BOOK ONE RESISTANCE Defining the Enemy
The enemy is a very good teacher. —the Dalai Lama
敌人是非常好的老师。
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?
生词：
entrepreneurial venture：创业冒险
enterprise：企业
unwholesome：不健康的
undertaking：事业
entail：需要
weather a rocky patch in a relationship：在一段感情中度过难关
adversity：逆境
以下是最常引起抵抗的那些活动的清单，没有先后顺序：
1）对写作、绘画、音乐、电影、舞蹈等任何创造性艺术的追求，无论是边缘的还是非传统的。
2）启动任何创业冒险或企业，无论为盈利或其他目的。
3）任何饮食或健康计划。
4）任何精神进步的计划。
5）任何旨在收紧腹肌的活动。
6）旨在克服不良习惯或成瘾的任何课程和计划。
7）各种教育。
8）任何政治、道德或道德勇气的行为，包括决定改变我们自己的一些不值得的思想或行为模式。
9）任何企业或致力于帮助他人的事业。
10）任何需要内心承诺的行为。决定结婚，生孩子，在一段感情中度过难关。
11）在逆境中采取任何原则立场。
换句话说，有利于长期成长、健康和正直的，拒绝能带来即刻满足的任何行为。或者，换句话说，任何来自我们更高层次而非低级的行为。其中任何一个都会引起抵抗。
那么：抵抗的特点是什么？
