WU WEI = Action Through Inaction

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WU WEI = ACTION THROUGH INACTION / An understanding of Taoist (or Daoist) principles is benefiting to us as modern beings whose ‘causality’ approach to life is very often an anathema to the timeless TAO (or way) of the universe.
How many countless scenarios play out before us that we feel compelled to change? Do we engage in interactions through which we intend to prevent, prepare or secure an outcome? Whether we are at the seat of the momentum or a participant on a macro-cosmic level, force-of-will moves to create specified responses to our desires. Whatever must be asserted & managed is necessarily skewed to a particular perspective and liable to subsequent folly.

Taoism values balance, receptivity & emptiness. Many problems arise from too much re-acting, striving & controlling.

‘TAO is eternally inactive, and yet it leaves nothing undone.’ / A Taoist’s pivot is active in cultivating a sense of awareness of the ways of the universe and one's part herein. Cultivating a state of being that flows & responds with minimal action for our efforts reflects WU WEI. This is not an expression of laziness or a lack of interest, but rather effortless efficiency. Guided by elemental rhythms of the natural world as well as supernatural and alchemical influence, a classical Taoist finds an earthly pivot in WU WEI. Letting all things play out, not engaged by will and ego, but keenly observant of an authentic progression of every moment is WU WEI. We are neither caring nor uncaring and yet WU WEI does not imply overlooking those who are afflicted. WU WEI may be considered an experience of one's life path that is clear of wrote emotional reactions favoring a pivot where one acts rather than reacts and one allows rather than resists changes.

Action by non-ACTION thereby allows an evolution to take place instead of revolution and conditions that might further extremes. / The Taoist path of WU WEI is neither difficult, nor easy. By observing and simply 'being' we come to sense the natural & the super natural and align with the way (or TAO). Mirroring the universe we become whole. Our experiences & interests in the outside world become synergistic and complete. “Cherish the people and order the kingdom, and you can do without meddlesome action." "If kings & nobles could but hold fast to this principle, all things would work.”

Remember: These ideas are most valuable when they are absorbed slowly & applied loosely to everyday life.

“THE TAO THAT CAN BE NAMED IS NOT THE ETERNAL TAO”