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A Doing Guide

How to Do

You have something you love. A hobby. A passion. A craft. Something that pulls you — not because it's useful, not because anyone told you to.

Because you love it.

What you love

That's your practice.

Those moments where time disappears when you do what you love. Where you stop thinking about what you look like, what comes next, whether you're doing enough.

That's it. They're the same glimpses that the meditation page is pointing at. The self goes quiet. You've been there. You know what it's like.

You're just — in it.

How to practice

Pick one thing — One activity you already love. The one that already pulls you in. If you don't have one, something you've been interested in trying.

Don't add time — Use whatever you already give it. The practice isn't a new obligation — it's a different quality of attention brought to what you're already doing.

When the mind goes — Just come back. To whatever you're doing.

Do it again tomorrow — Same activity. Same quality of attention. Consistency matters more than intensity. One thing, done fully, is enough.

The practice

As you do what you love. The mind will have its own narrative.

Checking how you look doing it. Managing the impression. Building the story. Narrating: this is who I am, this is what I do.

None of that is you. That's the made self — here, even in the thing you love.

Just give yourself to it.

Not a half give. Not a give that comes from the mind.

Everything you have — to this.

The mind

The mind will start. It always does.

What you should have done differently. What's coming after this. Whether this counts as enough. The mind turns even the things you love into material — something to evaluate, improve, curate, share.

When you notice that — return.

Just this.

In your life

The teaching is the same. Meet everything you encounter the same way. Your commute. Your meals. Your hang outs.

Every ordinary act — fully met.

tldr

  1. Pick something you love
  2. Give all of yourself to it
  3. Mind gets lost
  4. Notice
  5. Return to step 2

After practice. Do what you need to do — without getting lost in thought.