DOING IS WHAT WE DO

In the previous posting, the point was made that the “covering of intellect” is the doer, the initiator of all actions and undertakings.  

But now the question arises, what if a person decides that as an act of purification, he will just stop “doing”?  This way he can avoid attachment to doing, prevent the grasping, clinging, craving, clutching that comes with doing.

The trouble with this is that there is no such thing as stopping doing.  There is no such thing as doing nothing.  This is because doing nothing is still doing something.  The act of doing nothing is a something.
 
Time is to blame for this, naturally.  We are time bound, which forces us to do something even if it is doing nothing, or attempting to do nothing.  By the way, doing nothing, or trying to do nothing, is hard work.  Try it sometime. 
 
When finally we die we think that this will free us of all our doing, but being dead, it turns out, is hard work, too.  We are busy being dead.

So it seems that as the doer we are doomed.  We never stop doing doing.  If purification and avoiding attachment is our aim, a better idea is simply to contemplate doing rather than attempt to stop it.  Better we contemplate our lives than end them.