I mean, how simple listening and no suggestion - solve someone's problem. But my view is slowly changing. It happened recently that one of my friend was facing some problem and she got to know about zen counselling and that I am a zen counsellor so she asked to do a session with her.
It kept getting postponed for months because she was in another city far away from where I was. She can't come and I couldn't go. One day, I met her online and she looked upset and asked me again about the session, I said ok lets do an online session. An online zen counselling session ? Man, I myself was too skeptical about it and it just looked yet another spoof like those millions of fake online scams. But , being a friend - I wanted to extend my help as much as I can.
I thought, lets just give it a shot.
We started chatting online, she began to speak up the problem. I followed the same principles of Zencounselling - that is being patient, asking questions and listening. She went on for a good 30-40 mins and then suddenly she said - I guess I know what I am supposed to do.
She got the solution. I was taken aback. I did absolutely nothing.
She started thanking me and inside I knew , that I have done nothing.
But that's the beauty of Zen, - doing nothing - everything is happening.
Now, I am exploring the idea of online and telephonic zen counselling.
It is quite amazing to know how nothing actually works.
