Tag: non-action
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Keep Your Pants On
Guy comes flying into a parking space as I’m locking my bike up at the grocery store. Coming in hot.Like… if his foot slips, I’m part of the asphalt. So I give him the look. And you know how fast things escalate.This thing can go a million ways right now. Most of them bad. All I actually want……
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Say Anything? Say Nothing—Say Everything: It’s Not-Not Zen #001
Read time 3 minutes. Played by John Cusack, Lloyd Dobler is a walking contradiction: still, emotional, unpredictable—and somehow timeless. Lloyd Dobler doesn’t want to buy anything, sell anything, or process anything.He just wants to be here. Now. With her. Meanwhile, the rest of Say Anything is full of people tangled in their own identity loops and trying…
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Stillness and the Path To Transformation: The Butterfly Cause
Read time 2 minutes. In this article we explore the benefits of embracing quietude and stillness. Caterpillars, butterflies and transformation. This metaphor is a bit tired, a bit worn out. It needs, yes, some new life. There is a bridge between the old and the new, the familiar and the unknown. That bridge is not…
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Wu Wei: Self-reliance As Radical Liberation
Read time 6 minutes. Wu Wei is a stand alone article in our series regarding paradox. Wu wei is one of Taoism’s most vital and misunderstood concepts. Often translated as non-action or effortless action, it can sound like passivity. But that’s not it. Wu wei is not about avoiding action—it is about action so attuned to Tao that effort disappears.…