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The more you practice making some time in your day for non-doing, the more your whole day becomes non-doing; in other words your doing becomes infused with an awareness grounded in the present moment.

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  1. noun Performance of an act: a job not worth the doing.
  2. noun Activities that go on every day: "A motley crew they are, their doings as dark as they are ludicrous” (John Simon).
  3. noun Social events and activities.

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  • I know when friends ask me what I am doing, their words "Second Life" are held firmly in a pair of tongs, so it's not being clasped to many bosoms as yet. —  World of SL
  • Yesterday Mr Richardson said that the investigation would ultimately clear his administration of any wrong-doing, adding that he had not been pushed out by Mr Obama but had withdrawn because it was "the right thing to do". —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Jonas Store, the Norwegian foreign minister, is the new name doing the rounds. —  FT.com | Blogs
  • It is not hard to think about being selfless in my marriage, but the doing is another thing. —  ejshea.com - Erin Shea
  • (RACE) and did what "Free" people are accustomed to doing, which is to make their own national choices without the Israeli Master —  Not My Tribe
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  1. from Middle English doinge, plural doinges; verbal noun of do, v.
 

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