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To be at one with the Tao, one must practice wu-wei and refrain from forcing anything to happen that does not happen of its own accord. To be at one with the Tao is to accept that we must yield to a power much greater than ourselves. Through this acceptance of the natural flow of life, and by discarding all learned doctrines and knowledge, a person
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Wei Wu Wei can be translated as ‘doing, non-doing’ or rather ‘doing until we reach the stage of non-doing’.
Damo Mitchell • A Comprehensive Guide to Daoist Nei Gong
Lao-tzu’s essential teaching of wu-wei, on the other hand, illustrates the futility of our attempts to control life. He emphasizes that it is only when you give up forcing or controlling anything that you begin to get the kind of control you always wanted, but never knew existed.
Jason Gregory • Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
Wu Wei
The art of effortless action.
Being at peace while engaged in the most frenetic tasks so that one can carry these out with maximum skill and efficiency.
Being ‘in the zone’ – at one with what we are doing, in a state of profound concentration and flow.
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Here’s my draft for the poetic prose
Wi-Wei is the idea of Non-doing
It’s the opposite of
Common sense which says we must force things - hustle, strive, control -
The flow of dance comes from effortless action
Surprise movement
Not from the mind
From the body
Not predetermined
Created and destroyed in a moment
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... See moreHO-SHANG KUNG says, “To know the unchanging course of the Way is to be free of passion and desire and to yield. To yield is to be free of self-interest. To be free of self-interest is to rule the world. To rule the world is to merge your virtue with that of Heaven. And to merge your virtue with that of Heaven is to be one with the Way. If you can
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Wei-Wu