The Power of Non-Resistance

It does not have to go my way. It does not have to go your way. There is a way of win­ning by let­ting things take their nat­ural course. This is the wis­dom of the greats that went before us. They did not fight impos­si­ble bat­tles of ego. Instead, they went with the flow of the social momen­tum. The way they changed every­thing was by the style in which they went along.
Jesus encour­aged peo­ple to “turn the other cheek” when being struck. The non-resistance of the one being struck trumps the one doing the strik­ing. It is more pow­er­ful not to strike back. Jesus allowed oth­ers to cru­cify him. By doing so, he won. His win­ning was in his style. He died with dig­nity and honor, while being treated as a com­mon crim­i­nal.
We live in a world that clam­ors for its “rights” to social priv­i­leges. With lawyers in tow, many make their way through the world as vic­tims demand­ing their due. They have their day in court, but dis­cover that they are losers for hav­ing won. In the para­dox of spir­i­tu­al­ity, los­ing is far bet­ter. It is the ego that has to win, not the spirit. The spirit is con­tent to tran­scend the entire sit­u­a­tion. It soars above the petty.
Jesus illus­trated this by say­ing, “If some­one sues you for your outer gar­ment, give him your inner one too.” You win by not being attached to win­ning. You rise above the petty greed of the other per­son or some insti­tu­tion. They think hav­ing their way is supe­rior, but it is vastly infe­rior in the spir­i­tual realm. Defeat­ing the soul to win is the ulti­mate loss.