From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Thu Jul 15 2004 - 00:31:47 BST
Dear forum,
It may be argued that one who recognises incoherence has proved the existence
of coherence.
Taoism leads to a relaxed but intensely aesthetically attentive attitude
summed up in the concept of wu-wei - "knowing when to stop". Wu-wei is literally
"non-action", but it means only a lack of the illusory mental striving and
comically overdone tension that normally is mistaken for action anyway. It is
doing everything totally without breaking off from it to self-check all the time.
It is not dimming the resonance of your thought by splitting it against
itself. It's easy to see here how martial arts developed from T'ai Ch'i (which
system itself is based on imitation of various animals' movements).
http://www.uncarved.org/OOO/watts.html
On the other hand, I have spent some time online and in the library learning
more about Taoism and trying to form a clear connection between this ancient
way of living and the technology of writing. I will discuss the specific
materials a bit later in this section, but first, based on my early explorations, I
concluded that Taoism is a philosophy of creativity, utility and joy. From
this general impression and after my preliminary research, I identified ten
principles of the Tao of writing:
Writing is creative
Writing demands unattachment
Writing is discovery
Writing is change
Writing is unity
Writing is flow (coherence)
Writing is simplicity
Writing is clarity
Writing is universal yet personal
Writing is open-ended
http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/wahlstrl/301w/isearchrw-tao.html
Why are you so unhappy?
Why are we so unhappy?
Because everything you do
and 99 percent of what you think
is for yourself.
And there isn't one.
—Wu Wei, 12th Century
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