Wu Wei

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Wu wei means "no action", it means to be connected, responsive to the world around us, to not spend energy fighting back because it is useless. We can achieve much more by responding instead of resisting.

When we are one with nature, when we live the "Tao", we don't "do" anything, yet with this "non action" we achieve much. It's like a state of flow, a harmony with the universe. A rock doesn't "want" to fall, yet it does. A river doesn't try to carve the rock, and yet it does. When we free ourselves completely from our human desires and actions, we prosper. Like an artist that by not focusing has the best ideas, or how aikido manages to defeat their enemies by using their momentum against them. The less they do (or the more they do nothing), the better off they are.

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🔼Topic:: Mindset (MOC) ↩️Origin:: Tao Te Ching (book) 🔗Link::