Switching from do-something to just-do-only

February 6, 2020
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“Doing something is the traditional understanding of general meditator. We can emphasize on our own breath at the present moment. If we are feeling pain in our body, we can be mindful the suffering of the pain at the present moment. If the mind is unstable, the unstable mind is the object of mindfulness. Our body and mind will be changing at every present moment. Each changing is the object of mindfulness, the action of mindfulness at the present moment is the most important of all. If we are not mindful there will be ignorance and attachment. If we are mindful there will not be ignorance. We should try to be alive with mindfulness at every present moment. If we are not mindful, we are alive with ignorance and attachment. We are what we do. If we are mindful, we are mindfulness. If we not mindful, we are ignorance or wrong view or misunderstanding. We all are responsible to change from ignorance and attachment to mindfulness and detachment. Be alive with mindfulness at every present moment. Mindfulness and detachment are practical not theoretical, therefore it is difficult to understand by reading and thinking. We can understand clearly only through enough practice of mindfulness. Close the eyes gently. No need to do it forcefully. Relax the whole body and mind. Be present at the moment. Be natural. We should try to detach from doing intentionally or deliberately. Try to be doing only. We should emphasize only the actions of mindfulness at the present moment. We don’t need to emphasize the person, the time, the place, the condition we are using now. This is right to do. Mindfulness and detachment are right and good. Ignorance and attachment are wrong and bad. We should avoid ignorance and attachment. We need to keep the practice of mindfulness and attachment. We need to keep the mind to be stable and pure. We don’t need to think of something or someone. We don’t need to think of ourselves or the others. We don’t need to see from the side of ourself or the others. We should try to see from the side of cause and effect of ever impermanent nature. Traditionally or habitually we are able to do something through our physical or verbal or mental action. Now we also try to let go or abandon doing something. We all need to detach from doing something. Myself, I am doing all kinds of good deeds with the understanding of doing only. I am also teaching to the others with the knowledge of doing only. My teaching is also about doing only. In fact it is really difficult to teach about the method of : doing only and not doing only.”

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