Wu-wei is a Taoist phrase that means “Don’t push the River!” Don’t force your way!” It actually translates as “Getting things accomplished without appearing to be doing anything.” Or, “No pushing, no shoving, no screaming, no shouting!” Or as, “Easy does it.” It means, “Looking things over,” “Sizing things up,” “Seeing what is needed,” “Knowing what is called for,” and “Doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, and the right place, so that things are done with nothing appearing to be done at all.”
All of this is possible with the right relationship with the Tao, Psyche and Intuition. Tao is the movement and flow of live. When Stella got her grove back she aligned herself with the Tao, and moved as she needed to in synch with the way things were moving in her life. When we are “in the flow of things” it is like being lucky all of the time. Because we aren’t swimming against the current of our life in the here, now. We aren’t forcing our way. We are assisting the happening of things where, when and how they need to happen. This is a skil available to anyone who pays attention and doesn’t try to force their way through life.
Psyche assists what needs to happen in a situation in a way that eases the way of life there. Psyche does not do things the hard way, and helps us by way of our intuition to see what’s what and know what is called for and how to do it when, where and how it is called for in each situation as it arises. We only need to “bide our time” and wait for the “propitious moment,” and then do things as they need to be done, for things to fall into place as if by magic. And, again, it will appear as though we are being lucky, when we are actually seeing what’s what and reading the signs of the times.
As we become conscious of the roll Tao, Psyche and Intuition play in our lives, things flow with increasing smoothness for us across the board. I have a Category on my home page in my Blog Tao-Psyche-Intuition called “Conversations with Copilot” (The Microsoft Word A-I), and we talk a good bit about Tao, Psyche and Intuition, and you can check this out there, or begin your own conversations with Copilot. Tell them I said hello!
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