Trusting Life Instead of Resisting Life

A man asks how to live with trust in life rather than resistance to it.

This video clip is from Rupert's Seven Day Retreat at the Garrison Institute in Spring 2019. To watch the full video, please visit the link below.

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[mouthearnose]

From 3:00 onwards- "At any decision or situation, try your best to respond to from a place of love and intelligence, if you're doing that, that is all you can do. Even if down the line you realize that the choice you made might not have been the most optimal... it doesn't matter because at that time you were doing your best to make the decision come from a place of love and intelligence, and the purity of that intention keeps you safe. Safe from guilt, sorrow, shame, sorrow etc, because at the moment you acted through love and intelligence, to the best of your ability."

[innerlight]

1.23:" it's appropriate to resist some circumstances, it is loving and intelligent to say no, to some people or to some situations.."
Loved it!ॐ ॐ ❤

[RupaliChaudhry]

Wonderful, Rupert Sir ! So happy to be in your company ! 🙏🌺🌸🏵🙋

[tmneaves]

Thank you so much. I needed to hear this, to forgive myself for making what I call a bad decision even though at the time it was made with love.

[karenelton]

Such valuable information in just 4 min. Namaste💜

[mohdshahnawaz]

Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information Rupert. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺❤😀

[southernload]

Excellent path to perfect peace! Thanks

[andrewstoner]

Rupert....
In this video clip you align a ‘No’ with resistance....
Surely this ‘No’ is really a huge ‘Yes’ that honours ones heart and its intelligence.
It honours a truth....
So in fact, it cannot be resistance.
More like it is trust.

[krishnagondhea]

Because we are resisting what we don’t want. And it’s hard to stop resisting what you don’t want.

[smileifyoudontexist]

Just measure the distance from your head to your heart. Thats the distance to the "other shore".
"If you wanna be Phoenixed ! ! ! Come and be Parked"

[Misslotusification]

"Don't inhibit your action with pseudo non-dual reasoning 'Oh this is just resistance to what is, consciousness doesn't care about anything' that's just the separate self" reacting therefore I have to accept or agree with everything as it is. "Resistance at a relative level is absolutely necessary. The question is: What is this resistance motivated by? Is it motivated by the fears, the desires, the neuroses, the anxieties of a separate self or is it motivated by love and intelligence? If it's motivated by love and intelligence, then follow the resistance."
Rupert Spira in a video called The Sacred Outrage.

[annemurphy]

I resisted the horrific abuse my adoptive family heaped upon me with all of my might. They were incredibly sick, dysfunctional and unconscious. They were heavy into a Freemason cult and ran a child trafficking ring and I was trafficked from age 2 into my 20's and endured the kinds of human evils many people wouldn't believe. I survived by my psyche splitting into many in order to "protect". I had no way out and couldn't fight them off so "Love" saved me by creating D.I.D. Now we, meaning all the parts of our D.I.D system, are coming back together, integrating, which is also from Love. We can also see that none of it was personal but that took a very long time and was a very challenging process to get to this realization. The ones who were so abusive are Love too, but forgot. There is nobody to blame because nobody was home. Their conditioning did these things. I think of it as kind of like a dog that has rabies. A virus takes over the dog and it becomes very dangerous and you need to get away. Very strange and evil behaviour arises from not knowing who we all are.

[clavarx]

When he says "its appropriate to resist some circumstances" I think he went a little too far in being sympathetic with the person asking the question. You can say no from a place of non resistance.

For example: You are in a park and then starts raining. It is foolish to say "oh I wont resist the rain, I will do nothing about it" and staying there getting all wet is silly, is a action from the separate self.

Always act from a place of non resistance, but that doesn't mean to stay passive and don't act. It is simply means that you will not waste energy on getting angry or sad about things. You simply don't care that much because you acknowledged whatever is happening as valid.

Resistance = invalidating reality. Its that simple.

[sumokem]

Somehow, we can sense if Love is moving us to act. But how to know if Intelligence is moving us to action? What are good examples of such times? Thanks for the responses.

[antihero]

So basically for every action we take we're acting out in love or fear

[haunteddeandollsuk]

i wish rupert would do more life after death type videos and consciousness lives on.

[davidsweeney]

I wish I could've asked if its ok to 'go with the flow'?

[kaikkk]

If you act from love and intelligence you trust...Trust is another word for love

[TheJooberjones]

The questioner is asking the value of trust from the perspective of doubt. It doesnt work that way, “you” has to burn completely in the fire of meditation, and then trust is a natural result. From where he is now, he cant trust, because its a mental effort should i or shouldnt i. This kind of analysis does not arise when the ego is dissolved, trust and surrender are natural byproducts.

[kwixotic]

I suppose one could also say that whatever action was taken as a reaction to something, though appearing as a mistake really wasn't because in the overall scheme of things, there really are no mistakes. There's of course an ego based judgement of something as "mistaken" but if one subscribes to the notion of destiny w/o there being doership, then whatever occurred had to have occurred. But that doesn't absolve one of responsibility in the Relative sense either.