Don't mistake motion for movement. Just because we are flailing our arms in the water we are not necessarily swimming.

Direction, the timed pause, the steadiness and fullness of breath, intentional co-ordination, the limbs to the mind, a synchronicity with the eyes, the gaze, the feedback of the body, the purpose... so much takes place that solidifies that one step forward.

Allow. So that when you do move, it carries all of you with it.

#miindfulness #breath #miindfulaction #nondoing

Listen to the obstacle.
Understand the resistance.
Overworking something can render it as ineffective as underworking it. Like cake batter or bread dough.

The proof is an allowing. A period of rest in which the organic chemistry of the process is allowed its own time to unfold.

#Action is not always purposeful if it does not understand the process in which it acts and what it contributes to it. When this is comprehended, you can provide as much action as is required.

#nondoing #mindfulness

sometimes the harder you push the less you're able to do.

here, be still. stop doing.

this is because either you have not understood the direction of the action required, or its plane.

You could be pushing what you need to pull. Many things get done tangibly only when they get done intangibly. When the thought and intention are not aligned, or clear, the action runs ahead.

Wait. Sit with. Have patience for. Allow yourself to catch up with yourself

#nondoing #mindfulness #mindbodyspirit

Too many people struggle with #meditation because they imagine it to be a thing one has to do.

When in fact it is #nondoing. It is not even a struggle against the mind. It is not a struggle against the environment. Where there is struggle there is no meditation. It is allowing.

As is, we are.

As #Dogen says, meditation is the universe breathing through you.

#mindfulness #zazen #zen #shamata #buddhism #stillness

無 #mu /# wu

Simplified: 无

Non presence

a race for superiority is never ending. when we run the other way, towards #nothingness, the 無, the wu, we go back to the basics, the zero. at zero, we are one. equality is possible when I am #nothing. this is the principle of #minimalism. a simplification of existence comes from #universality. the radical of 無 is fire. #nondoing is active, not passive. to exist through the subtle is to move out of the gross, into the #intangible.

#mindfulness #zen