no-action

The Tao is transcendental - it is the absolute value fundamental to relative existence (to the ten thousand things). It is unchanging, permanent, featureless, unbounded, unmanifest. At the same time, it is the basis of change, impermanence, attributes, and manifest existence. It's like a still ocean from
which all the activity of the waves arise and return.

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If you throw a baseball, there is a certain extent to which you have to stop trying to throw it and just let it happen. Your mind decides on a target, and then your body takes over and manages the complicated process of moving all your muscles so that the ball flies off in the correct direction. If your mind tries to think about and control what your body is doing during the throw, it will simply get in the way and mess things up. You have to do it without 'doing' it in the mental sense of acting.

This is true of most things in the world. If you want to ask someone out on a date, you'll do better if you just set the intention and let it happen than if you try to plan out and control the discussion; the first feels warm and natural, the second stilted and odd. If you want to get elected mayor you'll do better to set the intention and allow the wave of public action carry you where it will than if you try to control the way people think. If you want to solve a problem, it is often best to stop thinking about it; let the problem percolate in your brain without conscious thought, and sooner or later you'll get an intuition or inspiration that will set you in the right direction.

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Non-action is turning thoughts into things. It is the process of creation that transforms thought energy into physical reality. This takes active thinking, intelligence, envisioning and feeling of joy, abundance, and purpose.

Laziness is on the other end of the energy spectrum. It is a state of apathy and purposeless. Lifeforce ceases to flow. It is a living-dead feeling.

People in the non-action mode appears peaceful, joyful and wise. They only take inspired-action when the time is right. Things may appear magically or effortlessly working for them all the time.

People in the laziness mode appears lack of energy and unhappy. They have no motivation to do anything. They might be forced to do something merely to survive, which will be a painful and hard-working experience.

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