Practice Nothing, the most profound of all practices

poof, there it is

What’s the most advanced spiritual practice? Several traditions have arrived at the same answer: Nothing. This should be surprising: that you find this in the Buddhist world, the Christian world, the Hindu world. We should be confused given that the world’s meditative traditions contain bliss states that feel like MDMA, deity visualizations that make you literally feel like a god, deity visualizations that involve having imaginary sex with celestial beings, and a panoply of other tricks. How could doing nothing be valued over those? The trick of it is that “do nothing,” the instruction,…

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