Do, Yet Not Do

Sage Vasishtha

Cut down the mind with the mind itself. Having reached the state of purity, remain established in it right now. Cut the mind with the mind and dismiss the thought of the mind which thus negates the mind: thus will you have finally destroyed the world-appearance. When thus the world-appearance has been eliminated, delusion will not arise again and the mind will not create the world-appearance again either. Though appearing to function in this world  be firmly rooted in the awareness of the unreality of all this and thus give up all hopes and expectations. Rooted in equanimity, doing whatever happens to be the appropriate action in each given situation and not even thinking about what has thus befallen you unsought, live a non-volitional life here. Even as the Lord may be said to be both the doer and the non-doer of all actions here, you, too, live non-volitionally - doing yet not doing what has to be done.