|

The Art of Doing Nothing.....
Vacations too . . . how perfectly named that is . . . a vacation, an
emptying out . . . that's what "DHYANA"
is, an emptying out of all the static clutter and junk of one's life and
just settling into an undefined sort of tranquillity. That's what Lila's
involved in now, a huge vacation, an emptying out of the junk of her life.
She's clinging to some new pattern because she thinks it holds back the old
pattern. But what she has to do is take a vacation from all patterns, old
and new, and just settle into a kind of emptiness for a while. And if she
does, the culture has a moral obligation not to bother her. The most moral
activity of all is the creation of space for life to move onward.
From the book Lila by Robert M Pirsig
also the writer of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence
Doing
nothing is important in life and at times very important. All your life you
are always doing something or the other. But the times when your body is
tired of doing things and needs to be recharged you sleep, you do nothing.
And you wake up ready to take on the world afresh. Like sleep recharges you
body, holidays are a way to recharge your soul. That is why people need to
take holidays, to get away from everyday life and do something new something
different knowing that the soul is being comforted in doing so. The Camp
BodhiSatva is a destination for doing just that. A destination for
SOUL VACATION.
Spend your time wandering aimlessly in the hills, without
the fear of getting lost. Chase butterflies and watch the birds. You can
spend hours swinging in the hammock without ever realising how time passes
by or laze around a shallow stream mabe even half immersed in the water. You
can choose to read a book under a distant tree and then forget the book and
climb the tree instead. Frankly doing nothing does acquire a toally
different meaning at Camp BodhiSatva.
|