to settle or continue peripatetic

From Jundo Cohen's blog, Tree Leaf Zen:

The way to settle the ripples in a vessel of agitated water is not by doing something ... not by patting down the ripples with our hand, not by blowing on them or trying to will them down ... but by doing nothing at all, allowing the waters to still and balance of their own accord.

The way to settle the ripples of thought and emotion of the mind is much the same ... not by doing something ... but by doing nothing at all with great focus, letting the mind still and balance of one's own accord by our very sitting still.

peripatetic (definition from Merriam Webster online)

Main Entry:

²peripatetic

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Middle French & Latin; Middle French peripatetique, from Latin peripateticus, from Greek peripatētikos, from peripatein to walk up and down, discourse while pacing (as did Aristotle), from peri- + patein to tread; akin to Sanskrit patha path — more at find

Date:

1566