OBEDIENCE & SURRENDER

OBEDIENCE

Both Obedience and Disobedience
Are vastly overrated qualities.

Any dumb jerk can be obedient --
A primitive, knee-jerk survival reaction
To please and go along in order to get along,
With someone we've given away our power to.

Any dumb jerk can be disobedient --
A primitive, knee-jerk reaction
To resist and dis-please
Someone we've given away our power to.

Disobedience is a vain attempt to feel what we already are --
Free.
It never works.
By disobeying, we demand release
From whatever we're resisting
By tying ourselves to it.

Ruthless Rules of Reality

Whatever we resist, persists.

We become what we resist.

Blind obedience to general rules will always be problematical
Because each situation is unique,
Both in itself and within the surrounding circumstances at the time.
(We cannot step in the same river twice)
If obedience or disobedience is ever a question,
It will be about who and/or what we are being obedient or disobedient TO......
Individuals, self-held rules, values, concepts, beliefs, opinions and superstitions
That manipulate, dominate and control us.
Obedience and disobedience are also about an internal policeman called The Inner Critic/Judge
And his close colleague, Guilt --
The carnal coppers each of us has created for our selves
To drive us crazy.

"I was only following instructions....."
Obeisance is a refuge
Of those who have lost touch
With their one-ness with all that is,
With their in-tuition,
Their own internal guidance systems,
With their senses of empathy and appropriateness
And their sensitivity to the sovereign rights  of others.
"I haven't broken any laws..."

Blind obedience to anyone or anything
Is an abrogation of personal responsibility.
Obedience is for Victims --
Underdogs.
("Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir -- [sotto voce] -- I'll get you for this, sir.")
Underdogs in one environment
Become Topdogs in another.
Beware.
When an Underdog becomes a Topdog,
It becomes a worse Topdog than the previous incumbent.

In any environment where power over others is traded,
Whether it's across the floor of parliament, around a committee table, over the startline at a street drag race, or around the lounge room after a family funeral,
Underdogs and Topdogs warily jostle and jockey one another for position,
Like stray dogs on a Bangkok backstreet.

Obedience is the orig-anal, primitive Political Correctness.

SURRENDER

When we Surrender
We get to see more clearly What-Is;
We're freer to engage more creatively with What-Is, 
Just as it is.

There is no selling out
To obedience or disobedience,
To kowtowing or resistance.

In Surrender
We pass on our egos' glossy promise of Control
For the greater reality of Mastery.

Surrender is only possible
When the CEO of your life
Comes back from the world's longest lunch-hour,
Busts Ego back to the mailroom
And picks up responsibility once more.