Wu Wei, Another look

Lao Tzu’s Wu Wei, or no action is his principle teaching. This can be understood as Without Action. There are two aspects of everything, link the Yin and Yang, there is With and Without. The key difference between Christ and Lao Tzu is that Christ is masculine while Lao Tzu is feminine. Remember Lao Tzu saying about the mysterious female? Tao is feminine in nature. Christ says, Love your neighbour like yourself, Lao Tzu says treat everyone as grass dogs. Christ is the active, the With, Lao Tzu is the passive, the Without. Christ loves with passion, Lao Tzu is indifferent and he had peace in his heart.
One of the principles of all Eastern religion or philosophy is non-violence, not harming. Christianity says Love. There is a fundamental difference here.
Lao Tzu says only when beauty is agreed upon, ugliness arises. Now how do you love without hate in a traditional sense? If you don’t want to hate, you must also don’t love. Here is the catch, you can’t just have the “good”, If you want the “good”, you will have the “bad”. You want one end, you must also have the opposite. That is what Lao Tzu says the Saint will embrace oneness, not duality. To do that, the means is Wu Wei.
Wu Wei is also the key to true relaxations. Relaxation is about Withouts. Without tension in the body, without thoughts in your mind. True relaxation will give you strength.

Whose side are you on?

When you watch World Cup Football, do you have a personal favourite? When Federer and Nadal play, who do you want to win? When Israel and Palestinians kill each other, who do you think is evil?
How many judgements do you make in 5 minutes?
Two ladies chats on the train opposite to you. They talk about Brad Pitt and other celebrities you vaguely know. What is going on in your head? How did you judge them?
Come on, let’s not kid ourselves.
We make judgement in a subconscious level. We think we are righteous, we hate evil. Those who are different to us are evils.

Think again.
Is it possible you support Israel simply because you were born as a Jew? If you happened to be born in Palestine, you might be one of the suicide bombers. I don’t want Taiwan to be independent just because I was born in the mainland. Which side do you take seems just a random chance.
Lao Tzu says, The saint is not kind, he treats every one just as the sky is treating the earth. The sky does not care about what we want; it will rain when we planned a BBQ. We, in order to find peace, should be just like the sky. This is Dispassion. The word indifference is a great word. It means don’t care. Why? Because there is no difference. Do not take sides. Get out the predefined circle of you limited birth. Be indifferent. Because there is no difference. Only then is it possible to find peace within.