It's just the breaking of the other habit or the presence of the other habit that creates the impression that 'I need to get better at this.'
As the other habit that takes us out of Being falls away, we find that Being is actually where we reside.
Is there a progression?
Let's say I want to learn tennis. So then I'm trying tennis, I'm watching how I hit the ball and get feedback.
And then when I am really really good
it's clear that
I'm not doing tennis.
But in the beginning when I was learning tennis, and I was paying attention ... It feels like 'I am doing tennis.'
Can you talk about that? Is there a change that happens?
So, the progression is this coming to know ourselves and it takes effort, it feels like effort sometimes.
It feels like 'I am doing this, I am doing the enquiry, I am doing investigating, I am doing the dropping into Being.
And it's just the breaking of the other habit or the presence of the other habit that creates the impression that 'I need to get better at this.'
As the other habit that takes us out of Being falls away, we find that Being is actually where we reside.
And it's completely natural. And it's not something that have to work at anymore.
It means that we can walk through life allowing life to unfold exactly as it unfolds without having to 'try not to react' or 'try to accept'
We just find that acceptance is our natural state.
Acceptance is our true nature.
Happiness is our true nature, because happiness is actually the absence of non-acceptance.
So, our true nature is peace and it's not a true nature that we have to keep, or a function that we have to keep doing in daily life.
If we have to keep doing peace, it would be hard work.
But this process of investigating the mechanics, that is a process that at first seems like 'I am doing it,' 'I the doer am investigating.'
At some point it becomes amazingly clear 'Wow, I'm not doing investigation. Investigation is happening.
And that shifts the investigation to a whole new level of efficacy.
Hugely so. It becomes exponentially more powerful when a witnessing of investigation happens.
So the investigation continues and yet what we are is witnessing the investigation happening.
Witnessing the practicing happening.
And eventually - like you say - you realize that tennis is your second nature and in this case it's our first nature.
So we don't need do anything.