Love what is because resistance is futile

Resistance is so awkward. It makes normal movements broken and choppy. It teases up the shoulders until they run close to your ears rather than down by your shoulder blades where they belong. It makes the natural response to any question snappy, short and often and imperative "no!"

It's awkward and unyielding, and it stops the flow of everything. So where does it come from?

Resistance is the inability to accept presence - What Is Happening Right Now.

This is happening, "No!" we unconsciously think, "I refuse to believe it!" Internally we have a little, often unnoticed temper tantrum, "It's not what I want, it's not how I planned it, it's not MY WAY, waaaaaaaaaaaah!"

But it IS. It exists in reality, it is exactly what it is, and no matter how much, how many or how intense the temper tantrum, the temper tantrum is not going to change the fact that what is, IS.

And that is why resistance is futile. You can say, "No, no, no," all you want, but the fact remains that it's there, and nothing will change in the light of resistance, nothing can. To change what IS, you have to be here, right now with the 'what is' and pretty much be its best friend. You have to love it enough to be present with it, appreciate it enough to acknowledge that it is what it is, and embrace it enough to get the lesson so you can then, finally, let go of it.

It is the classic and ageless battle between the ego (it must be the way I want it) and heart (I embrace what is). The ego wants to believe it knows best, but the heart knows that everything is a perfect part of the perfect whole exactly as it is. The ego screams, "I am safer when I feel like I am in control," and the heart knows that control is an illusion. The mind wants to argue that it could be different, but the heart knows what is IS.

There is no other way. You have to love what is, because resistance is completely and totally futile. When you stop struggling against what is, that's when peace takes over inside and you change and morph and transform yourself. And here is the beauty of the moment, the most incredible thing you have ever seen or experienced - just because you stopped struggling, just because you were willing to love it instead of fight it.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2008 Darshan F Jessop