What does "doing nothing" mean--in meditation and in life

From what I experienced, I would try to compare how to "do nothing" in meditation, and in real life.

Doing nothing in meditation doesn't mean sitting there without any proactive direction to go, otherwise for many of us, we would fall asleep. Although we are supposed to "just be," what we are really doing is to "notice", to "observe", what is inside of us, not outside.

But there is a balance between just "notice" and painfully "searching." If we search too hard, our physical body isn't truly relaxed, and the energy body can't show.

Go inward and just notice. In a while, we will notice there is something that starts to come out subtly. We just allow it to happen. This is our energy body. This is our inner energy, that will connect us with our inner self.

Doing nothing in real life is to just feel what's from this inner self and act on it. Often time we will notice the only way we can keep the connection with inner self is to intensely focus on the now.

When we have strong inner energy, staying in the now is automatic and effortless, feeling like we are not even doing anything, when we really are still doing something.

So behind this doing nothing, there is the important direction of inner energy. Without the unfolding of our inner energy, would any people on the street just all of a sudden know how to end their own suffering by doing nothing?

I would say this is possible, because when we are really doing nothing and totally relax the physical body, this is when our energy body is likely to come out. But before this happens, there are a lot of things to bypass first: body sensation, emotions, thoughts, and memory.