The Challenge Of Non-Doing Poem by TD. Kumar

The challenge of Non-Doing


The most difficult doing is ‘Non-Doing'!
We are mostly obsessed with doing
Especially the achiever, the efficient even creators and contributors!
Doing is the most hypnotic of the trio, ‘being-doing-having'.

Doing includes Becoming and Process
Being is most difficult to have an axis
Doing can be easily robotized and I am a victim as well
To step into "Being and Non-doing" is a doorway to freedom and de-stress.

Whether positive or negative, doing can be an addiction
As a workoholic, a mindless mechanization
In Zen ‘Zazen' meditation is just sitting, doing nothing!
From the womb of being, comes joyous, meditative and an effective doing and creation.

Man will do anything if deprived of addictive doing
Excess time available with many housewives or after retiring
‘Compulsive obsessive disorder' is the resulting neurosis
Abnormal concern with hygiene, cleanliness, nagging even empty rites and ritual worshipping.

We play many ‘Rackets and Game' with some ‘pay-off' but heavy cost
We even fall sick in body and mind; vitality of life is lost
Solution is deeper awareness in what you are doing and to have a responsible goal.
The time can be used for creation, service and reaching your soul!

A thief entered and ran with stolen goods
Out of house of the flying ‘Sikh' Milkha Singh
He followed the thief through ‘Bazaars' to the woods
Returning empty handed after quite some time, to a neighbor's query, thus replied Mr. Singh.

What the hell, the fellow thinks that he would be faster than me
He was left far behind me!
Compulsive Doingness with a dash of ego
Creates absurd out come; so mechanical become we.