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 “evildoer” from the source of all the violence and suffering in their situation: their own thinking.
As long as “I” am resisting, the supposed evildoer can reasonably think “I” am the cause of their suffering.
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.
When 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.