Friday, December 20, 2013
Empty Space and Reverse Effort
Chinese Taoism teaches the concept of "Empty Space." The most important part of a room, for example, is not the doors or windows, but the empty space in it! In life, we need to step into such empty spaces for new things to start. You are living Taoism - empty space. Taoism also teaches "Wu-WEI," the Law of Reverse Effort. It says we can try too hard; the result is damage to ourselves. Taoism teaches "good enough," not perfect. Think Wu-Wei now. Empty Space and Wu-Wei. As Taoism teaches, good swimmers never struggle, push. They glide, do just enough to stay afloat and move ahead for the long haul. We grew up when perfect mattered. It does not now, except to ourselves, our inner conscience. We never want to violate conscience. However, good enough does not have to violate conscience, especially if it keeps up afloat, buoyant, and swimming across the river.
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