Steven Barrie-Anthony's op-ed essay "I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us." in the New York Times offers insights worth pondering:

... technology brings a kind of alexithymic fog — alexithymia being the condition of having difficulty identifying or being able to express one’s emotions. This isn’t universal, and the emotions we’re pushing away aren’t always the same. But it happens in a startlingly consistent way.

When we do manage to feel, it can be difficult to dwell with the feelings. Instead, we move swiftly into action. ...

Tech encourages the instrumentalization of emotional life, by which I mean that our feelings seem real only if they translate into actions that help us achieve specific goals. ...

... we are highly incentivized to focus on action in pursuit of external markers of success. The notion of staying with feeling without translating it into action seems pointless.

Barrie-Anthony talks about how "mindfulness", in its Western instantiation, has led to "mindfulness apps" that tally meditative minutes to feed leaderboards, with ostensible goals of helping "... de-stress, get more work done, lower your blood pressure". His conclusion:

To tackle the problems of technology we have to return to our emotional lives for their own sake, and not always leap to doing or changing or fixing. This is the only viable pathway if we are to remain in touch with our humanness and to preserve love, empathy, emotional and spiritual richness, and the capacity to create art and music that reflect our inner lives.

This echoes Jon Kabat-Zinn (in Wherever You Go, There You Are, chapter "This Is It"):

... Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. ...

... and also Kabat-Zinn (in Coming to Our Senses, chapter "Two Ways to Think About Meditation"):

... This other way of describing meditation is that whatever "meditation" is, it is not instrumental at all. If it is a method, it is the method of no method. It is not a doing. There is no going anywhere, nothing to practice, no beginning, middle, or end, no attainment, and nothing to attain. Rather, it is the direct realization and embodiment in this very moment of who you already are, outside of time and space and concepts of any kind, a resting in the very nature of your being, in what is sometimes called the natural state, original mind, pure awareness, no mind, or simply emptiness. ...

... and Paul Wilson (in Finding the Quiet, chapter "The art of letting go"):

... be prepared to allow things to happen at their own pace. Without applying effort. Without trying to analyze in any way. And without expecting any particular outcome. ...

... and Maurine Stuart (in Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, chapter "Breathing In, Breathing Out")

... The thought of practicing Zen is gone. The thought of successful practice is gone. Scattered mind is gone. There's just simply one-mindedness, and then no-mindedness: Mu-shin. Nothing seeking, or striving, or getting; just counting. Just breathing. Just being. Just this. ...

... and in Toki Pona, perhaps:

taso kon
taso lon
taso ni

_{(cf This Is It (2008-11-14), No Method (2010-01-21), Without Effort, Analysis, or Expectation (2010-08-04), This (2013-03-09), Just Breathing, Just Being, Just This (2017-04-03), ...) - ^z - 2025-11-12}