Resistance

Beloved master, what to do with the persistence of unblissful, seemingly infinite resistance?

Amit Prem, accept it, don't resist it. Don't resist the resistance. That's what you are doing. The first resistance is not the problem at all; the second resistance creates the problem. You are resisting your resistance. Your misery is unnecessarily multiplied. You drop the second resistance and you will be surprised: if you drop the second, the first will evaporate on its own accord. Jesus says: Resist not evil. A very strange statement... no other awakened person has given such a rebellious statement. Christian priests, missionaries, don't talk about it at all. They talk about other things, but they don't talk about this strange statement: Resist not evil. It seems very illogical, irreligious. Evil has to be resisted -- and Jesus says: Resist not evil. Why? There is a secret in it. If you resist evil, you give energy to it. Every resistance gives energy to the thing resisted. "Don't…

Lottu C. Chhugani, you have asked me to reveal the meaning of this: “Do not resist.”

One day Mulla Nasruddin saw his wife standing with his cricket bat. He felt a twinge of fear, but he pressed it down—as every husband must. Puffing out his chest, drawing a deep breath, he went in and asked, “Oh! Have you started playing cricket too? Do you know how to hit a six?” She said, “I don’t know how to hit sixes—I know how to knock the sixes out of you. And today I will.” Who ever wins against wives? But husbands and wives are dreaming like this—everyone is dreaming like this. The psychologist first asks you about your dreams, because in your waking you are dishonest. In waking you have built up such hypocrisy that your reality cannot be known from your waking. So the psychologist is compelled to search in your dreams—because in dreams you still can’t manage to be dishonest; the truth leaks out. In dreams…

Question: what should we do to achieve it?

You should not do anything. Only one thing: you must be aware, you must not resist; there must not be any resistance to it. But there is resistance; that is why there is suffering. There is an unconscious resistance. If something begins to happen to the brahma randhra, it just begins to make ego death come nearer. It seems so painful that there is inner resistance. This resistance can take two forms: either you will stop doing meditation or you will ask what can be done to transcend it, to go beyond it. Nothing should be done. This asking, too, is a sort of resistance. Let it do what it is doing. Just be aware and accept it totally. Be with it; let it do whatever it is doing, and be cooperative with it.

The theory that we have to push, force and kick ourselves -- is.this true? I hate fighting myself.

Look at the question. I go on saying to you that truth is not somewhere else, it is here. You have not to struggle your way towards it. It is through the struggle that you are missing it. You are not to push the river. By pushing the river you will never reach anywhere. You will simply get tired and exhausted. By pushing the river you are only creating the possibility of your utter failure. You cannot fight with the river. The river is huge -- life's river, the river of existence, is so huge -- and you are so tiny. You are just a ripple in the ocean -- a ripple trying to fight with the ocean, trying to direct the ocean, trying to achieve a private goal. It is simply ridiculous. And all struggle makes you ridiculous; all struggle makes you tired, exhausted, dull, sad, miserable. But one…