Do not resist evil

[APeacefulWarrior]

I thought you had meant it in the idea of not resisting evil thoughts as to allow balance of thoughts and a fuller exploration of the mind. So for example, pacifism can be balanced with it's opposite thought, this does not mean you will find yourself to seek the opposite but will come to understand it in others through internalizing it within yourself.

I'd suggest some more modern parallels could also be drawn to so-called "noise-cancelling" headphones. The basic idea behind them is that for every sound, there is an equal-and-opposite anti-sound which cancels out the sound waves. This short vid has a nice illustration of them:



I tend to think THIS is closer to what Ra is talking about. When someone seeking "higher" mental balance has an impulse to act, Impulse A, they should seek to discover Impulse Anti-A which would cancel out the original impulse, leaving all energy conserved and -critically- WITHOUT leaving behind feelings of frustration, incompleteness, and soforth. Because those distortions can easily take on their own life and create their own problems.

eg, Someone who really wants a cookie, but is on a diet, then obsesses over the cookie they cannot have and this makes them grumpy. Whereas if they could discover the energetic impulse inspiring that desire for a cookie, they could cancel out the impulse cleanly, and leave stillness rather than frustration in its wake.

I also see that advice as relating to the Daoist concept of "Wu-Wei" which translates as something like "non-action" or "action without action" or "action without effort." The basic idea being that one who is truly at unity with both themselves and the outside world could follow their most natural impulses without the slightest thought or resistance, and effortlessly be harmonious with the events around them. Ra's suggestions for becoming unswayable seem like they would lead directly to a Wu-Wei state of being, if successfully achieved.