Can anyone see the Wu-Wei yet?
This is maybe the 3rd time in the past 4 years that I've tiptoed around this. Each and every time I get crunched by the Bums, lol. I'm hoping that one of these days there will be someone who actually sees the same thing I do. Please feel free to express your feeling that I am crazy.
My idea of the sorcery of wu-wei:
1. Do by not doing.
2. Let the problem come to you, in the form it presents.
3. Do not be premature in grabbing at the problem before it arrives at your doorstep. This would be to act out of fear or anxiety. This is absolutely wrong.
4. Always take the highest action, when you have to make the decision.
5. Do not let your ego affect your decision in any way. This can only be done after much inner work.
6. Then let it go and spin away from you, after you've taken the most loving action the
situation calls for, knowing that it will probably return in a different form.
7. Repeat as many times as necessary.
Is there anyone, anywhere, that can see this being done at the very upper echelon of the U.S government? Getting things done by not-doing?
That is my experience asking monks at Daoist temples to explain the difference. The standard first response is that there is none. If pushed to make some explanation I usually got:
Daojiao - teachings of the Way
Daojia - followers [family] of the Way
To make a distinction seems a more academic effort to take snapshots of time and see the 'process of its evolution' but in the process it misses the 'cumulative and integrative' nature. I think Robinet said it well.
One can always catch this mistake when someone is trying to claim philosophical daoism precedes the religious and then doesn't consider what preceded all that.
