Wei Wu Wei...Doing-Without-Doing

[lillies1978]

sorry, this is a bit of a long read, but worthwhile IMO....enjoy !

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Sue

Not Knowing What To Do
by Nobody

When one does not know what to do, there remains the habitual assumption that one has to be always doing something, trying to accomplish something. If one is always restless, driven and under some compulsion to be active or occupied, how can one develop spontaneous, non-habitual action on the one hand or develop heightened awareness on the other hand? These are fundamental questions one has to learn to ask oneself.

Since ancient times in China, there has been the tradition of the Tao. Oneness- with-the-Tao has nevertheless remained something like an obscure and quaint ideal, like a spiritual aspiration attended by confusion. That something so simple should become complicated by the human brain, whether it is a Chinese brain or some other kind of brain, is the nature of the human brain, which is therefore already a kind of unconscious Oneness-with-the-Tao. Understanding human nature is the beginning of understanding everything.

When one does not know what to do, it is an opportunity to understand everything afresh in some new way, beginning with greater understanding of human nature in general, but, even more importantly, entering consciously into one’s unconscious nature and seeing how one is driven and habitual. Where there is drivenness, there is no Awareness; where there is habitual activity, keeping busy or occupation, there is no Spontaneous Action. Oneness-with-the-Tao reflects itself in oneself personally as Heightened Awareness and Spontaneous Action.

There is Great Energy in Heightened Awareness and Spontaneous Action. Therefore, it is perfectly logical to seek ways to increase one’s personal energy by seeking contact with highly energetic people, situations or activities that can have an energizing affect on oneself. To run one’s appliances, one has to plug them in somewhere, there are necessary higher connections. There is, therefore, a Hidden-Network-of-the-Tao, which in our analogy, is like the electric company and its various power lines. The Hidden-Network-of-the-Tao has plenty of Power, but it does not advertise, socialize or seek domination or exploitation. The Hidden-Network-of- the-Tao is not only in China, but throughout the Earth, the Galaxy, the Timespace Universe and the entire Omniverse. The symbol of the Tao, of Yin and Yang intermingled with a double nucleus, is also the omniversal symbol of the all-recursive cell. The Omniverse is a Macrocosmic Cell, sometimes called the Egg of Brahman. Members of the Hidden-Network-of-the-Tao throughout the Omniverse share this fundamental perspective. Hence, the proliferation of peopled worlds is seen as infinite, eternal and inexhaustible. Every pulsing, living cell in one’s body is a tiny holographic mirror of the Omniverse. To see this is an important aspect of Heightened Awareness when Doing Nothing, Wu Wei. Sat Prem wrote an interesting book called, The Mind Of The Cells, which almost enters into the Tao understanding. An even more important book about Cellular Recursion is the obscure volume called, The History of the Mahabharata, by N.V. Thadani, which contains an extensive explication of the Ontological Cosmogony of the Cell. There is also an interesting hint about the Omniverse, which is called “The Gulf” in H.P.Lovecraft’s story, The Whisperer In The Dark.

When one understands that it is perfectly good to Do Nothing, Wu Wei, one arrives at the Source of real, non-habitual, Spontaneous Action. In ancient Chinese Ts’an/Zen Buddhism, Doing Nothing, Wu Wei, is called Great Essence of Universal Mind, which is Heightened Awareness, and Real Doing, Yu Wei, is called Great Function of Universal Mind, which is Spontaneous Action.

To try to be rigidly inactive after hearing all this would, however, be a neurotic error. Wu Wei, Doing Nothing, has nothing to do with deliberate leaving of one’s mate or quitting one’s job to wander as a starving homeless person. Nor does it mean trying to sit for long hours in a stiff, unnatural posture to the point of pain and discomfort as some battle with the muscles and nerves of one’s body. If one wants to sit quietly for a long time, it would be better to sit immersed in a tank of water or buried in sand, but even such things are totally secondary. Wu Wei, Doing Nothing, is more of a deep shift of one’s perspective on life, of the position of one’s consciousness. It implies what the Mexican Nagual Seers call the Shift or Movement of the Assemblage Point, which requires some helpful boost of energy as in the Kundalini Shaktipat of Siddhayoga in India.

