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Old 31-03-2021, 06:00 PM
HITESH SHAH HITESH SHAH is offline
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emptiness / surrender

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Originally Posted by iamthat
people may not like words such as surrender and emptiness, because in everyday life surrender has connotations of weakness and helplessness, while emptiness has connotations of something bleak and meaningless.

Whereas on the spiritual journey surrender is the willingness to let go of that which is small and limited in order to experience a greater reality. And as you say, love is the key to surrender. And emptiness is that state without qualities which allows all things to be, which is our own nature.

Peace
Many including myself fear & hence dislike certain terms like these . So I thought a clarification can be better for us.
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