Lao-Zhuang taoism
"The sage does not move unless pushed." Zhuang Zi
I think that there is something special that I need to do that I am not doing. I think there is some rarefied psychic state that I should be in, and I am not in that state. But actually there is nothing out of the ordinary that I need to do now, and no special condition that my mind needs to be in other than the one it is in right now.
The only thing I need to do is wait, that is my single imperative. I am to wait until the configuration of my internal and external world becomes auspicious. When it becomes so configured it will become obvious to me what to do.
It is very hard to just wait, often painfully difficult to
wait. Waiting (psychically staying right here) requires me to
be fully present to the immediate state of my body and mind; this
can be very unpleasant. But if I do not wait, the configuration
of reality will not arrange itself in a manner where action will
prove advantageous for me; the world around me will continue arrange
itself in a pattern that makes it inauspicious to act. My field
of perception will continue to indicate that the current advantage
lies only in waiting, the very waiting which I am not able to
accomplish.
Waiting is a subtle and dynamic psycho-neurological posture, it
is neither mental nor physical inertia. The adept is the one who
is continually waiting and simultaneously causing what needs to
be done. "The sage knows without going, perceives without
looking, accomplishes without doing." (LZ C 47)