An unfamiliar act which engages our total being by forcing it to become conscious of its luminous segment. (Eagle, 18)

To teach me how to master it, he used to make me walk for miles with my eyes fixed and out of focus at the level just above the horizon so as to emphasize the peripheral view. (Eagle, 135)

Gaze at trees and rocks as a not-doing of dreaming. (Eagle, 137)

The first deliberate step to storing personal power was to allow the body to not-do. (long) (Ixtlan, 217)

I am going to talk about not-doing, in spite of the fact that there is no way to talk about it, because it is the body that does it.
Not doing is so difficult and powerful that you should not mention it until you have stopped the world; only then can you think about it freely, if that’s what you’d want to do. (Ixtlan, 226)

Take that rock for instance. To look at it is doing, but to see it is not-doing.
The world is the world because you know the doing is involved of making it so, if you didn’t know it’s doing, the world would be different. (Ixtlan, 227)

Now, in order to stop the world you must stop doing.
So the proper thing to do, which a warrior does if he wants to stop the world, is to enlarge the little rock, or any other thing, by not doing. (Ixtlan, 228)

The not-doing of objects and making power objects (Ixtlan, 229)

That’s the problem with talking. It always makes one confuse the issues. If one starts talking about doing on always ends up talking about something else. It is better to just act. (Ixtlan, 227)

(Long) A warrior, on the other hand, acts in both instances if things are said to be untrue, he would still act in order to do not-doing. (Ixtlan, 230)

Exercise with the hand (sorcery pass)
Let’s say you can feel them (the lines of the world). The most difficult part of the warrior’s way is to realize that the world is a feeling. When one is not-doing, one is feeling the world, and one feels the world through the lines. (Ixtlan, 232)

Not-doing is very difficult. It is not a matter of understanding but of mastering it. Seeing, of course, is the final accomplishment of a man of knowledge, and seeing is attained only when one has stopped the world through the technique of not doing.
He replied that once one had arrived at a certain level of personal power, exercise or any training of that sort was unnecessary, since all one needed to be impeccable form, was to engage oneself in not-doing. (Ixtlan, 233)

Shadows are like doors, the doors of not-doing. A man of knowledge, for example, can still tell the innermost feelings of men by watching their shadows. (Ixtlan, 234)

Crossing the eyes to see shadows. (Ixtlan, 235)

Don’t turn not-doing into a doing. (Ixtlan, 236)

I had proceeded correctly, that by reducing the world I had enlarged it, and that although I had been far from feeling the lines of the world, I had correctly used the shadows of the rocks as a door to not-doing. (Ixtlan, 237)

A warrior doesn’t need to believe, because as long as he keeps on acting without believing, he is not-doing.
During the day shadows are the doors of not-doing. But at night, since very little prevails in the dark, everything is a shadow, including the allies. (Ixtlan, 238)

It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself on either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the not-doing of the self. (Ixtlan, 239)

We have been taught to agree about doing. You don’t have any idea of the power that that agreement brings with it. But fortunately, not-doing is equally miraculous and powerful. (Ixtlan, 253)

This is your world, he said, pointing to the busy street outside the window. You are a man of that world. And out there, in that world, is your hunting ground. There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into his hunting ground. As a hunter, the warrior knows the world is made to be used. So he uses every bit of it. A warrior is like a pirate that has no qualms in taking and using anything he wants except the warrior doesn’t mind or he doesn’t feel insulted when he is used and taken himself. (Ixtlan, 254)