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_____------____--- t1_j7nilhz wrote

Reply to comment by Dragon_Fisting in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin

Grasping and letting go are both actions. Wu-wei is the pattern of nature. It's in the nature of raindrops to fall from the sky when it rains. The raindrop doesn't TRY to fall from the sky. It makes no choices. It follows the "Tao."

When we no longer view separation between self and environment, the delusions of control and self dissipate. Wu wei is how you live after. It's how you lived before too, but now that you get it, you don't spend your life pressing the elevator button so hard your fingers bleed. Pressing the button harder doesn't make it work better, but it hurts the presser.

Not correcting or arguing. Just sharing what I thought while reading you post.

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Dragon_Fisting t1_j7o0kwq wrote

That's a good point. There is a distinction between letting things go, which is action, and Wu Wei, which is more of a state

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