Awakened doing is Eckhart Tolle's term for action that flows from present-moment awareness rather than from the ego, carried out through one of three modalities: acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm.
Tolle develops the idea in 📝A New Earth (2005), where he separates a person's outer purpose, what they do, from their inner purpose, the state of consciousness they bring to it. Awakened doing is the alignment of the two. Acceptance fits tasks that simply have to be done, enjoyment arises when the activity itself is the point, and enthusiasm adds a goal or vision to that enjoyment. In Tolle's words:
The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all from the most simple task to the most complex.
A related reflection from Sam Harris turns the question toward whether a thing is worth doing at all:
There's a saying in business. I don't know who said it first. That something that isn't worth doing isn't worth doing well. There's a lot of truth to that. Notice those times when you're poised to commit significant resources of time or attention to something and take an extra moment to consider whether this thing is really worth doing. If it is, great. But not everything will survive these extra moments of scrutiny. It's really as another aspect of mindfulness, clear comprehension of what one is doing. And why
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