Understanding Effortless Action

| Knowing when and how effortless action takes place is both a skill and an art: It can be learned and practiced, and there is significance and meaning in the execution itself.\r
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Effortless action is known in Taoism as wu-wei, but it is a human discipline that spans various cultures around the world. The round peg and square hole example that I give here is adapted from a great little book called The Tao of Pooh:\r
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When you work with Wu Wei, you put the round peg in the round hole and the square peg in the square hole. No stress, no struggle. Egotistical Desire tries to force the round peg into the square hole and the square peg into the round hole. Cleverness tries to devise craftier ways of making pegs fit where they dont belong. Knowledge tries to figure out why round pegs fit into round holes, but not square holes. Wu Wei doesnt try. It doesnt think about it. It just does it. And when it does, it doesnt appear to do much of anything. But Things Get Done.\r
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From The Tao of Pooh (more recommended reading at: \r
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