Do Nothing Technique

[123456789]

Does the do nothing technique actually work? I mean, it looks way too simple.

[Beam]

Do nothing and you will get nothing

Put your mind into focus will move your body into action
 For clarity i will add if you stay in your house all day everyday you will get nothing

[123456789]

So I guess you haven't tried this technique?

[Beam]

Oh I tried it , it does not work.

focus on the other hand works

[123456789]

@Beam May I ask how long have you practiced it?

[Beam]

You are excelling at it right now , perhaps this technique is just what you need.

[Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj]

It sure as hell works. I have been dropping into samadhi like every evening with do nothing/no manipulation lately. I would reccoment not only doing a technique the like only requires surrender but combining it with a focused technique like self inquiry aswell.

[cirkussmile]

Self inquiry is something?

[Prabhaker]

9 hours ago, mr lenny said:

Does the do nothing technique actually work?

It depends on the individual, it works on the person who is not waiting for results. How it can be ‘do nothing technique’ if you are looking for some results instead of doing nothing? You have missed the whole point!

It is very difficult to sit silently; thoughts go on coming. So let them come! Don't fight with thoughts and you will not need any energy. Just let them come ― what can you do? Clouds come and clouds go; let the thoughts come and let them go whenever they want to go. Don't be on guard, and don't be in a certain attitude that thoughts should come or. should not come ― don't be judgmental. Let them come, and let them go whenever they want. You be utterly empty. Thoughts will pass, they will come and go, and slowly, slowly you will see that you remain unaffected by their coming and going. And when you are unaffected by their coming and going, they start disappearing, they evaporate... Not by your effort, but by your cool, calm emptiness, your relaxed state.

[Prabhaker]

If you are a beginner, unless you go through great catharsis you will have to pass through many clouds. It will be tiring, and you may be so impatient that you may turn back into the world. In Buddha's time it was not so needed because people were not so repressed. People were natural, people lived primitive live -- uncivilized, spontaneous lives.

Edited September 5, 2016 by Prabhaker

[123456789]

@Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj Thanks for the advice!

[Capethaz]

@mr lenny Yes, it does work and WITH TIME it will ride you all the way to Classical Enlightenment.

[123456789]

@Capethaz Thanks for the advice!

[MIARIVEL]

@mr lenny I agree with Beam. If you do nothing then you will get nothing. 

 

[Prabhaker]

@mr lenny @MIA.RIVEL

The Zen people say just sit, don’t do anything. The most difficult thing in the world is just to sit doing nothing. But once you have the knack of it, if you can go on sitting for a few months doing nothing for a few hours every day, slowly, slowly, many things will happen. You will feel sleepy, you will dream. Many thoughts will crowd your mind, many things. The mind will say, ‘Why are you wasting your time? You could have earned a little money. At least you could have gone to a film, entertained yourself, or you could have relaxed & gossiped. You could have watched TV or listened to the radio or at least you could have read the newspaper you have not seen. Why are you wasting your time?’ mind will give you a thousand & one arguments, but if you just go on listening without being bothered by the mind....it will do all kinds of tricks; it will hallucinate, it will dream, it will become sleepy. It will do all that is possible to drag you out of sitting. But if you go on, if you persevere, one day the sun rises. One day it happens, you are not feeling sleepy, the mind has become tired of you, is fed up with you, has dropped the idea that you can be trapped, is simply finished with you! There is no sleep, no hallucination, no dream, no thought. You are simply sitting there, doing nothing....& all is silence & all is peace & all is bliss.

[123456789]

@Prabhaker Basically enlightenment?

[Dodo]

11 hours ago, MIA.RIVEL said:

@mr lenny I agree with Beam. If you do nothing then you will get nothing. 

 

Thats like the whole thing we trying to get sneaky right answers

Edited September 7, 2016 by Dodoster