Wú wéi, niets doen

The Sage is occupied with the unspoken

and acts without effort.

Teaching without verbosity,

producing without possessing,

creating without regard to result,

claiming nothing,

the Sage has nothing to lose.

Ik zoek wat over Wúwéi, later op deze morgen, de zachte stem en klanken van Whitacres virtual choir nog hemels op de achtergrond...


A miracle, leek het wel, ik nog aan de ochtendschoonmaak, iemand stortte anoniem €100,- bij op de sponsorsite!

Love does not allow any manoeuvre on your part. It happens. It happens suddenly out of the blue. It is a gift. Just as life is a gift, love is a gift. The way of the heart or the way of love or the way of wu-wei – they all are the same. They insist that the doer has to be dropped, forgotten, and you have to live your life not as a manipulator.

You have to live your life as a flow of the unknown. Don’t move upcurrent and don’t try to push the river. Flow with the river. The river is already going to the sea. You just be one with the river and it will take you to the sea.

There is no need even to swim. Relax… and let the river take you. Relax… and let god possess you. Relax… and let the whole take the part. Doing means the part is trying to do something against the whole, the part is trying to have its own will against the whole.

Wúwéi, we deden niets.


Tao, al zo lang een oefening: niets doen, niets zijn.


Plots helemaal helder.