Resist Not Evil

Jesus said “Resist not evil.” Why do you suppose we are not to resist evil? Because resisting evil assumes that evil is a formidable foe, that evil exists in reality. If you resist evil, you would be resisting non-reality, and what a waste of time and energy that would be, thus making evil appear to be even stronger!

I love waiting on things to happen, because it helps me to get my priorities straight. Nothing in the world of form is that important, nothing is worth discounting my formlessness, my beingness. Having and doing are always actually secondary to being. Having and being are content in this drama, and they require time for fulfillment, and being is timeless. Being who I am requires no time, no doing, no having, only awareness. Anything that has to do with the past or present is less valuable than being present. Anything having to do with the past or present is time-bound, bringing up stress and irritation because we cannot control time or anything occurring in time, making it seem like our beingness and happiness is dependent on some external event.

Generally speaking we define ourselves by what happens or by what doesn’t happen, by activity, by ownership, by gaining and losing. We can now choose to welcome all so-called "problems" lest we define ourselves as "problem-solvers." We can choose to be free from any ultimacy which we attribute to problems and to problem-solving. A “problem” is when we give absoluteness to something relative.

There are only two categories: the limited and the unlimited, the form and the formless. The confusion of these two is the cause of unhappiness. Happiness is playing with and enjoying form, but not identifying with it. I am an unlimited being who has created the story that I am limited by time, space and matter. In each moment, I create time, space and matter and give it its finite or infinite meaning. I welcome not knowing about the future because it is merely content in the drama, and I am not in the drama except as a game to play. I am the dreamer of this dream.

I am not the little character on the stage rushing around trying to gain security and avoid insecurity. I am not the "small me" in my daily drama. I can be present now in full awareness, in full health, in full security, and in full happiness. Happiness depends on nothing and on no one. It is my natural God-given state, unless I make myself a victim of time. I am happiness. Worry about anything feeds the ego. Worry is futurizing. Worry about anything makes it appear that time has power over who I am. I choose not to resist the evil of time. time is just part of our ego drama when it becomes our master. I choose to be present, to be alert, to enjoy Eternity today.