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Wu Wei – Stop Trying Too Hard
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu
For some Personal Development seems to mean a lot of hard work, or even the opposite of how they would like to live. While it is good to have some challenges, the real mastery comes when things get easy again. By easy I don’t mean no problems, I mean that life flows naturally as in the principle of Wu Wei.
Wu Wei - Action of Non-Action
Wu Wei (chinese, literally “non-doing”) is an important concept of Taoism and means natural action, or in other words, action that does not involve struggle or excessive effort. Wu wei is the cultivation of a mental state in which our actions are quite effortlessly in alignment with the flow of life. This going with the flow, although it may be greatly productive, is characterized by great ease where we spontaneously act perfectly.
This means that we do the right thing effortlessly and spontaneously, without trying. Read more
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