"With effort, the whole world enters in. Doing nothing simply means that: no effort, not going anywhere, not desiring anything, not even nirvana, God, samadhi. Desire is desire; what you desire makes no difference to desiring. You desire money, somebody desires meditation. You desire pleasures of this world; somebody else desires pleasures in the other world, what is the difference? There is none; it is all the same. The desiring mind is there, and the desiring mind is the world. So even if you desire the other world, it remains the world. There is no other world. Desiring creates the world, the whole misery of it.

"Not doing anything means not desiring. There is no movement in you, in any direction. There is no future in your consciousness; there is nothing beyond this moment – just this. No going back, no going forward, no memory, no imagination, no out, no in. All is silent. There is no movement; no ripple is arising. That is non-doing. That is the greatest that can happen to human consciousness.

"Looking into one's own being is nothing compared to doing nothing. It does have something in it compared to outward movements. It is better, relatively, to move inward, a good step, but it is not the goal, it is part of the journey. Somebody is looking out, you are looking in: it is better than looking out, but remember, only relatively. It still has to be dropped. But you are coming closer to home, going out, you are farther away. Looking in, you are still away, but not so far away, you are coming closer and closer and closer.

"But remember, closeness is also distance. Even when you are very close, ninety-nine degrees – only one degree more and the happening and the transcendence – still you are far away. You may not be able to make that one degree; you may wander again. The water is just coming to the point where it can evaporate, but it may not evaporate; it may start cooling before evaporation happens. It may remain water, it may be hot water but water is water, hot or cold. But it is relatively better, because the cold water will have to be made hot; this is hot already."