Am I Supposed To Be Present/aware During "do Nothing?"

[Toby]

Being aware and doing nothing is the same. So you really can't "do" one without "doing" the other.

[Whoami3]

4 minutes ago, Toby said:

Being aware and doing nothing is the same. So you really can't "do" one without "doing" the other.

I think you can! I experienced it many times. I was just sitting, doing nothing. I was lost in thoughts and I was not aware of that.

[Shin]

If you're lost in thoughts you're not doing the do nothing method, you're just daydreaming.

[Max_V]

@ShinBut if you surrender control like in the do nothing technique, isn’t getting lost in thoughts inevitable?

[Shin]

11 minutes ago, Max_V said:

@ShinBut if you surrender control like in the do nothing technique, isn’t getting lost in thoughts inevitable?

You can be aware of daydreaming, that's the whole point of this technique.
You let your mind loose, you but you stay conscious during that time.

Edited November 14, 2017 by Shin

[Max_V]

@Shin Do you recommend the Do Nothing technique? I’ve been meditating on the breath for a while now  

 

[Shin]

3 minutes ago, Max_V said:

@Shin Do you recommend the Do Nothing technique? I’ve been meditating on the breath for a while now  

 

From my point of view, it doesn't matter what meditation you pratice.
They are all about putting you in the present moment, and once you are familliar with that, you don't need a "method" anymore, you just live like that.

[Leo Gura]

On 11/12/2017 at 5:05 AM, bazera said:

In your meditation for beginner's video you said that even if you sit for 20 minutes and think about sex or something, you can consider that as meditation because what counts as meditation is that you sat down and had an intention to be aware. You also said that it's not in our control to be aware or not. 

Now you say that if you are not being aware, you are not meditating. 

Isn't there a contradiction? 

That's the difference between meditation for beginners and non-beginners

At first you want to focus on just building the habit without judging yourself too much. Then you want to refine it. The first few years of meditation are gonna be very rocky. The key there is to not psyche yourself out of it.

[pfletcha]

Does anybody else get the paradoxical experience of it being significantly harder to get thoughts going than normal during "do nothing?" It blows my mind, no pun intended.

[Viking]

When I do do nothing , because of the awareness, thoughts get kind of silenced. I cant form complicated thought when the awareness is there.  when im not aware, there can be daydreaming and sometimes something jumps in the middle of the daydreaming and I become aware of the thoughts and they continue but on a non complicated way, and usually just stop.

It seems to me like daydreaming and being aware cant be there at the same time. Am I doing it right?

[Shin]

6 hours ago, Ilya said:

When I do do nothing , because of the awareness, thoughts get kind of silenced. I cant form complicated thought when the awareness is there.  when im not aware, there can be daydreaming and sometimes something jumps in the middle of the daydreaming and I become aware of the thoughts and they continue but on a non complicated way, and usually just stop.

It seems to me like daydreaming and being aware cant be there at the same time. Am I doing it right?

Of course it can, awareness is always there, it's just not aware of itself.

If you can't be aware of daydreaming, it may be because you're not conscious enough to do the do nothing meditation.
I would say it's not a meditation for newbie, but I still feel newbie myself, so maybe it has more to do with understanding exactly what you have to do.

After all people seek for decades, when their teachers tells them in 1000 differents ways to just be present, so everything can seem complicated I guess  

[Martin123]

22 hours ago, Shin said:

you're not doing the do nothing method

u wat...