While it can be said that enlightenment is realised by doing nothing, it seems unskillful to then just do whatever the hell you want

Because there is a doing nothing, and there is a mindless wandering; endless distraction where many things are done accomplishing nothing.

Much of mindfulness is behaving appropriately when awaking from distractions. The more time one spends waking from distraction, the more time is spent cultivating the right mindset, the right way to react when encountering contents of experience.

If you spend your time involved in activities which suck in attention, losing oneself in them for hours at a time, without a moment of distraction, then your progress will be far far slower when it comes to cultivating the right way of living.

Yes, it's easy to say 'awakening is now, you have nothing to do', but for those stuck in delusion, reacting to every little thing that comes into awareness, grasping onto everything, averse to everything, loving and hating all things - what use is doing nothing if it is only done 10 times a day, so mindless is such a person? Wasn't this advice given to monks who already had great ability to discern the contents of awareness, hence immediate awakening being possible - because in such instances the only thing preventing them from realising reality were a few minor hiccups in the way they were looking at things?

I don't know man, but isn't just sitting/standing/walking as simply as possible being as free from the external as possible, looking at the wall all day long not the best option? In such a situation, the external ceases to matter and the only thing encountered constantly thousands upon thousands of times every day will be the content of one's awareness??

Submitted June 12, 2019 at 05:45AM by -_sometimes http://bit.ly/2Wt2YOJ