There is a principle called Woe. Woe means none or not, no negation, way, has a combination of meanings. It can mean action, making, but the best translation I have found for it is forcing. Anso Woe is the principle of not forcing. In anything that you do. Now we know when we watch any performance of an artist be it a dancer, or an actor or a musician. We know immediately when the performance is forced. And we say it doesn't ring true. It's too artificial. It doesn't seem to be natural. Many people to study the Dallas doctrines. Think that way means do nothing. In the sense of laissez faire, be laissez always be passive. It doesn't mean that. There is a time for action when you studied judo. You use muscle only at the right moment. When your opponent has hopelessly overextended and half balance, and you add a little muscle to it and you throw them across the room. But only then, you never use muscle at the wrong moment. For a Shakespeare knew perfectly well, there is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at its flood leads on to fortune. And so Wuhai is based on knowledge of the tide. The drift of things. Get rid. Wu Way is the art of sailing rather than the art of growing. So one of the most famous sayings of in the laozhou. Look. Is superior virtue has no intention to be virtuous. And thus is virtue. Interior virtue cannot let go of virtue as and thus is not good. So one could also say, the real railway is not intentionally railway, and so is railway. But inferior will weigh. So tries to be will weigh. That it isn't. In other words, this is saying, Wu Way is not a matter of cultivated passively. Or even have cultivated spontaneously because there are people who think that they are released. That they have realized that they are the dao as all of us in fact are. Or that you are to put it into Vedanta terms, every one of us is the Brahmin. The eternal self of the universe beyond all description or classification or thought. And say, okay, baby, I'm that. Now I'm gonna have a ball. Well, what kind of a bowl do they have? Well, what they do is they look up the rules. On which society runs and do the opposite. Well, that's still running by the rules of society. When it's the mirror image in reverse, that's not continuity. You have to be able to realize that you don't know what you really want to. Until you are very quiet, and it tells you. See, we are in heaven now because the earth is a spaceship, and heaven is space. But is called in Chinese kung, Japanese ku, the void. That's what is important. Most of us don't know this. Space. It comes down to space always. Space, which nobody can define, nobody can imagine, appears to be nothing as the foundation of the universe. But you have to become again as a child to see that. Are you there? Go back to your child. What were the fascinating things? What's out there? What's beyond the star? How long does it go on? And mama said, it goes on always and always knows. The child wonders. He's excited. But if this is something that never ends, Then the child asked about time. How long ago is long ago? Well, The Bible says that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. But what did God do before he did that? Well, as one person said, he sat up, think hon punishments in hell for people who ask silly questions. But still, that has only a joke and that the the child thinks Oh god. Going back and back and back forever. Never beginning. Tell him the same way you think about death. Go to sleep and never wake up. Never. Why it would be as if you never had existed? Not only you, but everything else. Which is of course the way things were before you were born. You know how about how about waking up after having never gone to sleep? That's quite a thought. There's something fishy about it all. So we get a funny feeling when we think those questions really through. Very funny feeling. And children, you see, love to get into that funny feeling. Children do all kinds of weird things. They like to spin around as fast as possible, so they work for the suddenly of the of the ground because tilting me. You know this thing, the the the the eye. And make faces and test out their bodies and also to funny ways because they know from the beginning that the world is weird. Strange thing because everybody knows what it's all about. Only they won't admit it. Being brought up is being taught not to admit it. As you know very well, what's going on? But in order to find out once more as an adult, you have to be coming in as a child. So what does that involve? Means, ladies and gentlemen, would you please check your ideas and opinions of the door? First of all, all your philosophical and religious views, all your logic Because I say check it at the door, advise the gym because you can pick it up again when you go out if you feel unsafe without I'm not trying to argue you out of your opinions and views. I'm merely suggesting that for the sake of an experiment, we temporarily suspended and view what is, as if you didn't even know how to talk. Red is not red, blue is not blue. Hard is not hard, soft is not soft. Mail is not male, female is not female. There is just this jazz. It will not be possible to compel yourselves into this way of looking at things because what Buddhist's core habit energy is going on on on And as I talk to you, you will find yourselves thinking in a compulsive and habitual way. This is red. This is green. This is something, this is nothing, this is solid, this is space. Alright. But treat those thoughts that are going on in your head. In exactly the same way as if they were the BBB level level or they BBB, BBB, BBB, BBB, BBB. See? That's all that. Like shapes in the spray as the sea breaks on the rocks. Now, please don't get agitated that this is an anti intellectual point of view, that this is undermining the value of logic and reasons on that we we'll bring all that back later when we need it. But just for the time being, let's simplify. Close your eyes. Listen. What do you really and truly? Honest. Here.
