Full Description
Details the mindfulness method of non-doing to cultivate intelligent spontaneity and effortless action.
Merging Taoist philosophy, Hindu principles, and Confucianism along with scientific findings, Jason Gregory outlines the practice of wu-wei as a vehicle to realize our innate freedom, revealing that when we release our ego and allow life to unfold as it will, we align ourselves more closely with our goals and cultivate skill and mastery along the way. Equating "being in the zone" with a stillness of the mind, Gregory shares meditation practices coupled with yoga exercises from Patanjali that allow you to approach life with a mastery of acceptance, releasing deluded beliefs of how to achieve success that make your mind "sticky" and poised for conflict. The author shows how practicing wu-wei paradoxically empowers you to accomplish all that you desire by having no intention to do so, as well as allowing you to become receptive to nature's blueprint for expressing beauty.
Revealing wisdom utilized by renowned sages, artists, and athletes who have adapted "being in the zone" as a way of life, the author shows that wu-wei can yield a renewed sense of trust in many aspects of your daily life, making each day more effortless. As an avid wu-wei practitioner, he provides keen insight on how you, too, can experience the beauty of achieving an enlightened, effortless mind while reveling in the process of life's unfolding.
Contents
Foreword
Shedding Skin to Liberate the Mind
by Damo Mitchell
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Effortless Mind
PART 1
The Origin of the Effortless Mind in the East
1 The Way of Nature Is No Ideology or Theology
2 The Way of Nature Is No Religion or Dogma
3 The Way of the Tao Is Harmony
PART 2
The Science and Practice of an Effortless Mind
4 The Virtue of the Nonvirtuous
5 Parasitic Patterns of the Unnatural World
6 Natural Government Born of Tao
7 Trust Is Unity
8 The Practice of Yin Cultivation and the Art of the Skillful Craftsman
PART 3
The Art of Effortless Living
9 Synchronicity Is the Language of the Effortless Mind
10 Nothing Is More Useless than Wu-Wei
11 Living Wu-Wei in the Tao of a New World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
