Wu-Wei
Awareness
  

Wu Wei is a fundamental principle in the Taoist way of life, sometimes translated as creative inaction or knowing when to act and when not to act. The literal meaning of wu wei is "without action". Perhaps it's better described as an irresistible form of "soft and invisible" power, an action that is so subtle, so well in accordance with the nature of things, that there is no trace of having done the action.

There is also another uncommon interpretation of wu wei; an effortless, struggle-free action similar to patient allowing that flows from a deep awareness; from the recognition and acceptance of the way things are.

Taoism respects both yin and yang, light and darkness as two sides of the one coin. In the original Taoist texts wu wei is often associated with water and its yielding nature. Although water is soft and weak, it has the capacity to erode solid stone and move mountains. Water is without will, it uses the will of the terrain. Water may fill any container, assume any shape, may even go into the minutest holes.

Taoist philosophy recognises that the Universe already works harmoniously according to its own ways; and wu wei is the art of how one acts in relation to these natural processes already extant. Wu wei provides a subtle momentum that leads the practitioner closer and closer to the recognition of oneness with the ineffable mystery.

"Whatever is to be made to fall, first must be raised.
If you want to become whole, first let yourself become broken.
If you want to become straight, first let yourself become twisted.
If you want to become full, first let yourself become empty."
~Tao












Closer than close.
You cling and resist, you cling and resist,
and you cling and resist.
What you call life is clinging.
And then there is the unexpected.
Seeing and recognising choicelessness,
you have reached the end of the world.
Perfection, there was never anything else...




Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha."
Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely gone beyond, awakening praised.

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