When one does not know what to do, there is already some extra energy in one’s system. One then wants to have something to do—some activity, occupation or entertainment—in order to get rid of that extra energy. If, however, one accepts that extra energy by not rushing thoughtlessly into some activity, chore or escape, something interesting can begin to happen in one’s being. There can be an awakening, a new existential perspective. It can, in fact, become a personal revolution, a liberation. J.Krishnamurti, for one, has written extensively in a non-traditional way on the things that can happen to a person in an outdoor flow of natural beauty when simply open, unforceful and relaxed without being driven or spiritually ambitious. Osho Rajneesh has also written many volumes on similar perspectives.

In Wu Wei, Doing Nothing, one is not rigidly clinging to Inaction or Action as such. It is a Flow State. That is why it is also called Wei Wu Wei, Doing-Without-Doing. It is highly paradoxical to the tense and driven, neurotic, modern mind and body. Neurotic, unhappy people would like to be relieved of onerous work, chores or duties, but do not want to be relieved of busy activity, driven pleasures or superficial socializing. As the German Existentialist Philosopher, Martin Heidegger, once pointed out, such people are so caught up in distracted curiosity and idle talk, that they have no genuine, authentic and individual being at all. Such superficial, unreal, driven, restless and mechanical people are nothing but social units or they-selves. Natural contemplation and Oneness-with-the-Tao are impossible for them, even when they have fleeting excitements about the Occult, Out-of-the-body- experiences, Ghosts, E.S.P., Alien Spaceships (UFO’s) and similar topics.

Now, when one is suddenly accepting that there is a period of open-ended time when not doing anything is perfectly O.K., one can deeply observe that one’s body, brain and nervous system are projecting both a falsely objective surrounding world on to the screen of the unknown, truly objective surrounding world, as well as injecting a false self-image or bodily subject on to the inner screen of one’s Real Self or Being. One can even link this investigation of Reality to one’s breathing by watching for the projection of false objectivity (outer scene) with one’s exhalation and the injection of false subjectivity (personal identity or self-image of ‘being a body’) with one’s inhalation. When you go through the gateway of physical non-duality, natural beauty and the wonder of being alive as a Spirit, can merge your consciousness, mind and sensory information with the Tao. Keep in mind, however, that this has to be a natural, open and relaxed watchfulness of nondual nature, life and breath. If this becomes rigid, forced as a frustration to “get out of the body” or “see God or unusual things”, then there cannot be Heightened Awareness or Spontaneous Action. Tao Meditation is cheerfully eternal-on-the-ground as it were. It is even beyond patience, for patience implies long-range planning and striving of occult ambition. Hence, Tao Meditation is genuine acceptance and disillusionment in all respects. Relaxed Non-dual Witnessing is the deeply profound approach to everything in oneself and one’s world, including one’s breathing and the cells of one’s body in the Recursive Omniverse.

We can say that not needing a breakthrough is the Great Breakthrough! The sudden understanding of this is exactly the Sudden Enlightenment of Zen, as well as the Great Ending, Great Surpassing, Maha Ati or Dzog Chen, of Tibetan Vajrayana as originally transmitted by Padma Sambhava. This sudden all-accepting, peaceful and happy Flow State turns one’s consciousness into something like a river that is entering the boundless ocean and becoming a current in the ocean rather than something seeking the ocean from outside of it.

Not needing to be miraculous is the Great Miracle.

Not needing to be extraordinary is the Great Extraordinariness.

Not needing to be powerful is the Great Power.

Not needing to be wealthy is the Great Treasure.

Not needing to be attractive is the Great Attraction.

Not needing to be socially important is the Great Teacher.

Not needing to change the world is the Great Change.

Not needing to have encyclopedic worldly knowledge is Great Knowledge.

Not being desperate for longevity is the Great Longevity.

Not longing to travel increasingly to other countries or planets among the stars opens the gateway to the Great Cosmic Journey.

Not remaining anxious to know outcomes or the future is the key to Great Time-spanning.

To truly know what is little and what is Great is the Way of Tao in the human psychology. Such knowledge and understanding is a decisive movement from the little heart to the Great Heart. Every atom and every universe are reflected in the Great Heart. All pulsation, vibration or Spanda is felt therein. The Kashmiri Shaiva teaches this and it is very good. It is Atomic Recursion of the Universe. It is Quantum Kundalini Energy working in the Cell and the Omniverse. All bodies reach their full potential in this Way of Tao.

