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The Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu told this story:
Sharon Salzberg • Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Classics)
WU CH’ENG says, “The sage seeks without seeking and studies without studying. For the truth of all things lies not in acting but in doing what is natural. By not acting, the sage shares in the naturalness of all things.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
Chuang Tze was one of Taoism’s strongest advocates of wu-wei, which he defined as ‘getting things done by doing nothing’.
Daniel Reid • The Tao Of Health, Sex And Longevity
The Taoism of Lao-tzu was about the Way, the Tao, which is something we experience when we are more attentive to our inner and outer worlds. The Tao can be followed and experientially known when we have surrendered our controlled, conditioned identity over to the effortless realm of spontaneity and trust, wu-wei. This effortless realm is why the Ta
... See moreJason Gregory • Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
CHUANG-TZU says, “The ancients ruled the world by doing nothing. This is the Virtue of Heaven. Heaven moves without moving” (Chuangtzu: 12.1).
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
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.