Sentences with phrase «wu wei»

Maybe wu wei — by not doing, all things are done?

With a range of references to the Kabbalah as well as the Taoist philosophy of wu wei (loosely translated as «letting go»), Milder's encyclopedic passion for codes challenges viewers to draw out the meaning of the symbols in his paintings.

Invoking the term wei wu wei, or «action that is non-action,» she describes her process as one that is liberating and based in instinct.

His concept of wu wei — roughly translated as «action without action» — lends itself to a temperament that believed «sought out suffering is a mistake / But what comes to you free is enlightening.»

Its Chinese name, «wu wei zi», translates to...

The Taoist way of life, known as wu wei.

Of course, in one sense these Zen formulations are paradoxes that are intended to instill nonattachment and nonaction (wu wei).

The Taoist category of wu wei («doing nothing») illuminates the meaning of Zen affirmation, for it is an affirmation in which nothing is done or said.

Whether by way of the wu wei or inaction of Taoism and Zen, or the Yogic discipline of emptying the contents of consciousness, or the purposeless action of the Bhagavad Gita, the way of Oriental religions is a way backwards.

Scientific method is not equipped to deal with wu wei (nonaction).

Not exact matches

The Tao, the ultimate principle of reality, is said to exercise its influence on nature and man not by active causation but by wu - wei, an untranslatable term for «active inaction» or, as I would prefer, «effective non-interference» or «non-interfering effectiveness.»

This felt contrast between solitariness and community is the empirical datum which underlies the multitude of religious symbols, such as creation, incarnation, resurrection, nirvana, samsara, moksha, tao, wu - wei, t» ien, each of them, in their wide variety of forms and connotations, pointing to some aspect of organic life together.

to suggest that the ideals of wu - chih and wu - wei are simply in some fundamental sense «better» than the Western paradigms of active, instrumental knowing and the pursuit of power or greatness.

Wu - yu is the concept of objectless desire, which is the subjective form of feeling associated with instances of wu - chih and wu - wei.

Hall discusses the concept together with that of wu - wei, «non-assertive action,» a notion which «suggests spontaneous actions in accordance with the natures of things.»