Tag: effortlessness
In Attention
What goes on in one’s mind when one is engaged in a task? Lately, I have been playing with the idea of “focus” as a similar phenomenon to hunger. Sometimes a lack of appetite is not a concern—one may simply not be hungry; likewise, a lack of singular attention may be an indication of a…
What is not learning: 無為 (wú wéi) and good governance
That is what the pursuit of the 道 (dào) entails: an action that leads to less and less doing until there is no doing at all. However, this is not an empty sort of doing because “nothing is left undone” still. 無為 (wú wéi) is not just a “not doing” but an action-less action. Such…