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:

1. The pursuit of any calling in writing, painting, music, film, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional.
2. The launching of any entrepreneurial venture or enterprise, for profit or otherwise.
3. Any diet or health regimen.
4. Any program of spiritual advancement.
5. Any activity whose aim is tighter abdominals.
6. Any course or program designed to overcome an unwholesome habit or addiction.
7. Education of every kind.
8. 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.
9. The undertaking of any enterprise or endeavor whose aim is to help others.
10. 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.
11. 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？