funkychunkymonkey

Desire for nothing

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I feel like I wanna sorta just sit there. Not even meditate or zazen, just sorta exist. I changed my career back to more passive security like luxury retail as opposed to more hands on stuff like asset protection. I found Leo’s video on true spirituality amazing and I feel like maybe I’m walking into a a trap of not wanting to do anything and just sit. My monk friend he calls himself a lazy monk thats why he wanted to become a monk. I used to wanna be a monk but idk how I feel about being locked into one way, I sorta feel like playing monk instead xD I admit sometimes if I do zazen at home I’ll wear my practice uniform. Do you guys think this attitude of do nothing sorta giving zen vibes and tao vibes is a trap? I don’t feel much ambition anymore I achieved my dreams now with my health on the decline I sorta just wanna chill. If anyone has experience in this way of being and knows some potential pitfalls or maybe this is a pitfall itself, idk, I’m no spiritual genius I think I’m under developed as a matter of fact of genuine spirituality whatever that means, if it’s even a real thing idk. 

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You say you've got all your practical life handled and you don't have ambition..then I see no problem from the absolute perspective you can just sit and exist . It might be a trap if someone is justifying his laziness and lack of taking action by adopting the attitude of just sitting and doing nothing .I do want to do that sometimes but obviously NOT all the time because we are programed to seek and do stuff ..but we know that at the end there is nothing but being .


 "When you get very serious about truth you accept your life situation exactly as it is. So much so that you aren't childishly sitting around wishing it were otherwise.If you were confined to a wheelchair you would just accept it as how reality is. Just as you now just accept that you are not a bird who can fly."

-Leo Gura. 

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44 minutes ago, Someone here said:

You say you've got all your practical life handled and you don't have ambition..then I see no problem from the absolute perspective you can just sit and exist . It might be a trap if someone is justifying his laziness and lack of taking action by adopting the attitude of just sitting and doing nothing .I do want to do that sometimes but obviously NOT all the time because we are programed to seek and do stuff ..but we know that at the end there is nothing but being .

Sometimes it's good to ignore this and do stuff too.  

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Man the more I develop my spiritual practice the more my body wants to move, wiggle. Flow.

There is no resistance. Body moves.

Stillness and movement are just one thing now.

Nothing is everything.

Both. And neither. 

Edited by Natasha Tori Maru

It is far easier to fool someone, than to convince them they have been fooled.

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