You'd better do some sports

In former times

Isn't that great?

Profound meditation

Doing nothing

"Just sitting, doing nothing , spring comes and the grass grows". (A zen saying) 

My cat is my guru when it's about doing nothing. He is able to just sit on the grass without doing anything. 

My cat  relativizes often my own striving, he relativizes the idea of 'having to do something', the idea of having to make progress in life. Because he is able to just sit there. 

This saying: " just sitting, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass is growing of its own" , touches me because of its poëtic and simple beauty of the words. But I also choose this saying because it ecpresses a deep truth for me. Namely that if you do something only out of will-power,  it will exhaust you and brings you nothing.

That is also the case with meditating.

The mystic of meditating for me is 'doing nothing'. I discover more and more that it is not necessary to dictate a discipline on myself. 

For me 'doing nothing' means that I don't put anything outside of me anymore. Also not the things that I disapprove of in myself. 

It means that I can discover my monkey-mind without wanting to change that immediately. It means to connect to my body as was it the body from someone who I love very, very much. 

"Just sitting, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass is growing of its own" is a path of meditating in which I become conscious through experience.

It is not a path of pushing (out of will-power). It is not about learning to let go. It is also not about learning to be more mindfull. Or learning to concentrate more. It is about falling in a deep awareness of the action itself. Falling in a deep awareness of 'doing nothing' itself. 

I don't know if my cat has this deep awareness when he sits in the grass. Probably you need a human consciousness for that.  But still: he is my guru when it's about 'doing nothing'.

Not enlightened?

Buddhist in jail

Sitting or walking?

Mindfullness