Wu Wei Wu - doing without doing
Wu Wei Wu - the art of doing without doing, or acting without action is a profound spiritual principle which comes for the Tao Te Ching. This may be one of the greatest challenges to anyone on a spiritual path. We are told to sit in mediation and affirmative prayer, yet we long to ACT! I am reminded of how often I have simply wanted someone to "just tell me what to do" and I'll go do it, to fix whatever pain I was feeling or whatever part of my life wasn't working.
It takes time to realize that doing without doing is a state of being that comes out of our meditation and prayer practices. It means that we know "doing" won't actually fix things. Consciousness is cause, so we must first still our minds and change our consciousness; when we have done this, then our actions and our doing arise out of this quiet, confident state of spiritual truth. Thus our actions are not actually us acting or doing to make something happen, our actions are actually our prayers being answered and our consciousness manifesting.
In other words, rather than acting to act or doing to do, we move in our lives out of stillness and faith. Thus our doing is just a simple and natural out-picturing of our healed consciousness, and it doesn't feel like we are "doing" anything at all. Our actions become the outward dance of our already answered prayers, so much so that it hardly seems like we are "acting" but rather simply being where we need to be, doing what needs to be done, in the perfect time for that particular doing.
All of which helps us relax into our true state of Being, and no longer run around frantically trying to figure out what the right thing to do is!
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