imprisonment. It can also cause so much injury, making the situation worse.  When we stop thrashing, stop resisting the reality around us and just sit where we are, we begin to see just how much space there really  is this cell and we also notice that the door was never locked. 

So many of us are constantly struggling and attempting to escape the reality of being human, and this only causes more suffering.

We need to surrender to escape. Surrendering and letting go to the realities of Life  is not morbid and pessimistic. It is liberating and freeing.  These realities do no cause our suffering, resisting the truth  of them does.

All is well. 

Thay Ngo Knong ( Brother Freedom)/ Deer Park Monastery (April, 2021) The Art of Letting Go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjJp3KqKBA