[ensonar]

Here's a great interview with Taisha Abelar, where she discusses stalking, and mentions that she too played a homeless beggar for a while:

http://www.sustainedaction.org/_nagualist/...%207%201994.htm

[ryan]

Thank-you! What a great article.

[Jin]

Speaking a language with no meaning just combination of sounds, that for everybody else sounds like a language they don't know
not-doing , stalking, aid to inner silence and realy fun especialy if there is 2 of you doing that in an ordinary social event
Just throwing out 1 sentence and then silence or talking in native language has an interesting effect on others

good for changing bad language habits (shit, fuck ...... (for thouse who still have them)) just say something with no known meaning instead gives an insight of uslesnes of that basic reaction that couses to say thouse words

Also it has an interesting effect on inner dialoge, if you speak with language that has no meaning in u, sounds don't record, so don't repeat themselves. So it's an infinite play of creation, intending and using something that doesn't exist

[ensonar]

I LIKE! Porteller vel lo che. Vel LO CHE!

[Nick]

I know that not-doings generally can be of a very personal nature. But I'd really like to know if anyone out there would feel like mentioning some not-doings that they've come accross that may be of interest to others.

Not-doings as I understand them is any form of behaviour that breaks our routines. That way we stay fluid. This must also be true of emotional responses & beliefs.
Personally I am trying to be patient & understanding with poor babys who normally piss me off. They burdon me even more which makes it even more demanding.
Other not-doings I am trying are, squatting on the toilet seat instead of sitting normally (takes a while to get your balance), helping my friends with their decorating (I fucking hate decorating aarrrrrrrrhhhhh!!!!).
I also have a slight stammer which I am now exagerating (that is s s s so embarrasing)

[joyseph]

What/Who is this "Usher"?

Please excuse my ignorance and humour me.

[BratscheWarrior]

Omeiga con brio es enguiguawn sui muuuux

[true]

DJ defined "doing" as what gives people their shields. So you could, in addition to other definitions, say not-doing is what lowers our shields and makes our gap vulnerable... what allows death to touch us.

A not-doing, if not another definition of not-doing, is to do nothing.
I'm aware of several ways to do nothing:

One is to not respond to thoughts and events that arise as if they mean something personal to you - thoughts and events arise; that's their nature. It doesn't mean you have to do anything about them.

Another is to just be - meditation without an object. It's nearly impossible for most people to just stop and do nothing.

Another is to remove the idea that you are the doer. You do nothing - you are "being done" by the source.

Another is choiceless awareness - simply engaging the actual present moment without thinking, weighing options, decisions... there's only one here and now, what choice do you have?

In zen there is the expression, wu wei, which has been translated as not-doing. From my understanding, it refers to the concept given by Buddha that thoughts arise, yet there is no thinker; deeds are done, but there is no personal doer thereof.

The uninvestigated belief in an individual ego-self which exists distinct and seperate from the world as the subject-object relationship is, IMO, the greatest habit, assumption, routine, doing... that we do. It is the root of all other doing. No other doing is done without the "I" thought first arising.