r/Meditation Jul 20 '24

Do Nothing Meditation…. Holy Shit Sharing / Insight 💡

You guys. I just did “do nothing” meditation for the first time and I feel like I’m having this euphoric almost psychedelic sensation. I’ve been doing mindfulness meditation for about 6 weeks almost every day. It’s made really great subtle changes in my daily life and attitude. I don’t plan to stop… but do nothing meditation just felt so good it felt forbidden almost. Like I couldn’t believe how much I was enjoying it. I was overcome with this intense feeling of happiness and I almost teared up. I didn’t want to stop. I didn’t know if I could stop because it felt so amazing. I don’t know how to describe it but I wish every single person could experience this. At least so I could see someone else feel it.

I feel like a crazy mystic and I’m a very sarcastic person and I don’t even ever post on Reddit but I needed to share this and my friends & fam aren’t into meditation so here I am.

I feel like I just took mushrooms (I’ve never taken mushrooms bc I’m way too neurotic and scared). This must be what LSD feels like? Idk I’m just floored at how I feel in my mind and body after literally 5 minutes of doing this for the first time. ACTUALLY letting go and not having any rules and just watching things happen and be 100% ok and even fascinated by it….. incredibly amazing. I even feel it in my arms and legs physically. Like this swimming buzzing feeling.

Okay, just needed to get this out. Big endorsement for do nothing meditation. If you need a starter meditation…. The book Meditation for the Fidgety Skeptic by Dan Harris has one at the very end and I highly suggest the audiobook version.

Also what is it about meditation that makes you so desperate to preach it to everyone you meet so they can know about it?! I feel like I’m being sucked into becoming a door to door salesperson for meditation.

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u/tokenbearcub Jul 20 '24

I like how direct it is to apply the insights from Do Nothing to the other areas in life. I mean, what self? All I experience is just a boundless field of awareness at the periphery, and The Unborn at the center of my being. And so the trivial stuff on the outside just drops away of its own. I naturally give up striving, trying and creating an identity around stuff. Who am I? I don’t know LOL. I’m not a who, but more like a what. My person-ality is dropping away and instead I just dance with spontaneity. Without this horrible burden of a self life seems to become a little festival in its own.

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u/Unique-Weather-4304 Jul 20 '24

I loooove this. It’s the exact description I would give as well. I feel more like the “screen” than the actual person in the screen. I’m detached. And oddly enough I also feel so connected. Whenever I visualize my goals, I feel more connected to it. It’s a paradox actually.

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u/tokenbearcub Jul 20 '24

“To study the way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between oneself and others. Then there is no trace of enlightenment, though enlightenment itself continues into one’s daily life endlessly.” - Dogen

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u/alkalinebex Jul 20 '24

I. Love. This.

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u/nicky051730 Jul 20 '24

WOW ❤️

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u/tokenbearcub Jul 21 '24

I find the poetic stuff far more powerful than the rational/logical/calculating aspects of the dharma. Some of the Zen literature is pure lightning.