#non-doing

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☯️Tao Te Ching☯️ (Wey Wu Wey[?]) - 'the way of non-action' ~1:40:00

7 Hermetic Principles - ☿ The Kybalion ☿

Although I always want to do things— Incredible things, unspeakable things, Things terrible, noble, sublime, and godlike, Things that could only be done On the horizon of the end of the world; Where all humanity would be condensed in a single action For the glory and eternity of my spirit and my spirit alone,

This fanatical fire collapses under its own weight; Consumed in liminal spaces, it goes nova in the realm of dreams, Ultimately eclipsed by the pressing, unremitting mundane: Everyday and Everyman. And the conflagration is seen by the world only as a distant light, A dim and dying ember: these words.

Then, with my head still warm, I begin to think of the lilies of the fields: “How they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin”, And how the spinning is done entirely by the world itself Without any eagerness or laid out plan, But manifesting the implicate order. 

And I think of the Way, and how everything is perfect, A perfection that brings tears to my eyes (There is ecstasy in understanding this, And I'm ravished by this thought): This world does not demand more fire To bring about anything—it has enough To create and destroy, freely, aggressively and joyously,

until finally you arrive at non-action.

When nothing is done,

nothing is left undone.

Ryokan

Last week Tina Fey did a satiric sketch that caused some controversy, because it appeared that she was telling people to stay home and do nothing in response to the neo-Nazi and white supremacist rallies and marches. Personally, I thought it was funny and edgy social commentary, although I agree that some of what she said was problematic. I don’t think she was seriously advising us to do nothing…