"Effortless living is the practice of non-resistance to this moment."
Well, as we learned from my criticism of Chapter 1, there is never any resistance to this moment,
so obviously there cannot be non-resistance to this moment. This may take the form of resistance,
or not, but that's it. Nothing is resisting or not resisting anything else. Another hilariously
messed-up thing about this line is that something called "effortless living" could involve a "practice".
Yeah, in order to live without effort, here's what you need to work on...
Horsecrap! Look: since this is all there is, then just as
there can be no resistance because there's nothing to do the resisting, there can be no effort
because there's nothing to exert it. This moment may appear as a concept of a person or thing
exerting effort over another thing, or "life", or whatever, but that is simply what form this, the present moment --
all there is -- has taken. This may appear as "effort", but that's just an appearance, and an
appearance that appeared by itself. Effortlessly.
"To live effortlessly is not to live without action." Screw that: Every action is effortless, there is nothing
but effortless living, and there's nothing you can do or not do about it, because there's nobody there to do
or not do it. No effort has
ever been exerted by anything upon what is in the history of the universe, because there is only what is.
Any sense of effort by something or someone is an illusion, a play of light.
What is just becomes whatever it wants, all by itself.
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