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	Non-doing

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6-25-2007 3:54 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d5b9c636-5e4d-48ba-8aba-07f9934bc569/E696146E-7DF6-45B1-83A1-ADB0F2FB5088/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.taopage.org/nondoing.html" href="http://www.taopage.org/nondoing.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.taopage.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.taopage.org/nondoing.html"><FONT size="+2" face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman" color="#000000">What is Wu-Wei (nondoing)?</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.taopage.org/nondoing.html"><P align="left"><I><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman" color="#000000">Wu-wei</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman" color="#000000">, </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman">usually translated as <I>nonaction</I>, <I>inaction</I> or <I>nondoing</I>, is one of the most important </FONT><A target="_blank" href="http://www.taopage.org//taoism.html"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman">Taoist</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman"> concepts. When linked to the </FONT><A target="_blank" href="http://www.taopage.org//tao.html"><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman">Tao</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman">, <I>nondoing</I> points to the actionless of Heaven, like in the following abstract from </FONT><I><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman">Tao-te ching</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman"></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman">:
                </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.taopage.org/nondoing.html"><P>
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                            <TABLE width="140" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG width="140" height="173" border="0" alt="aikido and wu-wei" src="http://www.taopage.org//aiki.jpg" id="Picture43" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><I><FONT size="-1" face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman" color="#000000">Aikido is a living illustration of the nondoing concept. The practitioner is moving along with his opponent instead of resisting his attacks. </FONT></I></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman">Linked with the human behavior, <I>nondoing</I> refers to not forcing the things on their way, on the action without effort or going with the grain.</FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E696146E-7DF6-45B1-83A1-ADB0F2FB5088/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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