Any act of sex performed with natural Spontaneity in a state of Heightened Awareness is a gateway to the Tao, but where there are hang-ups, guilts, fears, heavy demands, frustrations or neurotic fantasies in dull states of mind coupled with being flat, boring or superficially busy at other times, sex becomes nothing but a field for problems, confusions, conflicts and disappointments, which leads to going forward where one should back away or backing away where one should go forward. Real People of the Tao consider both indiscriminate promiscuity and deadening asceticism to be unhealthy and unbalanced. The same applies to the opposition of monogamy and mindless orgies or pornography. The way one handles one’s sexuality is a mirror of one’s real place in human evolution in the Omniverse. Both wrong sex and anti-sex are positions of little energy and lack the Great Energy. A great deal of human confusion and suffering circulates around the problems of sex. It is a major area where people “do not know what to do or not do”. Wei Wu Wei, Doing-Without-Doing, in sex will alone solve all the problems there and open up the necessary possibilities of it. Sex energy and Divine Bliss energy are two poles of Great Energy.

The Tao is the resolving of all human dilemmas, whether in sex or other zones of human involvement and concern.

The number of members of this Hidden-Network-of-the-Tao on Earth at this time is very small, statistically inconsequential, like the flame of a candle in a brightly lit room of electrical bulbs, yet there are infinite members throughout the Omniverse. Sometimes they are the majority populations of a planet. So there is a Hidden-Network-of-Worlds-of-the Tao. Tao planets are sometimes referred to as “established in Life and Light”. The sick, miserable and ignorant humanity of Earth cannot possibly comprehend such a cosmic fact. Perhaps in some distant aeon there will be a humanity on Earth who will have cosmic comprehension through Oneness-with-the-Tao. Perhaps they will be the predicted Beetle People of Starry Wisdom rather than the present tortured and inferior Monkey People. Whatever the case, the Tao always arranges the perfect result for any situation. In the Tao, there is nothing to worry about. In Cosmic Eternity, it is fleeting and inconsequential that the present people of the planet Earth are sick, miserable and ignorant. Such situations come quickly to a peak and then pass away in favor of alternative arrangements. People of the Tao therefore generally avoid politics. Political activity on Earth is possibly the greatest possible waste of time and life in the entire Omniverse! Never have Taoist teachings been so deeply urgent and necessary, nor never so stupidly ignored in favor of more exciting teachings.

Full investigation of the Tao and learning to merge with It is the most central and significant teaching in the Omniverse.

The Tao can and will liberate you from normal society and its evil government. The Tao will stealthily move you away from your shallow, neurotic relatives and debilitating old associates. The Tao will help you divest yourself of meaningless activities and futile ambitions. The Tao will bring you the knowledge, understanding and illumination you most deeply and profoundly need and secretly yearn for. The Tao will bestow upon you the Peace and Acceptance that have the Full Freedom of the Omniverse. Every cell in your body can be quietly lit-up with the Tao.

Not knowing what to do is the most wonderful thing that can happen to a human being. During such an interlude, one enters into an intemporal, timeless possibility that can fuse space, resulting in what Tarthong Tulku has pointed out as Great Time and Great Space. The causal body of phenomenological timespace consciousness can go into suspension, revealing the higher Self of Tao Oneness, which is what Rajayoga calls Kevala Samadhi. That cessation of the chitta-vrtti, functions-of- consciousness, is what is called Stopping in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. So, simply Doing Nothing can be a hugely important experience of one’s most real and enduring being. One can just relax and open up to everything everywhere without stress or strain. One takes a little vacation from one’s stupid and neurotic personal, social or even spiritual problems. Not knowing what to do shifts from having a problem to an entry into peaceful acceptance. The horribly stupid World Situation and Future melt away into the Grand Here and Now of Tao. Transcending both harmfulness and compassion, one no longer sees a humanity worth saving or evil leaders worth killing. The Great Experience of stopping-the-world and stopping-consciousness, reveals true Reality. Reality slightly includes ignorant, empty Earth humanity and its evil leaders, but is utterly beyond such trivial aberrations. The ongoing global insanity is unimportant. It will end naturally sooner or later. The Hidden-Network-of-the-Tao does not try to end it artificially. To enter into artificial relationship with stupid, miserable and evil humanity would only make oneself stupid, miserable and evil through contamination. Even a Benign Alien Invasion of the Earth to eliminate evil and save humanity is basically artificial, aberrated and futile. The Earth and humanity are not worth such meddling and trouble. To leave the Tao to do outer good has always been a big mistake. Only that good that arises naturally within the Tao can possibly work out for an enduring harmony.


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