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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Resistance


The flexibility that gets enhanced due to intense patriotism is what enables a soldier-spy to offer enormous resistance, in not yielding to torture, when captured by an enemy country!

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A candidate who offers resistance to 'additional' work is not preferred for recruitment by employers. That is what they try to find out during a personal interview... knowledge, skill, etc is already evidenced by paper-credentials.... But if an interviewer himself/herself lacks that flexibility, how can they find out whether the candidate is going to be flexible or is going to offer resistance?

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Spiritual seekers are 'obliged' to shed all sorts of resistance, if they hope to make 'any' progress at all on the spiritual path..... The master, teacher, guide can only create a situation, where the seeker can find it easier to drop resistance.... or where a person is almost ready, and when nature obliges to create the 'natural' situation, they evolve, and pave way for a debate about the need of a Guru! (Some huge trees have crevices, where dust settles into it over a period of time... some bird drops a seed having eaten the fruit thereof, and the rain provides the moisture, and that seed germinates!)...

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Resistance... is a capability, when we have only positive emotions within us...
Resistance .... is a barrier, a block, when we have mostly negative emotions within us...
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Aam aadmi oscillates between right orientation, and wrong orientation, and thus finds that flexibility to be a weakness at times, and that resistance to be a 'defense' at times!

psn(23rd September, 2012)

1 comment:

P.S.NARAYANAN said...

I felt fascinated when I *_observed_* that, ancients not only knew about 'resistance' of a mind too well( deep enough), but even sought to bypass it, to convey certain sensitive and subtle messages.
Look at this tradition : Garuda puranam is narrated only on 4th day after the death of a very close relative. It is prohibited on normal avrrage days. Reason : it is vulnerable to be laughed at, ridiculed, scoffed, mocked etc... Death of a close person, removes all kinds of resistance, stiffness, tendency to make fun of something, etc. people are very silent, sober, serene and pensive. Right time to drive home a subtle, sensitive concept 🤣.... With low resistance, acceptance deepens better 👍. Mind doesn't ask questions merely to become defensive, orto parry off the incoming thought😜