Do nothing!

@herpyderpy, for all the people going ??? Wadahell is this guy on about? How can you do something and nothing at the same time, that’s a paradoxical mindfuck!

Would you care to iterate?

Too many people don’t know how to do nothing. It’s sad really.

@herpyderpy, I guess is something like doing anything with your soul and nothing with your mind. Just a pure embrace of whatever it is, with no thought intervention.
Is like meditation with your eyes open.

@herpyderpy, I love the concept of not looking. I wish more people would understand it.

nice post :)

@herpyderpy, This is called living mindfully or living with mindfulness. Meditation helps achieve this state of awareness. Just for people who don’t know. Cheers!

You can’t really do nothing, it’s just an illusion.

You’re always doing something, there’s never nothing going on. Even the act of “doing nothing” is doing something.
You can never do nothing.

You can never do nothing, you’re always doing stuff.

@herpyderpy

It was ruined before I came here, I merely revealed how ruined it is.

When things do not work, it is better to know that they do not work, than pretend like they do.
Truth only hurts if you favour untruth.

@manimal, I’ll try to make this as literal as possible. You can’t not think but you can silence your mind. Have you ever tried meditation? It is very therapeutic and contributes a great deal to proper mental health. It is the act of just letting go, emptying your head and being present. I think this is what OP is saying we should do. This is “doing nothing”.

Also life is pointless (unless you have a religion) itself does that mean it’s not worth living. If you say the point of life is happiness then what is the point of happiness. If you spend your life just going from Point A to B you will have lived a sad life IMO.

@classik62, Of course I wouldn’t, seeing how I’d have proof that it was possible. However, people who think they’re “being nothing” are just deluding themselves, it is blissful ignorance. A lack of attention and comprehension.
A pool of water is never completely still.
Plus, a body of water can’t ebb and flow and yet appear still, you’d have to be blind to not see how it was moving.

@moonglade, Have I ever tried meditation? Well, I’ve meditated daily for 10 years. But to say that meditation is doing nothing, that’s just ignorant.
Meditation is the reason I know these things, it’s how I found them out.
Of course I thought I was doing nothing at first, I thought my mind was empty, and so on, but I soon found out that it was complete bullshit. Ignorance.
There’s never nothing going on, you’re never doing nothing, never thinking nothing. You’re never rid of ego. You can tell yourself that you are, but that doesn’t make it so, it’s just delusional.

It’s like peeling off layers. You peel the first one off and think “I’ve peeled it all off, I’m done, this is the truth.” But if you pay some attention, you’ll find that it’s just another layer, you peel it off, just to find another one. Soon you realize that it will never end, there’s always another layer, and another.
You don’t know what you don’t know. You will never arrive.

When you think you’re doing nothing, you’re just deluding yourself, closing your mind, hindering your progress and mental well-being. And it’s not like you’re getting anything in return for it, other than validation of your ego.

The only positive effects that can come from trying to do nothing, is that you stop doing everything wrong. But you could also get these same results from doing things right instead of trying to do nothing, you would get just as much “mind-emptying silent bliss” and you would also accomplish something, get some nice bonus, etc.

Everything is pointless, yes. But there are things that work better, things that feel better, things that are more breathtaking and enlightening, than others.
Life is absolutely worth living, living it to its fullest, instead of wasting it away trying to do nothing.
That’s a sad life.

If you spend your whole life going from A to B you gotta be daft. I’ve been through the whole alphabet, but there’s still infinitely many other points out there to reach.
It’s not a sad life, I’m constantly stoked, absolutely high on life. I don’t need to go from point to point, I’m not attached to it, but I like it. And it’s not like I’ll ever run out of points to reach, because I’m not an ignorant dumbass who denies the depth and reality of things.

Looks like you’ve fallen in the spiritual pitfall.

On the concept that doing nothing, isn’t literally doing nothing, I do a heck of a lot of it. I don’t work, I stay at home. And it can be both stressful and awesome. I love being able to relax and take the time to just think about my life, what’s happening in my mind state, and anything else that might interest me. However doing things does have a certain appeal to it also. Sometimes going out with friends having a few too many drinks and all around just having a good time is exciting. And having a project to do during the day helps the minutes go by. But I’m all for the clearing of the mind theory. It makes me feel more in tune with what’s happening around me.