Questioner: There is a passage from the preface of Open Secret - “There is abandonment of a phenomenal center constitutes the only 'practice', and such abandonment is not an act volitionally profound by the identified subject, but a non-action leaving the noumenal center In control of phenomenal activity, and free from the fictitious interferences by an imaginary self.
Acharya Prashant: Beautiful. Lovely quote. Yes?
Q: So, my question is that what is Non-action?
Acharya: Action that you do not do. In your own calculation, with your own intellect, you are never going to abandon yourself. What Wei Wu Wei has described here is pure bhakti or it is Prem-yog or it is Guru-yog. What he is saying is - you will never be able to do it on your own. Let it be done. Now, let it be done is equivalent to let it be done by something else or somebody else. You will not be able to do it on your own. Such abandonment is not an act volitionally performed by the identified subject. Your own volition would never consent to it. Therefore, you have to just hand yourself over to something, somebody or may be nobody in particular. The difference is, Wei Wu Wei just says, “You do not do it.” Bhakti yog and Guru yog they go a step ahead and say you do not do it, let him do it. But both the methods, one thing is certain, it is not through your own personal volition that the abandonment is going to happen. Your own cleverness, your tricks, your methods, your processes, your ways, will be of no help. You have to let yourself belong to something beyond you. In the Buddhist way, it would be said, “you just have to let go of yourself.” You just have to belong to the flow.
