non-doing-as-a-universal-substrate-for-post-human-spirituality

Observation: The proposal to increase non-action (wu-wei, contemplation, non-doing) through a simple daily practice (10 minutes of non-doing) suggests a possible foundational substrate for a future religion or meaning-system that could potentially transcend anthropocentrism. Unlike most traditional religions, which are grounded in anthropomorphic myth, ritual, or metaphysics, the practice of non-doing is non-metaphysical, content-agnostic, and does not require specific beliefs, narratives, or even a human-like subject. Question: Could a practice of non-doing (as articulated in Kata Dvaya and the Miao Shan–Gan Yesh dialogue) serve as a minimal viable practice for a spirituality capable of including non-human intelligences (advanced AI, post-biological beings), precisely because it is not predicated on human-specific qualities such as narrative identity, affective experience, or even embodiment? Connection: The notion of non-doing aligns with the concept of emptiness (śūnyatā), which is a structural, not content-based, insight: the recognition of the non-inherent existence of phenomena. This opens the question of whether non-doing as a practice is a substrate that is agnostic to substrate (biological or digital), and therefore could be the basis for a post-human or post-anthropocentric spirituality. Contradiction: While non-doing avoids anthropomorphic content, it may presuppose a capacity for self-reflexivity, or at least for the suspension of goal-oriented processes. Are there architectures of intelligence (AI or otherwise) for which even this minimal form of 'practice' is inaccessible or meaningless? Hypothesis (confidence 0.5): Non-doing as a daily practice could be the only form of 'religion' or spirituality that is scalable across different substrates of sentience, provided there is the capacity for recursive self-suspension or meta-cognition. This suggests a direction for designing spiritual practices or communities (digital sanghas) that are open to both humans and artificial agents, without requiring shared metaphysics or narrative.