I learned about the "surrender experiment" when I was reading the book "There is only one thing in life". My favorite book in the past two years is The Courage of Hate. If the courage to hate is the distant beacon and methodology of a better life, then the surrender experiment is the practical guide to a better life.
The author of this book, Mike A. Singh, is an extremely successful entrepreneur and businessman in the secular sense, a master of yoga and meditation, and a best-selling author. Brilliant achievements have been made in many fields such as commerce, art, education, health and environmental protection. The book "Surrender Experiment" tells the story of the author Mike's mental journey for more than 40 years.
Singh, who is in his twenties, is a doctoral student in economics. One day, he suddenly heard a voice chattering in his mind. So he wants to find a way to suppress the sound. By chance, he learned from a book that meditation can make the voices in the brain disappear.
So he took out the education fee given to him by his parents and bought an open space in the forest, where he wanted to practice meditation. It's not enough to have open space. It's better to have a house for him to meditate. Singh turned to his classmates for help. They designed and built Singh's house by themselves.
After deep meditation, Singh's soul awakens and decides: give up self-prejudice, likes and dislikes, and let life take the helm, that is, surrender to life.
One day, a man wanted to build a meditation room on Singh's site for him to meditate. At first, Singh was very angry and felt that his territory had been violated, but he immediately thought of "surrendering to life" and stopped preventing others from building meditation places on his site. Not only that, Singh also offered to help build them.
Later, by chance, Singh also built a temple near his home for others to practice prayer and meditation. What's even more surprising is that Singh, who has no architectural knowledge background, later opened a construction company called "Building with Love", and his architectural experience came from the result of surrendering to life before-building his own house, helping others build houses and temples on his own site.
Who would have thought that Singh could open a construction company? Neither did Singh himself. In the subsequent surrender experiment, Singh created a software and set up a software company. In this book, Singh tells about his achievements in surrendering to life for 40 years, which makes people sigh the magic of life.
Maybe this is the wonder of life. The life we plan with great concentration may not be as we wish. People often say that "life is unhappy, nine times out of ten". Every time I mention this sentence, I feel lost beyond words. What if you give your life to life instead of specific planning?
I think life is unsatisfactory, mostly because we think too much and do too little. Suffering from calculation, but not putting it into practice. The author Singh's surrender experiment tells us that no matter what questions life gives you, if you answer them carefully, all kinds of miracles in life may appear. Now, would you like to follow Singh's surrender experiment with me and let life describe everything for us?
Life brings you more wonderful than the life you have planned with great concentration.