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Doing Non-Doing
The spiritual concept of non-doing. It’s the principle of natural action. Doing from a point of being. Known in Taoism as wu wei, but more specifically I will be talking of wei wu wei. It is a sort of paradoxical concept, but one I find very helpful. Doing non doing. There is a lot of concern…
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Do With Your Heart
Do you have a very difficult time doing anything without your heart being involved? Then don’t exclude your heart. It isn’t necessary. The only way it’s ‘meant’ to be done (if that word has any meaning at all) is the way it’s naturally done. People often expect great mystical events from meditation, yet most often…
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Cooperating with our Strengths
We have to cooperate with others, but you aren’t cooperating if some principle mandates it. You co-operate when you are still being you, and working with the other who is who they are. Some say we have to compromise but it depends on your definition of compromise. You can compromise your contribution out of existence.…
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Non Doing Meditation
When you meditate that is non doing, but many people see it as a special state of mind. We meditate to get in touch with the now and who we are now. It isn’t by any struggle that we can do this. Struggle prevents this. Yet people even struggle to not think or do anything…
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Endless Struggle
In trying to ‘non do’ you find yourself doing, again back to the struggling. That is the essence of doing non doing. Like thought, action arises. Thought being its precursor. You can allow action to occur through you without disturbance and without anxiety. If you experience the doing instead of trying to be the doing,…
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Have You Seen Your Soul Lately?
How are we aware of our soul? Well, awareness of the soul is scary. Like in the Egyptian book of the dead, it’s the encounter with a mirror. It’s an awareness of what about you can die and what changes. That can make people feel very insecure. But unless you will see what changes, you won’t…
Category: Action
Does non doing suggest belief in a greater order? Perhaps a lesser order. It can be seen as just accepting what you are. You don’t have to see it as metaphysical. You can see it as just very realistic.
To the left, and to the right, to the left again, and to the right. Forever we march never realizing that we march in circles. The center is a vital root. If you would know strength in your path as you chose it, the center is still necessary.
“When one seeks to regulate something,
he is in fact going contrary to it.
Where he seeks to embellish something,
he is in fact harming it..
Nonaction does not mean being completely inert,
but rather that nothing is initiated from the ego-self.”
— Huai Nan Tzu, translated by Roger T. Ames