A Buddha is a person who has no more business to do and isn't looking for anything. In doing nothing, in simply stopping, we can live freely and true to ourselves and our liberation will contribute to the liberation of all beings."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
“Buddha says the man of understanding is not even hampered by the thought of the way, because he is not going anywhere, so there is no point of any way. He is simply here. When you are going somewhere you need a way. When you understand, you simply enjoy being here. This moment is enough. There is nowhere to go, so what is the point of a way, a path, means? There is no end, no goal, nowhere to go.
That's my emphasis also. There is nowhere to go. Just be here. Just be here as totally as possible. Don't allow your mind to go anywhere. And in that moment when you are not going anywhere, everything falls into silence. Experience it. You can experience it right now, listening to me -- if you are not going anywhere……..
……….The universe is going somewhere; you fall in tune with it, you move with the river. Then you don't push the river. Then you don't have any other goal than the goal of the whole.
A man who understands has nothing to do, he has just to be. His being is all his action. His action is his delight, he enjoys it. You ask a painter. If the painter is a real painter,then he enjoys painting, not that there is some result to it. There may not be, there may be; that is irrelevant.
Remember, an action becomes a karma, a bondage, if you have some end, if you are going somewhere through it. If your action is just your delight -- like children playing, making sand castles, enjoying, no goal to their activity, just playing, intrinsic play in the very activity -- then there is no karma, then there is no bondage. Then each action brings more and more freedom…” -- ( Osho)
“Many of us have spent our whole lives learning, questioning, and searching.But even on the path of enlightenment, if all we do is study, we’re wasting our time and that of our teacher. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t study; study and practice help each other. But what’s important is not the goal we’re seeking—even if that goal is enlightenment—but living each moment of our daily life truly and fully.
When we learn to stop and be truly alive in the present moment, we are in touch with what’s going on within and around us. We aren’t carried away by the past, the future, our thinking, ideas, emotions, and projects. Often we think that our ideas about things are the reality of that thing. Our notion of the Buddha may just be an idea and may be far from reality. Buddha is not a reality that exists outside of us, but is our own true nature.
Insight can’t be found in sutras, commentaries, verbal expression, or -isms. Liberation and awakened understanding can’t be found by devoting ourselves to the study of the scriptures. This is like hoping to find fresh water in dry bones. Returning to the present moment, using our clear mind which exists right here and now, we can be in touch with liberation and enlightenment, as well as with the Buddha and the patriarchs as living realities right in this moment.
The person who has nothing to do is sovereign of him\herself. He\She doesn’t need to put on airs or leave any trace behind. The true person is an active participant, engaged in his\her environment while remaining unoppressed by it. He\She lives in awareness as an ordinary person, whether standing, walking, lying down, or sitting. He\She doesn’t act a part, even the part of a great Zen master.” -- (Thich Nhat Hanh)
Reference;
1. The discipline of transcendence Vol.1 – Osho.
2. http://www.dailyom.com/library/000/001/000001261.html
3. Picture source - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:It_felt_as_if_one%E2%80%99s_entire_world_was_one,_long_Sunday_afternoon._Nothing_to_do._Nowhere_to_go._--Ralph_Gibson_(5723471764).jpg by Christopher Michel