Tag: reading
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…
To read or not to read
There was a short fiction book I started reading last year and after a day of pain-staking—that is, with much, much pain—comprehending, I decided to put it down. It has been more than a year since and I have yet to feel the need to pick it up again, wherever it is now. I had…