I'm tired of meditating

Chow: I'm tired of meditating.

Old man: Then don't meditate.

Chow: But how am I suppose to find the truth that way?

Old man: You already have it. How can you search for something you already have?

Chow: So are you telling me there's no need to meditate at all.

Old man: You are asking the wrong question. Doing or not doing has got nothing to do with walking the path of liberation.

Chow: I don't get you. Its either I do or I don't do, what is there left?

Old man: Non-action.

Chow: What is that?

Old man: Contrary to what you just said, to do or not to do connotes action. Non-action falls out of that category. Non-action is not an action, not a verb, it is a state that you be in. Being in a state of non-action is to be a witness... whereby you no longer react to your ego anymore.

Chow: So I meditate because...

Old man: You are meditating because thats what you were told to do. It is reassuring to the ego that you are doing the right thing when in fact you are no better than not meditating at all. Any action will only serve to reinforce the ego.

Chow: Even my thoughts?

Old man: Thoughts consist of the past and the future. Any form of thought is the ego. Even the thought of not thinking is the ego.

Chow: How do I get rid of my thoughts?

Old man: Again, you are asking the wrong question. There is no how. To ask "how" connotes action. You are asking me how to do nothing. I can only tell you how to do something, but I cannot tell you how to do nothing. To ask "how" to be enlightened is to fight an endless battle.

Chow: Why?

Old man: Because you are already there. You have always been, always will be. There is nothing else you could be. There is nothing to find, and no means to search for it either.

Chow: Then what is stopping me from realizing the truth?

Old man: Nothing.

Chow: Then why am I not enlightened?

Old man: Because you have not realized that there is nothing stopping you. You keep thinking about obstacles that are not there.

Chow: Why do I think that way?

Old man: I do not know.