The practice of surrendering...

What do we surrender in the practice of surrendering?
Or what are we giving up or letting go?

• The egoism
• The idea of 'I' and 'my'
  
• Worldly self-image and identifications with qualities of names and forms
• The sense of self-esteem and self-worth
  
• Attachment and possessiveness
• Craving and aversion
• Desire of wants and don't wants
• Dissatisfaction and disappointment
• Feelings of hurt and guilt
• The past and the future
• Greed and stinginess
• Anger and hatred
• Pride and arrogance
• Jealousy
• Lust
• Fear and worry
• Petite-mindedness
• Conditioned thinking and beliefs
• Ill-will and ill-thinking
• Criticism, gossip, slander, condemn, back-biting, vain talk, boasting, argument, politic, plot, scheme, scam, bribe, tempt
  
• Hypocrisy, untruthfulness, indirectness and lies
• Justification and glorification
• Intention and expectation
• Judgment and comparison
• Inspiration and aspiration
  
• Racism, discrimination, prejudice, bias, violence, intolerance
• Worldly passionate desires and sensual enjoyment, achievements, name and fame, social status and power
• Day dreaming, imagination, anticipation, projection, speculation
• Control or change the reality to be the way that we like it to be
• Longing for attention, affection, approval, support, encouragement, praise, compliment, acknowledgement, recognition and appreciation
• Duality and the sense of separateness
  
• The sense of meaningfulness and meaninglessness
• The sense of positiveness and negativeness
• The sense of goodness and badness
• The sense of worthiness and unworthiness 
• The sense of belonging
  
• Self-righteousness
• The urge to control, change, convert, threaten, discipline and punish others
• Superstitious ideas and practices
  
• Heroism, fairy tale, wishful thinking, magical and miracle moments
  
• Blind-believing, blind-following, blind-practicing, blind-agreeing/disagreeing and blind-propagating
  
• Restlessness
• Laziness
  
• Over-eating, over-sleeping, over-talking, too much physical and mental activities
• Spiritual transcendental achievements
• The fruit of actions

Om shanti