why is resistance baked into reality?

[Windappreciator]

@Leo Gura I thought time, Leo.

[Matthew85]

@Gianna I don't see resistance as a negative thing. It is essential to this unique experience of linear expansion we are exploring. In a similar way to how we impose limitations on ourselves to have something to overcome. It adds a lot more variety to this game. If there was no resistance, we couldn't have the experience of releasing and transcending it. 

Edited August 11, 2021 by Matthew85

[Windappreciator]

@Matthew85 The heck is linear expansion.

[Gianna]

36 minutes ago, Matthew85 said:

@Gianna I don't see resistance as a negative thing. It is essential to this unique experience of linear expansion we are exploring. In a similar way to how we impose limitations on ourselves to have something to overcome. It adds a lot more variety to this game. If there was no resistance, we couldn't have experience of releasing and transcending it. 

I completely agree. It just sucks when you're dealing with it. When you really are trying to create change and you're dealing with the beast that is resistance. Oof. Not easy. 

[Matthew85]

@Gianna Very true. Try to remember this is all just a game. Often we get so immersed in it and everything feels so serious. Also, try reflecting on times in the past when you had fear or resistance about something and once you let it go, everything worked out fine. 

[RickyFitts]

1 hour ago, Gianna said:

I completely agree. It just sucks when you're dealing with it. When you really are trying to create change and you're dealing with the beast that is resistance. Oof. Not easy. 

And then you resist the resistance - that's when it gets really fucking frustrating! 

[JayySur]

Don’t see resistance as a bad thing. Just like how you go to the gym and do resistance training. It may seem bad at first, but you grow from it. 

And for any meditation practitioner, you all know that intuitive feeling of peace you observe when you temporarily let go of your attachments. 

[Zigzag Idiot]

The second force (aka denying or passive force) in the Law of Three as described by Gurdjieff seems to fit as a possibility in this topic, perhaps.

Teachers of The Fourth Way often stress that this second or denying force is not necessarily bad or to be seen strictly as negative. An I axiom of this Law states that going against second force only makes it stronger. As in “That which you resist, persists”. For instance, those who struggle with an addiction get a taste of this phenomena.

 

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The Law of Three is described by Gurdjieff as "the second fundamental cosmic law". This law states that every whole phenomenon is composed of three separate sources, which are Active, Passive and Reconciling or Neutral. This law applies to everything in the universe and humanity, as well as all the structures and processes. The Three Centers in a human, which Gurdjieff said were the Intellectual Centre, the Emotional Centre and the Moving Centre, are an expression of the law of three. Gurdjieff taught his students to think of the law of three forces as essential to transforming the energy of the human being. The process of transformation requires the three actions of affirmation, denial and reconciliation. This law of three separate sources can be considered modern interpretation of early hindu Philosophy of Gunas, We can see this as Chapters 3, 7, 13, 14, 17 and 18 of Bhagavad Gita discuss Guna in their verses. [25]

How the Law of Seven and Law of Three function together is said to be illustrated on the Fourth Way Enneagram, a nine-pointed symbol which is the central glyph of Gurdjieff's system.

Taken from- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Way

[RickyFitts]

@Zigzag Idiot Very interesting, thanks for that!