The Master leads by emptying people's minds
and filling their cores.
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything
they know, everything they desire.
and creates confusion
in those who think that they know. - Lao Tzu
Lau Tzu's
Tao Te Ching or Book of the Way is a guide to the art of living. Wisdom requires working for the good with effortless skill that comes from flowing in the moment and in accord with the Universe.
Tao focuses on wei wu wei - doing not doing. It is not passivity. A trained athlete enters a state of body-awareness. The conscious will does not intrude and the body moves by itself. The highest form of action occurs where the poem writes the poem, the game plays the game, and the dancer is the dance.
The doer has vanished into the deed. The fuel completely transformed into flame.
Today, take advantage of Lao Tzu's philosophy in writing: Empty your mind of concepts, judgments and rigidity. As you begin your freewrite, feel supple, adaptable, and push the pen with endurance in mind.
Lose everything you know and just write. Once in the stream of words, you will feel the power of relenting to process. Notice a feeling of harmony by the way ideas fall from the pen. The more you let go, the more your clear insights follow.
