in Taoism it's called Wu Wei, or the principle of effortless action and it equates to living with the Tao, trusting in the wisdom of life to see us our daily affairs. Deepak Chopra in his book: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success calls it the Law of Least Effort, a Vedic concept of allowing nature to run our affairs while offering as little resistance as possible. It's not really a practice, more of wisdom to remember as we seek to involve ourselves in every detail possible, believing that only we know best in how our lives should unfold.
except we often make a mess of it.
what we believe is that our own intelligence is greater than nature's, that if we push hard against life's current we will turn its course to suit out way. We fight the river, going upstream continuously. And of course we exhaust ourselves. Least effort is about surrender, not to anything outside ourselves, but simply placing our faith in life itself, trusting that our own involvement is part of its natural rhythm and that our actions will arrive in spontaneous fashion, easily, never having to fight the river.
it's about trust.
perhaps the best way to see it is in saying that nature doesn't struggle against itself, not that there aren't opposing forces often at play, but that it's all nature, every bit of it, and not separate interest insisting upon their individual way. Nature always unfold perfectly within itself. The principle of least effort places us right in the thick of life, a current amidst currents, and we're ask to simply trust the same wisdom the brought us here to begin with, the forces that expanded the universe through its self creation of space/time, guided us from primordial oceans to first breath as we stepped on land.
it's all still present, at hand, available through each moment.
and so our only true option is to surrender to this process...
knowing that we belong full to life's currents.
~
Peace, Eric
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