The trouble is, we have conditioned ourselves over many, many lifetimes – including this one – to keep busy doing things, instead of being inactive. But you don’t have to do. You can respond to things, but you don’t have to go seeking to do things. It is totally habitual. There is nothing there. The mind has been trained to be busy, that’s all. We have to untrain ourselves. But at the same time, you don’t do nothing. You are aware – that is doing something. Even if you seem to be sitting doing nothing, your eyes can be seeing and you are conscious of what you see; your ears are hearing and
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