According to me, it is a given that the Sermon on the Mount defies reason. There are, however, three words in the Sermon that take that defiance of reason to the outside of enough. Those three words...resist not evil.
I had to study those three words, resist not evil, until I got it. It was not easy, and it took as long as it took...in fact, until they owned me. Until my reasoning mind gave up the ghost, and I realized nonresistance is to exchange self-determined objectives for God-consciousness.
Often, we must needs go back there, say when a less-than-wonderful looms, and we're halfway into taking it personally. We get reminded that the basis of our truth is to live a nonresistant life, a spiritually based life.
To live a spiritually based life is to become willing to live not for self but for others with a sincere desire to take nothing personally.
As we seek for willingness and a sincere desire, our primary goal remains to love and laugh...and dance if the Spirit moves us.
[God's] essential paradox—that to lose is to gain and to die is to live. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, September 16, 2021
Thank you.
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