The Tale Of The Ancient Chinese Wu Wei Masters

Have you ever wondered why for some people things just look so easy?

Wu wei is the cornerstone of Tao philosophy. It means to be in effortless flow. When you are in effortless flow, synchronicity is working for you to bring you to your goals, and all you need to do is be in alignment with this flow. Be "in Synch" in other words.

Taoist sages have noted how fools or amateurs struggle mightily toward a particular goal but achieve little, while masters of any discipline seem to practice their craft effortlessly and achieve outstanding results. Why is that?

My most vivid personal experience of this comes from scuba diving in Monterey Bay, California. There the surge is very strong and will quickly exhaust the inexperienced diver of both their strength and air supply. When you are down 30 or 40 or more feet, and you want to move about, you have two options:

1. Swim as hard as you can in the direction you are going.

2. Use the resources around you to take you there.

In the first instance, you will most likely not make it to your goal, or if you do, you will arrive exhausted, and out of air (and when you’re 40 feet under water, air is precious capital!).

In the second instance, you arrive calm and rested, having used little or no energy of your own. And of equal importance, you have most of your air left.

So what resources did we use to get us there? In this example I used the currents and the kelp. When the current was flowing away from where I wanted to go, instead of fighting it, I simple parked myself by holding on to a kelp head. When the current was going in the direction I wanted to end up, I let go and it whisked me along with very little effort on my part. I repeated this process a few times, and before I knew it – voila – I arrived.

So now let’s look at this metaphor in a different light. In the second example, note how I used the term "resources" to take you there.

In the second example, I saw myself as part of the "whole" and also saw myself working FROM my goal – I was already there! There is no separation in the Taoist’s awareness of wu wei OR the scientist’s awareness of quantum physics for that matter. They are the same awareness.

This is what the sages meant – by being one with all of it, you use "the all of it that you are" to be where you want to end up. In example one I am working from an ego center of "me against it." I’ll fight it and conquer it!

The Tao is telling you that, if you are "it," all you are doing is fighting yourself. This is the great lesson humanity is suffering to learn over and over and over.

In dominion, we are all working as one system, one whole. And from this awareness the resources of the whole universe (uni = one and verse = system) supports me effortlessly – if I let it. This is what is meant by being in the way of the Tao, using the effortless flow of wu wei. It is in our alignment with the oneness that we are that makes our lives appear to flow from a place of effortlessness.

The most important resource in my second example above was the "universal flow" of the currents and the fact that these currents were running in a cycle.

Everything in life runs in cycles, and more to the point, all of these cycles occur in TIME. Time is your greatest free resource, yet you most likely are not putting this resource to work for you.

TIME IS THE UNIVERSAL "CURRENCY" OF LIFE. It is no accident that "currents" and "currency" has the same first five letters in common. We could conduct a whole scholarly dissertation on this point alone.

At the highest level of wu wei, you become one with this synchronicity of Time. But not just any Time! You become one with the synchronicity of YOUR Time – your "Personal Timeline."

In this state of "oneness", if you are a master you are able to act without the use of much of your own energy or resources. To others, you don't seem to do much, and yet you deliver the exact action at the exact right time to accomplish what needs to be done and not one iota more.

You become "but an instrument, grass blown by the wind: the grass is taking the bows but the wind is doing all the work." This may be a poetic explanation, but it paints a very real picture. TimeGnosis is that force behind your moves.

Wu wei is all about approaching oneness with the synchronicity of your Personal Timeline. That synchronicity is omnipresent; it exists everywhere and everywhen. We define it as the underlying current of existence.

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