Definition: Nondoing

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Revision: 10 June 2026

Nondoing

The absence of efforting.
The absence of doing by the small self that thinks it is the doer.
“Nondoing doing” is effortless accomplishment.
In nondoing doing, the small self does nothing. All is done by the one Self, the real Doer, at a higher order of being.
All doing that seems to occur in time is a process of coming into congruence with what already is eternally.
On the journey of awakening to reality and truth, there is a recognition that nothing really needs to be done because all that is true is already done. Using the Ladder of Awakening as a metaphor, this recognition comes just before the tenth rung.