see the stars that you are looking back in time
millions of years. The past is present now and here.
Then go and sit or meditate lying down. Let this or
any time you practice be your time for letting go of all
doing, for shirting into the being mode, in which you
simply dwell in stillness and mindfulness, attending to
the moment-to-moment unfolding of the present,
adding nothing, subtracting nothing, affirming that
"This is it."
The Non-Doing Paradox
The flavor and the sheer joy of non-doing are difficult
for Americans to grasp because our culture places so
much value on doing and on progress. Even our
leisure tends to be busy and mindless. The joy of
non-doing is that nothing else needs to happen for
this moment to be complete. The wisdom in it, and
the equanimity that comes out of it, lie in knowing that
something else surely will.
When Thoreau says, "it was morning, and lo, now it is
evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished,"
this is waving a red flag in front of a bull for go-