The art of doing nothing – Newsletter February 2023

the art of doing nothing
I was far away, on a journey that I devoted to the sacred art of doing nothing.

I heard this expression the first time in a film of Roberto Rosselllini. There is a woman sitting in a bar, lost in the ecstasy of the present moment. “Those who seem to do nothing, are doing the most important: they practice being human and divine at the same time”, wrote Seneca.

At the beginning of my journey I was far away from the divine doing nothing. I had wild dreams and felt disoriented. I was standing in front of the sea and could not dissolve into it, cause so many thoughts like grains of sand where between me and the ocean.

It takes time until you really arrive when you travel. Until the nervous system calms down. How long this will take – nobody knows, maybe days or weeks. The motion from doing into being has it´s own rhythm.

Suddenly it is there. Time begins to dissolve. The body moves into an ocean of presence. This can happen any time, you don´t need to go on a journey for that. But it needs an intention, an alignment, a decision. Cause one thing is for sure: you have to make space for the divine doing nothing. Or you have to get out of the way.

The divine doing nothing is not boredom. It is not a state of waiting and it does not include expectations. It is free from goals, it is enough for itself. It is like the bird that lays down in the wind to float.

You sit down into your body and the body of the world, while many I´s and Me´s fall off you. The ones who are constantly thinking, planning, bubbling, pushing, fighting, wanting, wishing.

The divine doing nothing is a fusion, melting together with everything that is. It is being. It is – I am.

The divine doing nothing is so valuable, cause it gives us deep regeneration. It strengthens the openness, the aliveness and the ability to be receive. It opens the door to the inner world for insight, connects us with our inner rhythms and impulses. And for sure it brings us the pure joy of being alive.

In the end of my journey I was driving with my car through the rain and I was crying, cause I felt sad. But within the sadness there was happiness. Cause there was no judgement, it did not want to feel anything else than what I felt, not wishing that anything should be different than this moment.

Then a divine rainbow was glowing in front of me and I knew, I arrived.