Looking for Resistance and Finding Nothing
Buscar la resistencia y no encontrar nada
A gentle exploration of looking directly at resistance and discovering it has no solid substance to hold onto.
Looking for Resistance and Finding Nothing
The temptation to seek a shift
You don't look for the experience of the shift in perception,
or contraction.
You look for the truth of that in every moment,
when you want to,
when you remember that.
And you feel okay, that that was something true,
that was more real.
"I want more of that."
Then notice the temptation to remember a shift in the experience,
a contraction, expansion, or perception,
and then look for it in the future.
A similar shift.
And instead,
notice that temptation.
Unless you haven't seen that that is the case always,
bring it as the next step to look at.
Looking for what is always the case
Look at the possibility that that's the nature of your reality all the time.
And then you look for that:
is there actually anything resisting now?
And so you're going to immediately come up on the experience of resistance,
what you call resistance.
And so you look at the resistance
and see what it's made of.
Seeing through resistance
It's going to be sensations.
It's going to be thoughts.
It's going to be an experience which is fully known, without resistance, effortlessly.
And then you're going to lose all of the objects of contraction and resistance.
They will go.
And it's like you're trying to grab them.
It's like, "I can't grab onto that resistance,"
because I can see through it.
There is no resistance there.
And so that which we are grabbing onto starts to kind of dissolve.
It's like trying to grasp water.
The root of identification
And the root of that is identification.
What's happening is "I" has no object to identify with.
And the absorption is to the shift,
to see that the "I" is always that emptiness,
always has been.
But it's in the movement of that identification;
it is experienced as a movement.
But once the change in the identification happens,
that movement ends.