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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

doerless en · ADJ

Etymology

From doer + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not involving a doer.
    • Silence in action is the doerless doing that we've spoken of before, in which you just wash the dishes, just vacuum the floor. 1999, Sharon Salzberg, Voices of Insight:
    • If you still assert that a deed is being done then that deed must be regarded as doerless. 1898, Sarat Chandra Das, “Buddhist Account of the Four Vedas”, in Journal of the Buddhist Text and Anthropological Society, page 9:
    • Wu wei is the principle of following the Tao, the doerless doing with which Sabro Hasegawa created a work of art and out of which the great spiritual masters live their lives. 1999, David Guy, The Red Thread of Passion, page 124: