silence – Jill Eng

June 30, 2020jilleng

Watch What You Do

This has been the general theme of my work since the inception of my first book in 2008. It provides a lifelong practice of countering the habitual thought process, “What should I do?” When receiving this question from my mind, it’s fun to respond with “Watch what I do” because they sound so alike. If […]

June 23, 2020June 24, 2020jilleng

My Pink Beach Chair

I have been diligently working at finishing my third book, which has been years in the making, while I recently began a fourth! This is exciting as I appreciate the continued writing in this body of work I adore so much. However, it may be why my blogging has dropped away and I miss it. […]

March 28, 2020jilleng

Don’t Be Fooled by Your Imaginings

You really are somewhere very specific, but perhaps believe you shouldn’t be. That is so odd to consider. Why would someone doubt reality? The attachment to the surface we’re on, right now (chair, couch, bed, floor, ground), is just as absolute as the attachment of our ribs to our spine. The surface is undeniably that […]

November 14, 2019jilleng

Action Versus Doing: The Sentence Game

What is action? I view action as a sentence we can make to describe our body in the space right now. For example, I am sitting in a chair typing on the computer. That is my current action. Though we call it the present tense, this action can only be acknowledged after the fact of […]

August 27, 2019jilleng

The Answer to All Our Problems

Fall is coming here in Maine. I can feel it. It’s been a few weeks I can sense the change; although we will still get some hot days this week. So interesting to have the evenings and nights cooler. There is a mixed feeling of pleasure and darkness with fall and winter around the corner. […]

June 28, 2019jilleng

The Body in Real Time

I watch to see what this body does, without knowing what it will do. I marvel at the magic of movement. I fascinate at how there is always something it does. Something gets done in real time. That is what I did. That is what I do, nothing more, nothing less. It is OK […]

May 16, 2019jilleng

Under the Effort

Under our mental and muscular effort we see our body in the space, weight falling onto some surface, bones moving in some capacity. Under our mental and muscular effort we realize our body is already in some specific action, doing something. Under our mental and muscular effort we understand what real action is […]

April 11, 2019jilleng

True Nature

True nature is what is, not what we believe should be (if it’s not what’s happening). We must abide. There are no options other than what nature provides. Bad guys are part of nature. They exist equally to all else. When they will be gone, we will know because we will see. Movement is movement. It all […]

October 24, 2018jilleng

Automaticity of Time and Action

Time is all that needs to occur to make everything happen and that is free, completely free. It is our proof that there is nothing to figure out or generate. See how it comes by itself. There is nothing you need to feel you have to do, nothing. There is no such thing as doing […]

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018jilleng

Absent of Meaning

Where we find our body is the only place it can be. There is no other possibility of action for any given moment. This removes choice in the way we generally think of it. Without the option of choice, we are left with the physical conditions of our body and its activity, no differently than […]