道，or Dao, means "the Way". To elaborate more is impossible, for 道 is simple, yet complex. A comprehensible perplex.
無爲. The Pooh Way. "While Eeyore frets... and Piglet hesitates... and Rabbit calculates... and Owl pontificates... Pooh just is." The greatest action is through inaction. The more we try or think, the more we sigh. Or sink. Paralysis by analysis.
"The 無爲 principle can be understood by striking at a piece of cork floating in water. The harder you hit it, the more it yields; the more it yields, the harder it bounces back. Without expending energy, the cork can easily wear you out. So, 無爲 overcomes force by neutralizing its power, rather than by adding to the conflict. With other approaches, you may fight fire with fire, but with 無爲 , you fight fire with water."
Bisy Backson. "BUSY. BACK SOON." Always in a hurry, mind in a flurry. "If timesaving devices really saved time, there would be more time available to us now than ever before in history. But, strangely enough, we seem to have less time than even a few years ago. It's really great fun to go someplace where there are no timesaving devices because, when you do, you find that you have lots of time." Take your time. Don't live too fast. Troubles will come. And they will pass.
"If you're in tune with The Way Things Work, then they work the way they need to, no matter what you may think about it at the time. Later on, you can look back and say, 'Oh, now I understand. That had to happen so that those could happen, and those had to happen in order for this to happen...'"
"One of the most convenient things about this Sensitivity to Circumstances is that you don't have to make so many difficult decisions. Instead, you can let them make themselves."
We are all Stonecutters. Believe the Way is right, and do not fight.
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