How resistance creates suffering
“As you become more conscious, you recognize that you are responsible for your suffering. It’s not the other, it’s not the world, it’s you that creates it through your resistance.”
In higher consciousness you realise that no one outside of you can make you suffer, for every contraction arises from your own resistance to what is. The world moves as it must, people speak and act as they do, but suffering begins the instant you fight reality, and it ends the moment you stop.
The great shift of consciousness begins with the simple recognition that if you are responsible for your pain, you are also capable of ending it. Responsibility allows liberation, because when blame disappears, power returns home, and awareness stands free of victimhood.
The habit of resistance runs deep, woven into your nervous system through lifetimes of self-protection, yet it is only through meeting that habit with awareness that transformation becomes possible. When contraction is seen without justification, it begins to dissolve, and what remains is openness, spacious, silent and at peace.
Pain will always be a part of being human, but suffering is not inevitable. Pain belongs to the body, while resistance belongs to the mind. When you no longer resist, pain becomes an experience that passes through awareness like wind through a window, leaving no trace behind.
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The beauty of unconditional love
“The way that heart affects the mind is so beautiful that the mind, no matter whose mind it is, just wants to take care of everybody and everything.”
Most of humanity still needs morality, for without awakening to love, rules act as the scaffolding that keeps society upright, protecting people from our animal impulses of greed and harm. Yet when the heart awakens, those rules fall away naturally, because love itself becomes the law, and care arises without instruction.
The awakened heart softens the mind, filling it with compassion so vast that no commandment or precept is needed, for love does not need to be told what is right. It sees no benefit in harm, no joy in cruelty, only the natural impulse to nurture, to protect, and to serve life.
In the light of the heart, defensiveness loses its meaning, for when openness replaces fear, love flows effortlessly in all directions. What once required moral effort becomes spontaneous grace, and you begin to live from compassion and kindness, not obligation.
Unconditional love is not a discipline of behaviour but a state of being, a part of reality that becomes perceived when resistance ends. The more undefended you become, the more this love pours through you, quiet, unstoppable and healing.
Why we defend ourselves from love
“Most humans are dangerous. Dangerous in what they do and dangerous in what they say. So, there’s a natural defence system inside all adults against other human beings.”
The reason love feels rare in the world is that most people live defended, for human beings have learned through pain to protect themselves from one another. Our species has survived through competition and fear, that ancient programming still whispers within us to close, to guard, to control.
The heart cannot bloom where fear rules, for defensiveness is the wall that keeps love from entering. Every moment of closure may seem to protect you from pain, yet it also shuts out beauty, and in this way, the very mechanisms built to preserve life end up suffocating it.
The practice of a spiritual aspirant is therefore the practice of surrender, the daily willingness to accept life as it is rather than as the mind demands. Through this surrender, awareness rises beyond survival, and love appears in the openness that is there.
The mind resists surrender because it fears losing control, yet only in letting go does reality appear. To live undefended is to trust existence completely, and in that trust the heart begins to awaken.
Rising above the animal nature
“Those who raise their consciousness levels above survival have gone against their own primal nature and won.”
To surrender and to accept goes directly against the conditioning of the mind, for survival has taught us to resist, to defend, and to fight what threatens us. Yet consciousness evolves precisely through this reversal, through choosing openness where fear demands closure.
Rising above the animal nature requires practice, not belief, for no single act of surrender can undo centuries of conditioning. It takes thousands upon thousands of small moments of awareness to rewire the mind toward peace, until acceptance becomes as natural as defence once was.
Every moment of surrender weakens the hold of the old program and every acceptance opens the heart a little wider. This practice is not easy, but it is profoundly beautiful, for in each letting go, the light of love shines brighter through the cracks of the old armour.
The one who persists in this practice gradually finds that equanimity replaces reaction, and peace replaces drama. When consciousness stabilises beyond survival, it begins to live from stillness, and stillness reveals the way of the heart.
The game of zero
“Zero was where I was totally open and totally at ease and totally relaxed inside. Anything that moved me away from that was not zero.”
When Vishrant first began to live this teaching he created a game for himself called the Game of Zero, a simple yet profound way to track how open he was through daily life. Zero was complete openness, total ease, the effortless peace of being undefended, and anything that moved him away from that centre was a sign that he had contracted again.
Life constantly offered opportunities to play, for as a husband, a father, and a man in the world, there were endless chances to be triggered. Each reaction revealed the belief systems that supported his resistance, and so the game became a laboratory for freedom, a daily practice of returning to zero no matter what arose.
Whenever he found contraction, he looked for the thought that caused it, and then began to place doubt into that thought, questioning its truth until it lost power. Over time, he learned that most beliefs were supported by other beliefs, a web of unconscious assumptions holding each other in place, and each had to be undone in turn.
This practice was not about suppressing feelings but about dissolving the stories that create emotional reactions, and as those stories fell away, peace became more and more his natural state. To win the Game of Zero was to stay open no matter what happened.
Doubt: the secret to dissolving beliefs
“Putting doubt into any belief system disengages it. It disempowers it.”
Beliefs hold the structure of the ego in place, for every “should” and “should not” strengthens the sense of separation between self and life. To question these beliefs is to take the power back from the mind, for doubt is the quiet sword that cuts through illusion.
When Vishrant examined the belief that he should never be betrayed, he found no real truth behind it, for human beings betray, reject, and abandon, and that too is life unfolding. In the vast picture of existence, who are we to say that betrayal should not happen, when we cannot see the whole?
By doubting his own righteousness, he found freedom, for the moment he admitted that he did not know, the belief lost its hold, and contraction stopped. Where once there would have been anger or hurt, there was now only understanding, the simple clarity that everything moves as it must.
Doubt dissolves the beliefs that cause resistance, and dissolving resistance removes suffering, leaving awareness, silent and free. In this way, even betrayal becomes grace, for it teaches the art of letting go.
The way of the heart
“If you resist pain, you suffer. If you don’t resist pain, you just have pain.”
Pain is inevitable in human life, but suffering is optional, for suffering arises not from what happens but from how you meet it. Resistance puts a negative story to pain, and that story turns facts into drama, but when pain is met with openness, it loses its sting and passes through without leaving a scar.
To end suffering, you must stop fighting the world, stop contracting against experience, and stop blaming anyone for what arises within you. The path is simple but not easy, for it requires constant practice, the steady training of the mind toward openness until non-resistance becomes your natural state.
Old patterns are hardwired, repeating unconsciously until awareness interrupts them again and again. Through the discipline of practice, the mind learns new habits, the default of acceptance, the habit of stillness, of equanimity, and when these become stable, consciousness soars.
Freedom does not happen by chance; it happens through diligence, through the daily willingness to remain open when the world would close you. Come to Satsang with Vishrant, where the invitation is simple, to live the way of zero, to dissolve the beliefs that bind you, and to discover the quiet joy of a life without resistance.
