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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MTF" data-source="post: 920639" data-attributes="member: 5905">After reading his two books and watching one interview, I'm going through Michael's course <a href="https://www.soundstrue.com/products/living-from-a-place-of-surrender">Living from a Place of Surrender</a>. I have 9 pages of notes and I'm only halfway through. Also plan to go through all his <a href="https://www.soundstrue.com/products/the-untethered-soul-lecture-series-collection-audio-download">lecture series</a>.So I'm yet to understand everything well. Having said that, in response to this:It's a tough one. Maybe I'll have a better response when I finish the course. For now, my understanding is this:Surrender is about not clinging to good stuff (your likes) and resisting bad stuff (your dislikes). It's not resignation, though. It's embracing the reality that's there without making your entire life revolve around your likes (seeking more of it at the expense of enjoying the moment you were given) and dislikes (trying to avoid anything that triggers bad memories).So according to this, as long as you accepted the tax hike as something impersonal over which you have no control, surrender isn't about the choice to move or not. You performed an act of surrender already by not resisting the tax hike mentally. NOT surrendering would be letting it poison you - constantly complaining about it, telling everyone how unfair it is, how stupid it is, how it's not to your liking, how you can't be happy unless they repeal it, and generally speaking, wasting energy trying to change something you can't.Michael A. Singer emphasizes that ultimately we're here to experience reality. That's what our consciousness is all about: experiencing reality. The mind is a tool that helps do that (but it usually ruins our lives which is the entire point of learning how to surrender through having no preference).He says that every single experience makes you richer. Every different experience - positive or negative - is thus of equal value as long as you accept it as it is, without clinging to it or resisting it. Following this train of thought, all things being equal, the more different experiences you have, the better. So moving would be, according to this, a better choice for you because it will let you experience new things. Meanwhile, staying could be an act of clinging (staying there just because of nostalgia and closing yourself to the value of current and future moments while you're focused on clinging to that old Arizona that no longer exists). BUT if you're moving ONLY because you're running away from the tax hike, then isn't your dislike running your life? Then it's possible you haven't surrendered.I hope I didn't make it too confusing.But this is just what I'm speculating right now. Maybe the rest of the course will make it clearer for me.</blockquote>

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