{"id":42964,"date":"2015-05-07T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lemasney.com\/projects\/illustratedquotes\/?p=91"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:35:39","slug":"act-without-doing-work-without-effort-tao-te-ching-cc-by-lemasney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2015\/05\/07\/act-without-doing-work-without-effort-tao-te-ching-cc-by-lemasney\/","title":{"rendered":"Act without doing work without effort – Tao Te Ching cc-by lemasney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Act without doing work without effort – Tao Te Ching cc-by lemasney<\/p><\/div>\n

“When people see things as beautiful, \u00a0ugliness is created. \u00a0When people see things as good, \u00a0evil is created. \u00a0 Being and non-being produce each other. \u00a0Difficult and easy complement each other. \u00a0Long and short define each other. \u00a0High and low oppose each other. \u00a0Fore and aft follow each other. \u00a0 Therefore the Master \u00a0can act without doing anything \u00a0and teach without saying a word. \u00a0Things come her way and she does not stop them; \u00a0things leave and she lets them go. \u00a0She has without possessing, \u00a0and acts without any expectations. \u00a0When her work is done, she take no credit. \u00a0That is why it will last forever.” – Tao Te Ching – http:\/\/goo.gl\/k12Rj8<\/a><\/p>\n

“Wu wei (Chinese: \u7121\u7232; a variant and derivatives: traditional Chinese and Japanese: \u7121\u70ba; simplified Chinese: \u65e0\u4e3a; pinyin: w\u00fa w\u00e9i; Korean: \u7121\u7232(\ubb34\uc704); Vietnamese: V\u00f4 vi; English, lit. non-doing) is an important concept in Taoism that literally means non-action or non-doing. In the Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu explains that beings (or phenomena) that are wholly in harmony with the Tao behave in a completely natural, uncontrived way. The goal of spiritual practice for the human being is, according to Lao Tzu, the attainment of this purely natural way of behaving, as when the planets revolve around the sun. The planets effortlessly do this revolving without any sort of control, force, or attempt to revolve themselves, instead engaging in effortless and spontaneous movement.” – Wu wei – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – http:\/\/goo.gl\/tdn7F0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When people see things as beautiful, \u00a0ugliness is created. \u00a0When people see things as good, \u00a0evil is created. \u00a0 Being and non-being produce each other. \u00a0Difficult and easy complement each other. \u00a0Long and short define each other. \u00a0High and low oppose each other. \u00a0Fore and aft follow each other. \u00a0 Therefore the Master \u00a0can act […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1128,4110],"tags":[4119,411,599],"class_list":{"0":"post-42964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-illustration","8":"category-inkscape-portfolio","9":"tag-digital-illustration","10":"tag-inkscape","11":"tag-open-source","12":"post_format-post-format-image","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/45-of-365-minimalism-design-principle-by-John-LeMasney-via-lemasney.com_.png?fit=1000%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-baY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":420,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/03\/29\/98-of-365-is-a-squid-with-a-hundred-eyes-in-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":42964,"position":0},"title":"A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-03-29","format":false,"excerpt":"So today's sketch is of a squid, which, not being a marine biologist, I think of as simply a sea cre\u00e4ture with 8 tentacles. 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