About Wuwei-Tzu-jan



Wuwei means 'doing by doing nothing'.
Not easy to do...

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The river knows when the river has to flow.
Automatically, spontaneously and without any effort.
Well then: Go with the flow,
don't push the river, it flows by itself.
This is Wuwei- Tzu-jan.



Wuwei is the most important concept in Taoism.
Wuwei is non-dual (nondual) action.
Wuwei is the attitude of being in tune (harmony) with Tao.


Some people think that lying down is better than walking.
But Wuwei involves knowing when to walk and when not.

"When to act and when not to act"
that's also the definition of harmony.


Just breathe


There is nothing so unuseless as doing efficiently
that which should not be done at all.



In Tai Chi Chuan do as little as possible; less is more.
Like water always trying to find the path of least resistance.
Like water trying to find out when to start and when to stop.

Your strength comes from your flexibility.


Tai Chi Classics Taoistic Classics: about the river

The river carves out the valley by flowing beneath it
Thereby the river is the master of the valley.
Lao Tse


Tai Chi Classics Taoistic Classics: about pushing the river

Who recognizes his limitations is healthy
Who ignores his limitations is sick.
Lao Tse


Tai Chi Classics Lin Yutan: About Wuwei.

Besides the noble art of getting done, there is
the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutan



If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon
in a perfectly useless manner,
you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutan


Tai Chi Classics Western classics: About time.

Time is the substance from which I am made.
Time is a river which carries me along,
but I am the river;
it is a tiger that divorce me,
but I am the tiger;
it is the fire that consumes me,
but I am the fire.

Jorge Louis Borges.