It is the cry of the separate self, โWhat about me?โ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesnโt matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.
Charles EisensteinI'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into a spiritual or meditative state that we fancy up by calling it mindfulness, but really it's an unhealthy detachment and a shrinking back from life. But culturally, it's much more common to be trapped in habits of reaction, whether on a systemic level or on a personal level. That's where the non-doing comes in, which is something that we don't really have room for. I think that it's something we need to embrace as part of the creative process.
Charles EisensteinA woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and feeling more tired when she woke up than when she went to bed. She really wanted to go to a workshop and she went anyway. And when she was there, she felt much less tired. So she decided, "Maybe if I continue to follow what I really want to do at all times, I will feel less tired." This was her spiritual practice - - to only do the things that she wanted to, and to not make choices based on anything else. That is an embracing of pleasure, of joy, of good feelings.
Charles EisensteinThe world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I donโt have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isnโt a global 911 to call.
Charles Eisenstein