RESIST NOTHING...KNOW PEACE

Blessed are they who learn not to just know but to do that which they are learning.

Doesn't that have an easy-peasy ring to it? Following it deeper, we just need read the Sermon again. There is not a word there that most of us would need a dictionary in order to understand it...it's the meaning of the action called for where our reasoning mind balks. 

As we head on out into our walking-around world, we set the goal of doing the Sermon. No, who's kidding whom?, we set the goal of doing just one command of the Sermon...say, for example, agree with your adversary quickly.

Before we get out the door, the question nattering our brain is, "What exactly qualifies as an adversary?" 

The answer, not to put too fine a point on it, is anything or anybody that we resist...that we feel any resistance toward.

That's our starting point, and it will remain our starting point for a long, long time. We will stay up in our head turning it this way, that way, up, down and sideways until we are led to an admission of defeat but with a willingness to be taught a new way of thinking. There's the key that opens the door for understanding to flow forth. 

This is the process we must needs take through every word of the Sermon that causes us pause. It is a lifetime's journey. We will, however, reach the peace that passes understanding with our first reasoning mind admission of defeat. We have come to the fork in our mental road where we travel away from the desire for intellectual understanding and head toward the gift of inner knowing.

To walk the Sermon unto breathing it is to live and to give peace. To just know the words of the Sermon in order to recite them to others, i.e., those we determine need them, is ego on parade. There is no spiritual growth there, but there is a lot of loving laughter.

Thank you.