E184: Acceptance—For Everything There Is a Season
5/25/202647 min
Suffering is not caused by external events but by our resistance to reality and our inability to handle what has already happened. Acceptance means acknowledging reality and our internal reactions to it, not through suppression, but through allowing stored emotional energy to release. Through this process, one becomes peaceful, free from ego-driven preferences, and capable of living in harmony with life as it unfolds.
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First 90 secondsMichael Singer· Host0:01
Jai Guru Dev. Jai Masters. It's interesting how the human mind compartmentalizes things, and sometimes you look and you say the thing they don't like, presented another way, is exactly the things they do like. And like, you know, we teach surrender and acceptance, and not everybody teaches that. Very deep teaching, surrender and acceptance. The first problem is people think that acceptance is about the outside, that an airplane's coming at you, a car's driving at you, just stand there. Accept the consequences that you're standing there. Acceptance has nothing to do with that. Acceptance has to do that things are happening outside. They come in. That's why you have senses. So, so far we're fine. What's supposed to be happening is happening. It's coming in. You're experiencing it. Acceptance means can you handle that? Can you handle the reality unfolds in front of you? Who says it's reality? Reality does. It happened, therefore it's reality. How do you define reality? That which already happened. Can you change it? Can anybody change what already happened? Answer me. No. It's reality. But I don't like it. I, I understand, but it has nothing to do with the fact that it's reality. So surrender and acceptance