Responsible and focused deep self-exploration can help us come to terms with the trauma of birth and make a deep spiritual connection. This moves us in the direction of what Taoist spiritual teachers call wu wei, or “creative quietude,” which is not action involving ambitious determined effort, but “doing by being.” This is also sometimes referred

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If The Art of Fencing were published today, it might become an instant best seller, at least if the second part of the treatise lived up to its promise: “how you can always beat your opponent” if it’s a competition of “two people of the same size, same strength, and same weapons.” But here again, our modern perspective might make us completely miss

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