27. The Law of No-Thingness
This too is one of my favorites, because on the surface it seems to be a paradox: how can more be accomplished by doing nothing?
Too much time is spent rushing around, panicking and reacting, as opposed to being still, calm, planning, and responding. How can long-term (or even short-term) accomplishments exist without a firm foundation? This firm foundation is built on having a still, peaceful, calm mind. From out of this calm mind can now be born greater things, for there are no longer distractions, panic, judgment, and anxiety to interfere and/or influence decisions and perspectives. Symbolically we can say, then, that “out of the ‘no-thing’ (the “no-thingness”) comes ‘something’.”
Zen Buddhism states that the “no-thing” is the “answer”, or where and what you want to accomplish (peace/Higher Mind). We can take this a little further by saying that by having a “blank slate”, we can start from “square one” so to speak, in other words, if we can come from a place of non-judgment, not remembering potentially judgmental events, etc., then we can more purely create, or allow creative ideas, inspiration, and more focused thought to come forth. Similar to keeping the “mind-shaft” clear of any emotional/mental “clogs” so that divine-mind can rise up to the surface-level as inspiration, creativity, even love and compassion! In a way, the “no-thingness” is everything: without a peaceful, blank mind, we can’t expect ourselves to function in a spiritual, mental, and physically constructive way. Too many hindrances, or “monkey-chatter”.
You’re living the Law of No-Thingness when you are calm, peaceful, and choose to sit rather than run.
“…what is seen was not made out of the things that are visible.”-Hebrews 11:3
“Do nothing and all will be well.”-Zen saying
“Out of the ‘no-way’ and the ‘no-thing’ will come ‘some-thing’.”-Anonymous
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Let’s take the sacred breath in, releasing with a sound. Gently closing our eyes, we turn inward now, to the very centre and nucleus of our own mind, soul, and spirit, leaning back; relaxing, breathing. We look up toward our third-eye or brow region of our head. We unify now with the light within, identifying with it, merging and melting into it. We feel the peace, the love, the joy, the harmony, the Higher Intelligence, the Wisdom that we are. Right here and right now, in the peaceful calm that we exist in and as, we feel whole. We feel complete.
We affirm and we declare that whenever a crisis arises, we will simply stop and take the sacred breath in, releasing it. This crisis will be as a trigger for us to simply stop, and to sit. To feel the calm and wholeness we feel know; to know who and what we truly are: a perfect manifestation of Perfection Itself: we cannot, have not, and will never make a mistake or mis-step! We carry no worry and no guilt about decisions made previously, for although they did not seem to work out the way we would have liked them to, we trust completely God’s plan is perfect, which is always working through us as us.
We give thanks for this knowing, and we release it, letting it be now and forever more,
And So It Is!
Amen.
This too is one of my favorites, because on the surface it seems to be a paradox: how can more be accomplished by doing nothing?
Too much time is spent rushing around, panicking and reacting, as opposed to being still, calm, planning, and responding. How can long-term (or even short-term) accomplishments exist without a firm foundation? This firm foundation is built on having a still, peaceful, calm mind. From out of this calm mind can now be born greater things, for there are no longer distractions, panic, judgment, and anxiety to interfere and/or influence decisions and perspectives. Symbolically we can say, then, that “out of the ‘no-thing’ (the “no-thingness”) comes ‘something’.”
Zen Buddhism states that the “no-thing” is the “answer”, or where and what you want to accomplish (peace/Higher Mind). We can take this a little further by saying that by having a “blank slate”, we can start from “square one” so to speak, in other words, if we can come from a place of non-judgment, not remembering potentially judgmental events, etc., then we can more purely create, or allow creative ideas, inspiration, and more focused thought to come forth. Similar to keeping the “mind-shaft” clear of any emotional/mental “clogs” so that divine-mind can rise up to the surface-level as inspiration, creativity, even love and compassion! In a way, the “no-thingness” is everything: without a peaceful, blank mind, we can’t expect ourselves to function in a spiritual, mental, and physically constructive way. Too many hindrances, or “monkey-chatter”.
You’re living the Law of No-Thingness when you are calm, peaceful, and choose to sit rather than run.
“…what is seen was not made out of the things that are visible.”-Hebrews 11:3
“Do nothing and all will be well.”-Zen saying
“Out of the ‘no-way’ and the ‘no-thing’ will come ‘some-thing’.”-Anonymous
Scientific-Treatment/Affirmative-Prayer/Spiritual/Meditative Mind-Treatment
Let’s take the sacred breath in, releasing with a sound. Gently closing our eyes, we turn inward now, to the very centre and nucleus of our own mind, soul, and spirit, leaning back; relaxing, breathing. We look up toward our third-eye or brow region of our head. We unify now with the light within, identifying with it, merging and melting into it. We feel the peace, the love, the joy, the harmony, the Higher Intelligence, the Wisdom that we are. Right here and right now, in the peaceful calm that we exist in and as, we feel whole. We feel complete.
We affirm and we declare that whenever a crisis arises, we will simply stop and take the sacred breath in, releasing it. This crisis will be as a trigger for us to simply stop, and to sit. To feel the calm and wholeness we feel know; to know who and what we truly are: a perfect manifestation of Perfection Itself: we cannot, have not, and will never make a mistake or mis-step! We carry no worry and no guilt about decisions made previously, for although they did not seem to work out the way we would have liked them to, we trust completely God’s plan is perfect, which is always working through us as us.
We give thanks for this knowing, and we release it, letting it be now and forever more,
And So It Is!
Amen.