UPDATE: An enhanced explanation of surrender can be found here:
http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2019/09/aspects-of-meditation.html#asp_med_surrender
Surrender is an aspect of letting go of unpleasant emotions. Surrender is the feeling you get when you realize you are trying to ignore or suppress an unpleasant emotion and you relax and stop resisting it. You stop fighting it. You let yourself feel it. You let it express itself in your body without letting it take over your mind. You observe the sensations in the body that comprise it. Surrender often changes the emotion from an unpleasant experience to a neutral sensation in the body.
Surrender is not just a thing to do, it is an attitude for daily life. By surrendering to unpleasant emotions that may arise, you can also learn to keep the surrender attitude even if you are not feeling anything unpleasant. The attitude of surrender is letting go of identity view. Surrender means you relinquish the need to defend your ego (your "self"). If you practice keeping that attitude during and after meditation sessions, you will get better and better at it.
It feels very nice to have the heavy responsibility of defending your ego lifted off your shoulders.
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