{"id":246,"date":"2007-07-05T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2007-07-05T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T13:54:56","slug":"the-zen-of-doing-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-zen-of-doing-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zen of doing Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work, work, work. Play hard. Take a holiday. Go out. have you seen the latest ?  And yet &#8230;. I crave to walk the mountains, not alone, but in solitude, allowing my mind to breathe, to listen to the quite whispers going on between me and my mind. Between my conscious and subconscious. Every day to get to know myself again, to say a quite hello to myself, and give myself a gentle hug.  And seemingly to do nothing. Nothing except just be&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;. for if not, I am no longer active. I fool myself into thinking  that the flurry of activity is real.  That it gives my presence on this planet worth<br \/>\nIt is an illusion.<br \/>\nFor it is just a flurry of reactivity..  It&#8217;s like my mind is leaving my heart behind.<br \/>\nOften we believe that what happens is so directly related to what we do. Our actions.<br \/>\nThat is just our Ego. For often our actions are mere reactions.  Reactions that actually impede what we set out to achieve.  To do.<br \/>\nSometimes, it isgood to sit back and believe.  Just believe. Knowing that sometimes it is not merely in the doing, but also in the believing.<br \/>\nShekhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work, work, work. Play hard. Take a holiday. Go out. have you seen the latest ? And yet &#8230;. I crave to walk the mountains, not alone, but in solitude, allowing my mind to breathe, to listen to the quite whispers going on between me and my mind. Between my conscious and subconscious. 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