Making Sense Of Making Effort

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is not a doing by itself, but simply seeing one’s own auto-doings) we often habitually fall for being taken over by thoughts or auto-reflexes — robotic auto programming aka zero effort— and it takes effort to get out of robotic mode which is why one attentively watch their own conditioning or do the inner work — to get back their autonomy (awakeness).</i></p><blockquote id="2cc3"><p>Important and difficult it is to see our own reactions to, especially, disturbing and unpleasant thoughts/feelings. But rest assured, if we aren’t noticing it then we are giving into old habitual functioning, and thus being a slave to it. But we would not find it a problem unless it starts creating real suffering — forced to be awake.</p></blockquote><p id="17b5"><i>Not only inner work even outer work to do it in a sincere way where right effort is given more importance than results right action is right effort not blind doing for sake of doing to learn to pause when pausing is required to flow when flowing is required. Satisfaction is in giving the right effort and its consequence — effortless flow than to be concerned with the results.</i></p><p id="840b"><i>Nevertheless, whatever be the case we do, perhaps, have the choice to stop and see (which takes right effort too :) ) if we are in the right effort mode or are we in the negative effort mode (postponement of providing right effort) and then to choose how to proceed — from that point there is freedom.</i></p><p id="dec8"><i>Perhaps inner work and outer work cannot be separated from each other. When they merge there is a quality, I think, which is absent in blind productivity. Nor we can make up for the inner work with blind external work.</i></p><p id="0c06" type="7">…Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of

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Brahma. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.”―Bhagavad Gita</p><p id="c1c3" type="7">“A life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action”― M. Scott Peck</p><div id="fb0d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/unconscious-commitment-to-laziness-8aecee16dcee"> <div> <div> <h2>Unconscious Commitment To Laziness</h2> <div><h3>A poem on working with laziness</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*YWGzjK00ZFVLB0SyuMftgQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="c9ca" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/flowing-lines-flowering-presence-972825ffecaa"> <div> <div> <h2>Flowing Lines Flowering Presence</h2> <div><h3>A poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*xEEo3ZsKVYvC2FUdM3QSdQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="d83e" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/making-sense-of-showing-up-21e59bcd67bf"> <div> <div> <h2>Making Sense Of Showing Up</h2> <div><h3>Some poem-notes on showing up</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*lbr1IY-BNa0tJlUN)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

A poem to self as an extension to the poem on laziness

I think, only right effort leads to genuine joy or a sense of satisfaction with regards to whatever we are working on.

I think, only the right effort can lead to a state of “flow” but then how can we make the right effort right effort is right participation right effort is not blind doing it is not forcing things to happen.

In the right effort, there is risk for it is not falling for runaway thoughts it requires more of a pausing pausing to think, to reflect, to contemplate which takes effort (more of an ability to tolerate “presence”) than being run over by thoughts which is zero or negative effort.

We might cling on to beliefs or look for assurances or certainties indulge in ideologies or get sucked in overthinking than to think for ourselves perhaps, due to this effort required of us.

“Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.”― Walter Benjamin

If we had tried to work with thoughts as in doing inner work or meditation we would know that watching thoughts and feelings and also noticing our mechanical reactions to certain thoughts and feelings/sensations without being run over by them or to fall for them takes real effort, or it demands right effort (here watching is not a doing by itself, but simply seeing one’s own auto-doings) we often habitually fall for being taken over by thoughts or auto-reflexes — robotic auto programming aka zero effort— and it takes effort to get out of robotic mode which is why one attentively watch their own conditioning or do the inner work — to get back their autonomy (awakeness).

Important and difficult it is to see our own reactions to, especially, disturbing and unpleasant thoughts/feelings. But rest assured, if we aren’t noticing it then we are giving into old habitual functioning, and thus being a slave to it. But we would not find it a problem unless it starts creating real suffering — forced to be awake.

Not only inner work even outer work to do it in a sincere way where right effort is given more importance than results right action is right effort not blind doing for sake of doing to learn to pause when pausing is required to flow when flowing is required. Satisfaction is in giving the right effort and its consequence — effortless flow than to be concerned with the results.

Nevertheless, whatever be the case we do, perhaps, have the choice to stop and see (which takes right effort too :) ) if we are in the right effort mode or are we in the negative effort mode (postponement of providing right effort) and then to choose how to proceed — from that point there is freedom.

Perhaps inner work and outer work cannot be separated from each other. When they merge there is a quality, I think, which is absent in blind productivity. Nor we can make up for the inner work with blind external work.

…Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahma. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.”―Bhagavad Gita

“A life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action”― M. Scott Peck