DONT RESIST YOUR RESISTANCE If youre trying to let go of something uncomfortable in your experience, friend, if youre trying to release it, give it up, surrender it, dissolve it, youve probably already unconsciously rejected it! You are only trying to allow or accept or be with the pain so that it will go away, disappear, die, never return. You are longing for the death of your present experience. There is a violent agenda there, disguised as a spiritual practice. Can you see that your attempt to release this moment is really an act of resistance, a rejection of life, a NO to the moment? Instead, begin where you are. Instead, acknowledge that pain is here. Validate, honour, sanctify the present scene in the movie of your life. Dont try to rush to the next pain-free scene. Get intimate with this scene, the only scene there is right now. Acknowledge, too, that an urge to be free from the pain is also here. Dont pretend that its not. Honour what is here. Know yourself now as the wide open space of awareness in which BOTH of these life-movements are appearing - the pain AND the longing to be free from the pain, the discomfort AND the search for its resolution. Know that both the pain AND the longing, both the discomfort AND the egos resistance to it, are already allowed in this moment. They are already valid expressions of life, welcome visitors in your vastness, waves in your great ocean. You dont have to allow them in - they are already in. Your allowing or non-allowing, as I often say, is already too late. You cannot do acceptance when you ARE acceptance. Forget about trying to allow this moment, and simply notice that this moment is already allowed. Give up trying to give up, friend! Let go of trying to let go. Allow yourself to not be able to allow at all. Accept your inability to accept. Lose interest in resisting your resistance. Surrender your attempts to surrender. This is the gentle way, the way of no-way, the way of grace.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:24:10 +0000
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