When I resist “evil” I am doing two things that are unhelpful:
1) I am believing I actually know good from evil—which is God’s business, not mine—and therefore causing myself to suffer
and
2) I am distracting the one I would call the “evildoer” from the source of all the violence and suffering in their situation: their own thinking.
When “I” resist the supposed “evildoer,” I supply them with all the evidence they need to conclude that “I” am the cause of their suffering. Which of course, they resist. And through all the mutual resistance, war increases and spirals.
That includes when I think I am the problem. When I beat myself up, I’m perpetuating the fiction that it’s “I” that is the problem. And war with myself increases and spirals.
And that war will go on forever until I recognize that the only “problem” I’ve ever had - with myself, with others, with anything anywhere, ever - is just an innocent thought, falsely believed.
When I resist
what doesn’t exist
I prop up a fiction
and make it persist.