"To attain knowledge add something every day, to attain wisdom remove something every day."
Wu Wei is not doing or doing without doing. When you have learned how to do something to the point where you don't have to think about it while you are doing it.
Wu Wei is going with the flow, unencumbered by having to think the situation through. There is a time for analysis and there isn't. If you analyze everything you will find life rather frustrating.
There is neither rhyme nor reason for much of what happens.
This is not about the Eric Hoffer book but he still might turn up from time to time.
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2 comments:
It's so very difficult at times to "turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream" when completely surrounded by inescapable noise and symbolism. I sometimes think that life would be so much more simple away from society, like Thoreau, at Walden Pond. Perhaps it is indeed so much easier to be a holy man on the mountain.
The challenge, and with it, the reward, is to learn instead to live life on life's terms . . . to find serenity not so much from having been sheltered from life's storms as from learning to safely weather them and to find contentment from succesfully doing so.
Although it's true that we sometimes find that the accounts our investments have been accruing interest in are not those that we had originally intended, it is often just as true that we eventually discover that where our deposits have instead been made are immeasurably more lucrative than those we would have chosen for ourselves.
I recognize these brain waves. Have you been reading Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen?
I detect a second thought process in this comment. Some people pay their dues in the natural course of their lives while some other people may be paying dues as a matter of intention.
Mastery allows one to block extraneous input. Geography is irrelevant.
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