the path of least resistance

the spiritual path is by definition the path of least resistance, non-doing, effortlessness, etc etc.... and it is not hard.

It requires a bit of dedication but it is absolutely NOT "hard work". Working long hours in a job which we hate is hard work.

Spiritual development is the opposite, it is full of things which SEEM hard or scary, but are actually easy. 

Like telling someone we don't want to see them, or like stepping on stage - seems hard, difficult, but then it's actually very easy, and frees us.

If it seems like the path is a constant struggle - like hard work, fighting an uphill battle to get somewhere... then we have got things twisted... this is not the "spiritual bit".

If we feel our surrender as an ongoing exchange of painful effort for freedom, then this a sign that we are confusing surrender with resistance.

We are so conditioned to do the hard painful familiar thing rather than the easy scary thing and it is this whole way of being that needs to be surrendered... this SEEMS hard and scary :)