Much spiritual teaching today extols control and resistance. But resistance comes from the idea of struggle. That we need to ‘attain’. Resistance is statis and what you resist you anchor yourself to. Hold your principles. Those things that engage you more with life. Recall your instincts and act.
If everyone learnt the simple lesson about the cycle going full circle then life would be so much easier. It would be less contentious. Less argument and struggle, less stifled. More dynamic. More healthy for people in general. If blood flow stops we die. So perhaps flow is good. Flow is positive, resistance is negative. Stagnation. Flow is change and growth and opportunity for correction.
Attention creates reality. It is a mighty power. Example, at any given time when you are at odds with another. Is it not also true that their is something good about them? Like opposing magnets? You can flip poles with a change in focus
The secret to mastering diplomacy is really not much of a secret. Your not actually opposed to who you disagree with.
“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.” Maya Angelou
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If you’re new here, seek and you will find…and subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I find that just as in physics, resistance plays a big part in spirituality as well. What we resist isn’t removed by our resistance, and much of orthodox religious teaching seems to extol resistance, denial, asceticism. I suppose they [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in Resistance | Leave Insight
Conditioning is a terrible thing to overcome, and in identifying it we resist it. It was all we were taught to do… not identifying the source, that primal world that we still come from. We didn’t arise by accident. No body does. Accidents are human, but even that is not defining. Accidents are human, but [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in Resistance | Leave Insight
About changing essential nature… I can turn water into vapour. It’s in waters nature to become vapour. You interact with it, but you don’t change its nature. The sun makes it vapour also. It is a part of what we consider “unseen” but it is very much the essence, it’s spirit.
The sun also turns oceans [...]
May 15th, 2008 | Posted in Resistance | 1 Insight
What is the difference between resistance and principles? Principles manifest as essences, and they don’t block you. They empower you. To say I believe that love is the highest ideal. What does love as the highest ideal prevent you from? Really nothing. It engages you more in life. It’s like saying food is good for [...]
May 15th, 2008 | Posted in Resistance | Leave Insight
If you do a thing and you do it right the first time, what must you learn? Really nothing. That is not defining of the human condition, but we make it a part of it. Mostly because as I have said before, we are taught to resist our problems. When all you have is a [...]
May 16th, 2008 | Posted in Resistance | Leave Insight
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