[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Perspective]] - People: [[Alan Watts]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeD3wS4fGEY --- ## Summary - [[Do what is necessary only, when it is necessary.]] - [[The ideal is unnatural naturalness or natural unnaturalness]]. - You may realize you don't know what you want. Look inward instead of outward. - Visit [[The quiet|The quiet place]], and what you want (what you need) will reveal itself. - [[Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone]]. ## Notes ### Wu Wei - [[Wu wei]] - The Chinese principle of no-action or not-forcing. - [[The ideal is unnatural naturalness or natural unnaturalness]]. - Unnatural action requires force. Force can be perceived as inauthentic. An example is when someone does something they're not used to doing it. It seems unnatural; artificial. - It isn't about doing nothing. It isn't about being totally passive. - [[Do what is necessary only, when it is necessary.]] - We Wei is based on the knowledge of [[The drift of things]]; the motions of life; [[The art of sailing rather than the art of rowing]]. ### Naturalness > "[[I do not hit, it hits all by itself]]." - Bruce Lee. - It is transforming intention to instinct; transcending it. - To be; to become. Not to do, nor to try. [[Be sovereign in yourself]].\ - To undergo the [[The four stages of competence]], where intention and action become as natural as breathing. - [[Drawing is breathing]] - [[Kim Jung Gi]]. - Intentionally going against the rules is still following the rules, but in reverse. ### The void & clarity - The void. That which is appears to be nothing is actually everything. - Space, which appears to be nothing, is the foundation of the universe. - You may realize you don't know what you want. Look inward instead of outward. Visit [[The quiet|The quiet place]], and what you want (what you need) will reveal itself. - [[Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone]]. - [[Clarity begins with curiosity]]. A sense of wonder and the courage to ask why. - We are taught not to question. To begin to question, you must check your logic and opinions at the door; don't throw it out. Checking it at the door allows you to pick it back up again when you go out, if you feel unsafe without it. Temporarily suspend them. - See things for what they truly are. [[View what is, as if you didn't even know how to talk]]. - Close your eyes. Listen. What do you truly and honestly hear? ## See also - [[Be water]]