BOOK ONE RESISTANCE Defining the Enemy
The enemy is a very good teacher. —the Dalai Lama
敵人是非常好的老師缀遍。
RESISTANCE’S GREATEST HITS
The following is a list, in no particular order, of those activities that most commonly elicit Resistance:
- The pursuit of any calling in writing, painting, music, film, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional.
- The launching of any entrepreneurial venture or enterprise, for profit or otherwise.
- Any diet or health regimen.
- Any program of spiritual advancement.
- Any activity whose aim is tighter abdominals.
- Any course or program designed to overcome an unwholesome habit or addiction.
- Education of every kind.
- Any act of political, moral, or ethical courage, including the decision to change for the better some unworthy pattern of thought or conduct in ourselves.
- The undertaking of any enterprise or endeavor whose aim is to help others.
- Any act that entails commitment of the heart. The decision to get married, to have a child, to weather a rocky patch in a relationship.
- The taking of any principled stand in the face of adversity.
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
Now: what are the characteristics of Resistance?
生詞：
entrepreneurial venture：創(chuàng)業(yè)冒險(xiǎn)
enterprise：企業(yè)
unwholesome：不健康的
undertaking：事業(yè)
entail：需要
weather a rocky patch in a relationship：在一段感情中度過難關(guān)
adversity：逆境
以下是最常引起抵抗的那些活動(dòng)的清單，沒有先后順序：
1）對(duì)寫作、繪畫丹喻、音樂安拟、電影馆截、舞蹈等任何創(chuàng)造性藝術(shù)的追求噪漾，無論是邊緣的還是非傳統(tǒng)的硼砰。
2）啟動(dòng)任何創(chuàng)業(yè)冒險(xiǎn)或企業(yè)且蓬，無論為盈利或其他目的欣硼。
3）任何飲食或健康計(jì)劃。
4）任何精神進(jìn)步的計(jì)劃恶阴。
5）任何旨在收緊腹肌的活動(dòng)诈胜。
6）旨在克服不良習(xí)慣或成癮的任何課程和計(jì)劃。
7）各種教育冯事。
8）任何政治焦匈、道德或道德勇氣的行為，包括決定改變我們自己的一些不值得的思想或行為模式昵仅。
9）任何企業(yè)或致力于幫助他人的事業(yè)缓熟。
10）任何需要內(nèi)心承諾的行為。決定結(jié)婚摔笤，生孩子够滑，在一段感情中度過難關(guān)。
11）在逆境中采取任何原則立場(chǎng)吕世。
換句話說彰触，有利于長(zhǎng)期成長(zhǎng)、健康和正直的命辖，拒絕能帶來即刻滿足的任何行為况毅》直停或者，換句話說尔许，任何來自我們更高層次而非低級(jí)的行為么鹤。其中任何一個(gè)都會(huì)引起抵抗。
那么：抵抗的特點(diǎn)是什么母债？
