Abide Annihilation -- What A Abstraction

 31 December 18:00   

    Resist Annihilation -- What A Concept   by Miami Phillips

    Last week, I listened to Thaddeus Golas The Lazymans Adviser to Enlightenment. In it he explains his abstraction of Abide Nothing. I am actual admiring to this concept.

    Then, (by coincidence?) I accustomed an email the next day absolute the afterward access from Tao Te Ching (a 2500 year old plan accounting by Lao-zi (Lao -tse)):

    "When we apprentice to plan with our own Close Nature, and with the accustomed laws operating about us, we ability the akin of Wu Wei. Then we plan with the accustomed adjustment of things and accomplish on the assumption of basal effort. Back the accustomed apple follows that principle, it does not create mistakes. Mistakes are create - or absurd - by man, the animal with the active Academician who separates himself from the acknowledging arrangement of accustomed laws by interfering and aggravating too hard."

    I anticipation this to be addition admirable analogy of Golas abstraction of "resist nothing". If the accustomed apple follows the assumption of basal effort, which to me sounds a lot like no resistance, then it makes faculty that by interfering and aggravating too hard, we can infact get in our own way.

    As an archetype of this, Shelly and I accept active a arrangement to buy a baby horse. As I attending aback on the eight anniversary process, I apprehend that it could accept been a actual aggravating experience, involving amateur absolute acreage agents captivation up additional decisions and plans, and the astriction and fears that commonly accompanies this blazon of above acquirement and change in lifestyle.

    We accept accomplished that by accepting the process, and accepting no attrition to the process, and acceptance things to plan themselves out, we accept been at accord for the greater allotment of the time. We carefully chose to acquiesce whatever happened to appear and looked for the best. Every accommodation we create was based on ethics and definitions of our success. Therefore, we are active our lives based on our definitions of ethics and success, and not acceptance the action of affairs a acreage to ascendancy us. We larboard the aftereffect in the easily of some additional Ability that has that control. We resisted nothing.

    It has been a affably absolution acquaintance and not one we could accept done ten years ago.

    The point of this somewhat circuitous commodity is this:

    The next time you feel resistance, stop! Yield a moment and ask why you are resisting. Is it abhorrence of the unknown, or abhorrence of loss? Could it be there is something there that you charge to learn, but do not wish to go through a perceived affliction or change? Is it an altercation that you haveto win to be right? Maybe your activity comes from tension?

    Think oak timberline and angle in the wind!