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On Doing Not Doing

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Oakley Gordon

Out beyond ideas…there is a field, I’ll meet you there. Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) I first ran into the concept of ‘not doing’ in the works of Carlos Castaneda. His early books, particularly Journey to Ixtlan and Tales of Power had a big effect on me when I was a young man. Later in my life I ran into ‘not doing’ again when I began working with don Americo Yabar. And more recently, I have run across it, in a most beautiful and pragmatic way, in the book A … Continue reading →

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Internal Dialog

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Oakley Gordon

We have 10,000 thoughts a day…and 8,000 of them are the same thoughts we had yesterday.–Buddhist saying. Our ‘internal dialog’ is the constant flow of thoughts we have about the world and our condition in it as we move through the day. While this flow of thoughts may contain images for many of us it also contains an internal dialog, a flow of comments that represent our evaluation of what is going on. I am going to start by belittling the internal dialog and then when I’m finished I’ll come … Continue reading →

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