Things may get a little Odd at times, but they work out. When you work with Wu Wei, you have no real accidents. And when it does, it doesn’t appear to do much of anything. Knowledge tries to figure out why round pegs fit into round holes, but not square holes. Cleverness tries to devise craftier ways of making pegs fit where they don’t belong. Egotistical Desire tries to force the round peg into the square hole and the square peg into the round hole. When you work with Wu Wei, you put the round peg in the round hole and the square peg in the square hole. Mistakes are made–or imagined–by man, the creature with the overloaded Brain who separates himself from the supporting network of natural laws by interfering and trying too hard. Since the natural world follows that principle, it does not make mistakes. Then we work with the natural order of things and operate on the principle of minimal effort. “When we learn to work with our own Inner Nature, and with the natural laws operating around us, we reach the level of Wu Wei.
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