So what constitutes a doing? Anything you do in a consistent way, without thinking, that reflects you as the personality or program, is a doing. A doing might be the way you interrupt people when they speak, not allowing them to finish what they are saying. Or perhaps the way that you are cutting with your sense of humor, or the way you talk down to people to make yourself look better. When you feel threatened, a doing might be how you use your intelligence to keep people away from you. Even your internal dialogue is a doing. Anything you do that another person can identify as your particular behavior pattern is a doing.
Some of you might be thinking, 'What about my positive doings?' If some of your doings are causing happiness and joy in your life there is no reason to address them right now. But if your doings are sabotaging your life in subtle and not so subtle ways, this definitely deserves immediate attention. In the end, a Warrior will eliminate even his "positive" doings as they are still programmed activities and his ultimate goal is freedom.
Our doings are simply a result of putting ourselves on autopilot and letting our program live our lives for us. For us to discover the remarkable beings that we are, it's necessary for us to stop our doings and the internal dialogue that prompts them. Our thinking is the main support for our seeing the world as we do and for our particular way of interpreting everything that happens to us. The challenge is to force ourselves to see the world differently so that we can experience it differently, and, as a result, create our lives differently. Every time we do something that purposely goes against what we believe or is different from what we normally would do, we expand ourselves and our possibilities exponentially.
The above was reprinted from the book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Toltec Wisdom by Sheri A Rosenthal, DPM
