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It\u2019s helpful to have a direction.\u00a0 Essential perhaps.\u00a0 A clear direction guides our each & every step.\u00a0 It\u2019s wonderful to know just want we\u2019re supposed to do in each & every aspect of our life.<\/p>\n
One Chinese character for direction, w\u01ceng (\u5f80), suggests mastering our stepping \u2013 mastering our conduct.\u00a0 Ensuring that each & every gesture is moving us toward where we want to be.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m afraid wuweidao doesn\u2019t give us some specified direction.\u00a0 Some special state to attain or goal to work toward.\u00a0 It does reveal a kind of qi-quality, but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n
Indeed, we can generate some concept that we\u2019ve \u201clost it\u201d and need to \u201creturn\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s a direction.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not really wuweidao \u2013 that\u2019s only relevant if we\u2019re not really in the practice.<\/p>\n
Our tradition takes a different tack.\u00a0 It\u2019s not geared toward people not in the practice.\u00a0 It\u2019s not \u201cgeared\u201d toward anything actually.\u00a0 This non-gearedness is the great treasure of this path.<\/p>\n
So in this spirit, we sit for a while every day without any direction whatsoever, beyond the basics of natural posture.\u00a0 Sticking with this practice regularly over a period of time, something arises that Laozi observes is inaccessible from any direction-based action or method.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not the case that wuwei practitioners have no direction.\u00a0 Anything but.\u00a0 When hungry, our direction is to eat, if someone is thirsty, our direction is to bring them something to drink.\u00a0 Correct direction is self-revealing \u2013 it doesn\u2019t come from philosophy or religion or doctrine or faith or effort or method or this or that.\u00a0 Nature brings it forth moment-to-moment.<\/p>\n
This is the direction of wuweidao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s helpful to have a direction.\u00a0 Essential perhaps.\u00a0 A clear direction guides our each & every step.\u00a0 It\u2019s wonderful to know just want we\u2019re supposed to do in each & every aspect of our life. One Chinese character for direction, w\u01ceng (\u5f80), suggests mastering our stepping \u2013 mastering our conduct.\u00a0 Ensuring that each & every … Continue reading “On Having Direction (\u5f80)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}