FORGIVENESS AS NONRESISTANCE

To my memory, laughably faulty today, my inner invitation to spirituality ever leading to still more spiritual growth began the first day I joined up with my people. It was shortly thereafter that I learned the Sermon on the Mount was our original how-to manual. 

Knowing nothing about the Sermon, I read it...and was less than impressed. Angry is the word since it made not a lick of sense to my mind and probably still doesn't to most material-minded folk.

I was persuaded to give it a go when I fully realized my choice: The God of my own understanding or my own personal sword of Damocles.

I began my study and, truly, it was three words therein that opened my mind, swept down to my gut, bounced up to my heart and infiltrated my Being...slowly. 

The three words: Resist not evil. 

Realizing the import of those words...accepting them as Truth...became my gateway up to a deeper level and, not to put on airs, still feels akin to wrestling with the angel. 

Who's kidding whom? To a reasonable person resist not evil is an invitation for evil to win. But if we do not accept evil for its own and do accept all incoming as just incoming, we have the beginning of the end of dual thinking. When there is no separation, there is naught to resist. Who's the winner? Who's the loser? There is only Oneness.

To ponder that with an accepting mind is to invite spirituality to make a home in our heart...is to commit to still more spiritual growth as a way of living daily...for our forever.

We begin to recognize forgiveness as just another word for nonresistance. Same goes with love. Take kindness in the face of unkindness. Resist not...think welcome say thank you, and unkindness has nowhere to land. 

Easy lesson to learn: Nonresistance does not mean we stand there with our bare face hanging out asking for another dollop of hurt...no. We mentally hug it and kiss it, shake the dust off our feet and move on.

Which helps to accept another Oh-No goodie from the Sermon: Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Ah, another one to ponder...and not resist.

Thank you.