Doing Nothing
By Michael Erlewine
There is nothing to say, and so it either goes without saying or you can say it again. I’m in the ‘you can say it again’ camp and have always been there. I want to share dharma experience.
And I am most comfortable just there, resting in the nature of the mind. It’s like no other activity I know, quiet, with no thought, at peace, and with no sense of time.
Non-meditation is a process of deconstructing Samsara by first of all not contributing to it, being able to not make it worse, which is done by being distracted from our usual distraction, actually ignoring Samsara and embracing not the shadows but the light of the dharma. No karma is made in non-dual meditation because it is not meditation at all. It is non-meditation.
Yes, it’s bold to dare it at all, but once done, irrevocable, in like Flynn. And once tasted, no choice. There’s no food to be eaten and nothing to be done. This poem I wrote is clear enough.
MEDITATION IS NOTHING
The books say:
Seek a place of solitude,
And meditate,
But it’s just the other way round.
When meditation,
Naturally occurs,
There is no place in the world,
That you feel comfortable,
Try as you might.
Not here or there,
Not doing this or doing that.
Only nothing feels right.
You just want to hold real still,
Let the mind rest,
And then park yourself,
Somewhere out of the way,
Like on a cushion,
Or
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In a place of solitude,
Because:
Nothing is going on.
Note: What can I say? True meditation is not difficult because it’s not meditation. It’s non-meditation, nothing at all.
I can’t find any food I want to eat, or anything I want to do. The only place where I feel comfortable is right here, sitting in non-meditation. It’s not a room or a place around the house, but rather invoking Insight Meditation and immersing myself within it.
The hunger was never for food, not for something to do, but for the luminous clarity of immersive non-meditation.
These are all words. And words cannot reveal, but only point at or toward. Words are not enough.
Whether here at home or out in nature, the sacred space is not a place we can find, but an inside in which we can rest.
It is freedom from constraint, like a tube we can slide into, away from distraction, like a soundproof room without a sound.
We are free to see nothing at all and not be seen.
No one nowhere.
[Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]
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May those without it now create it,
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And may it ever grow and flourish.”
