The secrets of spontaneity captivated ancient China, their greatest philosophers, Confucius,
Lao Tze, Zhuangzi, Mencius were all said to radiate effortless charisma, in a state of
being known as Wu-Wei.
Imagine what life would be like, Wouldn't it be awesome to glow like them?
but given you and I are mere mortals, not great philosophers, can we Wu-Wei too?
Well let's take a trip back to 4th century BC China to understand what Wu-Wei is really
about… crowd, chicken noises, sound scape
A crowd fills a public square.
A ceremony is taking place.
Centre stage is Butcher Ding.
He is set with the arduous task of dismembering a half tone ox - a procedure that demands
precise timing and perfectly smooth execution.
This, however, is no problem for Ding, "At every touch of his hand, every bending of
his shoulder, every step of his feet, every thrust of his knee—swish! swoosh!
He guides his blade along with absolute precision".
Just like that, the giant creature falls apart.
The Lord overseeing the ceremony is amazed!
"Ah!
How wonderful!
Can skill really reach such heights?"
Butcher Ding bows to the lord and replies: "What I, your humble servant, care about
is the Way [Dao, ], which goes beyond mere skill."
"When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself.
But now—now I meet it with my spirit and don't look with my eyes.
My conscious awareness shuts down and my spirit takes me away.
And the job is done".
Butcher Ding continues, holding up his cleaver: "An ordinary butcher has to change his cleaver
once a month, because he hacks.
As for me, I have been using this particular cleaver for nineteen years now.
Between the joints of the ox there is space, and the edge of the blade has no thickness;
if you use that which has no thickness to pass through gaps where there is space, there's
no resistance.
That's why, after nineteen years, the edge of my blade is as sharp as ever."
"Fascinating!" the Lord exclaims.
"From the words of Butcher Ding I've learned how to live my life!"
Please excuse the bad acting, at least on my part.
But that story is from Zhuangzi, the second most famous Taoist after Lao Tze.
The story is not meant to be taken as a literally guide for how to be a good butcher.
Instead the last line suggests it should be taken as a metaphor.
We take it for granted that the blade should touch the tendon, the muscle, whatever.
But actually, Butcher Ding he finds his way his blade simply goes through the space.
the substance like the tendons and the bones are like the obstacles and difficulties in
our lives.
just like butcher ding who can avoid ligaments, bones and joints.
a wu-wei person can avoid the difficulties in life.
In Chinese Wu-Wei literally means non-action but we can see from Butcher Ding's story
that a better definition is spontaneous or effortless action.
In Wu-Wei you know the principles of human and natural affairs so well that you can just
chill out and let your subconscious, what Butcher Ding calls his spirit, effortlessly
sort things out.
Ok now we have an idea of what the Ancient sages were talking about, the question still
remains, can you or I become spontaneous masters?
Wu-Wei, in fact, is not just wishful thinking.
Our sages understood something intuitively that neuroscience has only recently been able
to explain: human intelligence is far more than just rational thought.
Neuroscientists have found we have two systems of thinking or cognition: hot and cold.
Hot cognition is fast, automatic, effortless and unconscious corresponding roughly to what
we think of as "the body".
Cold cognition, in contrast, is slow, deliberate, effortful, and conscious, the little voices
in our heads.
You already know how powerful hot cognition is.
Wu-Wei can reflect like riding a bicycle. at the very beginning you feel very tense,
you are afraid the bicycle might fall down.
but when you achieve the ability of riding the bicycle without thinking how to control
the bicycle goes very well.
This intelligence isn't only restricted to physical skills.
Take the case of Albert Einstein.
After ten long years of incessant thinking on the problem of general relativity, he decided
one evening to simply give up.
He had had enough.
It was beyond him.
He went to bed early, depressed.
Yet when he awoke the solution, that changed how we conceptualise the whole universe, suddenly
came to him.
Only by giving up, relaxing the tight grip of cold rationality, could his hot subconscious
cognition make the unconventional connections necessary for his insight.
What's more, too much cold cognition, e.g. over thinking, can be counterproductive.
actually there are many things many phenomena you should do in a natural way. for example
a plant.
you think, oh I"m not satisfied with the speed.
so you take too much action, you pull it up.
too much action it will die.
so leave it alone to grow in its own natural pace.
we actually have a natural beauty, this natural being is more intelligent than your personal
human thought.
so listen to that being.
Thus, the ancient masters were right and we've said it many times on this channel now.
we are so much greater than what the voice in our heads tells us.
we have this whole powerful, amazing subconscious intelligence that can, without supervision,
be highly effective.
and yet our society and philosophy is telling us that rationality rules and that we must
subdue the body.
we've seen from this video that we need at least the body and the mind.
So, we've already taken our first steps on our wu-wei journey.
From neuroscience we've learnt why wu-wei is possible, from Butcher Ding we've learnt
to seek the spaces in life and from Einstein we've learnt just to let go sometimes.
Now we just need to integrate how the world works into our nervous system and let go of
conscious control and we'll become fully wu-wei!… hmm but how do we do that?
And how on earth is using our consciousness to try to stop using our consciousness, going
to work?
You'll have to wait wait until next week to find out...
Thanks for watching
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