There is an immense difference between "Do-Nothing Farming" and neglect, he learned, just as there is a difference between wu wei (non-doing), and not doing anything at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By the end of my second week of mindful non-doing, something began to poke through the noise and clutter of my mind. ❋ Stephanie Bennett Vogt (2012)
But they bring no solutions, so get that non-doing crap out of here. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Of course, we may need to be networked and busy for much of the day, but if we can spend that last hour before bed with "non-doing" activities that slow the pace of our life, it can help make sure that in our increasingly digital, networked lives we do not create greater imbalance -- an imbalance that is often most noticeable at bedtime. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The third is to make space for and trust moments of silence or non-doing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Lao-Tzu encourages us in the Tao te Ching: "Practice non-doing, and everything will fall into place." ❋ Unknown (2009)
This process actually burns up destructive impulses in the fires of concentration and equanimity and non-doing. ❋ William Harryman (2007)
Even if we all agree that learning by doing is better than learning by listening to an authority, I would suggest that we need to think about how to integrate non-doing an active, not a passive concept into our learning strategies. ❋ Peter Isackson (2006)
Doing and/or non-doing, formal and/or informal skip to main ❋ Peter Isackson (2006)
On the question of learning by doing, it might be useful to expand our cultural horizon by introducing a nuance in the form of an apparent opposite: the Taoist concept wu wei or “non-doing”. ❋ Peter Isackson (2006)
From seventy centuries of Indian History, praise is found for non-doing. ❋ Unknown (1966)
Special cases only are excepted, as the one alluded to in the text where certain prohibited actions are enumerated under the heading of vows; for as a vow is considered as something positive, the non-doing of some particular action must there be understood as intimating the performance of some action of an opposite nature. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
This, however, would be possible only on condition that a mere non-doing were in general a moral possibility. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
When I do not severely reproach a person who is inwardly and deeply ashamed and humiliated because of his sin, but tenderly spare him, this is not a mere non-doing of that which I might do, not a mere limiting of my punitive activity, but it is the very opposite of this. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
The moral non-doing of a morally prohibited action is in and of itself necessarily the doing of the contrary. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
Here there is no room for a mere passive bearing; here the mere non-doing, the mere not respecting the divine presence, is an offending of ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
The moral law is therefore per se always twofold; it is command and prohibition at the same time, and consequently there is in fact no essential difference whether the law appears in the one or in the other form; and as the moral life of man is a continuous one, hence he must at every moment of time be fulfilling a divine law; a mere non-doing would be a negation of the moral. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
