The Nature of Resistance

自我的本質便是抗拒事物原來的樣子，也就是抗拒自性，而我們之所以無法成為自己是因為，誤以為基於抗拒的自我才是自己。

無法碰觸到自性的人格自我，透過執取、對抗內在經驗來站穩自己的腳步。人格自我對於什麼該發生，什麼不該發生擁有強烈的偏好，這些偏好所依據的是我們心中的理想，及所認為的苦受、樂受。我們對於好壞與威脅有各式各樣的價值標準。有些是我們表意識的標準，有些是潛意識的標準，而有更多令我們產生內在的分裂，這種分裂創造了一種內在的戰爭，一種內在的抵抗運動，然而我們的自性與生俱來便是未分裂、不可分割的。

The stance of the ego-self that doesn’t know its nature is to fight some experience and hold on to others.  The ego-self has preferences for what should happen and shouldn’t happen. According to its ideal of what we believe is enlightened or not, and what we think is pleasurable or painful. We have all kinds of value and judgement standards about what’s good or what’s bad, what is scary and what is not. Some of this is conscious, some of it is unconscious, and much of it divide us within. This division creates a kind of war, like a resistance movement within us, whereas our True Nature is inherently invisible and undivided.

當你在抗拒時，基本上你是在抗拒你自己。這是一種自我排斥。抗拒展現如實的自己，也就是抗拒自性。人格自我的本質不單單只是做自己，它暗喻了抗拒存在！

When you are resisting, you are basically resisting yourself.  It is a kind of self-resistance. Instead of being yourself, you are resisting being yourself. That is what it means to resist our True Nature. The ego experience, which is by its nature not simply being ourselves, implies resistance to being.

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人格自我的本質便是持續抗拒事物本來的樣子。即便我們的人格自我什麼也不做，也暗喻了我們正在抗拒自性，因為如果我不是我的自性，代表我在抗拒。事實是當我們無法經驗到自性與當下的自在，暗喻了我們正在抗拒。

The nature of ego itself is an ongoing resistance to what is.  Even just manifesting as ego implies that we are resisting our nature, because if we didn’t resist our nature we would instantly be our nature. So, the fact that we are not experiencing ourselves as our True Nature, the fact that we are not this spacious presence, implies resistance

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我們之所以無法展現如實的自己，可能是因為接觸自性所引出的開放性，會帶來各種的恐懼、脆弱、與不安全感，而這些東西因過於強烈而使我們無法承受。最終只有人格自我的死去，才是真正的活著。

It might be that allowing ourselves to feel our True Nature would threaten us too much by bring all kinds of vulnerabilities, fears, or securities into the open. In fact, truly being is a kind of death. I talk about things such as resistance and how to be allowing, but to really be without resistance means ego death, ultimately. 

From "Make Space for Everything," a chapter of "The Unfolding Now," segment titled “The Nature of Resistance,” ch. 3, p. 36