The Way of Surrender

This ebook features dialogues and contemplations from The Way of Surrender, a weekend retreat.

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Our suffering arises from the mistaken belief that each of us is a separate self, an apparent contraction or localisation of one infinite and indivisible reality. In The Way of Surrender, Rupert Spira guides you to shift your attention from the content of experience – your thoughts, feelings, emotions, perceptions, and sensations – to awareness, the open, limitless field of being within which all experience continually arises.

Rupert also describes two pathways to alleviate our suffering: the way of enquiry, where the self loses its apparent limitations; and the way of devotion, where the self is expanded beyond its apparent limitations.

As the felt sense of separation often has its roots in early traumatic experiences, leaving emotional residues stored within the body, Rupert presents meditations and dialogues that illuminate how to address and dissolve these hidden emotional traces. When you knowingly stand as this open field of awareness, even deeply embedded traumas can be invited into this space, understood, and ultimately dissolved. The Way of Surrender, then, is to know yourself as the boundless, resistance-less presence of awareness.

The Sahaja Digital Retreat Collection offers titles that re-create the experience of a full retreat with Rupert Spira, featuring guided meditations and selected dialogues from one of his weekend or seven-day retreats. This ebook presents lightly edited transcripts of the contemplations and conversations held at The Way of Surrender, an online weekend retreat in September 2021.

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