p11:

[p11 gloss: "Stop meditating. / Stop X"]

Gently stop(/​block/​prevent) meditating, completely, either immediately, if you can, or durationally incline towards this (if it seems good enough, safe enough, etc., to do this). And/​or/​rather, continuously "don't meditate." And, then, see what spontaneously, ongoingly remains, even so. That is, see how/if meditation (or anything) continues, if/​when you've completely stopped meditating, any/​all of which might be good or beyond goodness.

Other options and formulations (one at a time! not all at once!):

• [try to] not meditate, [try to do something other than meditate] and/​but also “try to not try” to do that not meditating. Gently, temporarily (iteratedly, imperfectly and/​or/​even selectively) block, set aside meditation of all kinds.
• [try to] do nothing, [try to not do anything] and/​but also “try to not try” to do that doing nothing or that not doing anything. Gently, temporarily (iteratedly, imperfectly and/​or/​even selectively) block, set aside doing of all kinds.
• [try to] not think, [try to not think anything] and/​but also “try to not try” to do that not thinking or that not thinking anything. Gently, temporarily (iteratedly, imperfectly and/​or/​even selectively) block thinking of all kinds. (And/​or let go of thought, maybe over and over again.) Colloquially, from one Zen master: “open the hand of thought”
• [try to] not do/​take “mental actions” of any kind, and/​but also “try to not try” to do that not doing/taking any “mental actions”. Gently, temporarily (iteratedly, imperfectly and/​or/​even selectively) block, set aside “mental actions” of all kinds. (e.g. including imagining, etc.) (And/​or let go of “mental actions,” maybe over and over again.)
• [try to] just be, to just physically exist [to do/​take no actions except] (sitting, standing, kneeling, laying, etc.) and/​or [to] just sit, stand, kneel, lay, etc., and/​but also “try to not try”
• Temporarily, gently, [do, don’t do, non-do, anything/everything but, try not to try to, release anything like, quell, still, block/​prevent, set aside] “attention,” “movement of attention,” “narrowing of attention,” “open focus/​awareness,” “one-pointed” attention[/​awareness], moving attention / evolving awareness
• Temporarily, gently, [do, don’t do, non-do, anything/​everything but, try not to try to, release anything like, quell, still, block/​prevent] pushing, forcing, advancing, progressing, gaining, accumulating, accomplishing, achieving, making progress, meditative progress, problem-solving progress, life-handledness progress, having insights, accumulating insights, having/ experiencing purifications, impatience

Notes:

• replace “not do X” with “non-X” or “non-doing X,” depending on how labeled and conceived and “what works”. Sub-note: There is a positive and paradoxical equivocation between “anything but this” and “this but spontaneously, without effort” [bottom-up] or maybe “self-less” (or maybe not)
• key concept, here: “conceptualization as such,” and also: “as so labeled and conceived,” and the way they limit/​narrow/​etc. (That’s not bad, per se, just functional, and part of, like “being,” even when functioning sort of aconceptually, in a sense.
• At the time of writing this, this is currently the last numbered main practice, but that no way is intended to imply that these are the “ultimate practices,” or anything like that, just to be clear. This main practice is just to highlight another empirical and/​or conceptual/theoretical “basis dimension” of “stickiness,” that some people will run into. It’s partially my bias of self-unsticking, that this didn’t come to my attention sooner. Everyone sort of needs to learn how to omni-self-unstick mid-to-late “on the path,” but this and all the main practices (and all the other practices) are intended to help facilitate that, generally and object-level.