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Yourself  The first question:  Is Zen the path of surrender?
Then how come the basic teaching of Buddha is, “Be a light unto
yourself”?  The essential surrender happens within you. It has
nothing to do with anybody outside you. The basic surrender is a
relaxation, a trust - so don’t be misguided by the word.
Linguistically, surrender means to surrender to somebody, but
religiously, surrender simply means trust, relaxing. It is an
attitude rather than an act: you live through trust.  Let me
explain. You swim in water, you go to the river and swim. What
do you do? - you trust water. A good swimmer trusts so much that
he almost becomes one with the river. He is not fighting, he
does not grab the water, he is not stiff and tense. If you are
stiff and tense you will be drowned, if you are relaxed the
river takes care.  That’s why whenever somebody dies, the dead
body floats on the water. This i