Action through non-action can be a way of characterizing the concept of WU WEI. It is a Chinese Taoist term which is often misunderstood in English translation since, at first, it may appear to be an oxymoron...a misleading contradiction. But what does it really mean?
Offering my thoughts from life experience, from my 'most human' moments it means the following...being. actively creative with very little and at best with no involvement of my narrow petty personal self. My Higher Self, a divinely given principle...or the 'I AM principle' which should and will grow to become ever more consciously active in earthly life, flows into earthly creative activity as into water...love for the action or into my spoken words are 'born' into fluid harmony with the existing factors of space and time...transforming space and time..a living alchemy..
In this most ideal state of activity, WU WEI means consciously and willingly surrendering from out of inner necessity. This is a complete love for the action. One is acting from the 'over-personal', or from what I experience as my essential self. One's essential Inner-Tao-Self flows into the essential TAO of nature and cosmos.
Clearly this implies that one's heart-mind is fully engaged .....expressive to the full. No brain-bound intellectuality is at the helm. Here, a heart-intelligence only steers as a 'captain' this 'non-active yet active ship' upon the waters of life.. Through this heart intelligence we become truly human. And this heart-activity can deepen to encompassing community...the great Art of Life.
the following quote is from Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 1821-1881 of Russia
"The destiny of art in our time is to transmit from the realm of reason [here he means brain-bound intellect] to the realm of feeling [meaning heart-mind] the truth that the well-being of humanity consists in their being united together, and to set up, in place of the existing reign of force [by false leaders and 'experts' in every domain of modern life] that kingdom of God--that is, of Understanding Love--which we can all [can] recognize to be the highest aim of human life." [and of the Mother Earth] ....brackets added by editor
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