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Not sure if this is part of a larger thread I missed but, at any rate, I find 
it fascinating.
Certainly can be related to permaculture. After all, Masanobu Fukuoka was 
fond of Wu Wei concepts and (in)actions and drew from it's source.





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On Sun, 4/2/17, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [permaculture] Wu Wei, Taoism
 To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
 Date: Sunday, April 2, 2017, 9:09 PM
 
 On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at
 2:24 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 
 > Wu
 wei (無爲) is a concept in Taoism sometimes translated as
 non-action or
 > non-doing. It means
 aligning with the wisdom of Nature, not taking action
 > based on self-centric thinking. Some
 problems are best solved simply by
 >
 staying calm and allowing life to take its natural
 course.
 
 
 http://www.iep.utm.edu/mozi/
 Mozi (Mo-tzu, c. 400s—300s B.C.E.)
 
 moziMo Di (Mo Ti), better
 known as Mozi (Mo-tzu) or "Master Mo," was a
 Chinese thinker active from the late 5th to the
 early 4th centuries B.C.E.
 He is best
 remembered for being the first major intellectual rival
 to
 Confucius and his followers. Mozi's
 teaching is summed up in ten theses
 extensively argued for in the text that bears
 his name, although he himself
 is unlikely to
 have been its author. The most famous of these theses is
 the
 injunction that one ought to be
 concerned for the welfare of people in a
 spirit of "impartial concern"
 (jian'ai) that does not make distinctions
 between self and other, associates and
 strangers, a doctrine often
 described more
 simplistically as "universal love." Mozi founded
 a
 quasi-religious and paramilitary community
 that, apart from propagating the
 ten theses,
 lent aid to small states under threat from military
 aggressors
 with their expertise in
 counter-siege technology. Along with the
 Confucians, the Mohists were one of the two
 most prominent schools of
 thought during the
 Warring States period (403-221 B.C.E.), although
 contemporary sources such as the Hanfeizi and
 the Zhuangzi indicate that
 the Mohists had
 divided into rival sects by this time. While Mohist
 communities probably did not survive into the
 Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.E.),
 Mohist ideas
 exerted a decisive influence upon the thinkers of early
 China.
 Between the late 4th and late 3rd
 centuries B.C.E., later Mohists wrote the
 earliest extant Chinese treatise on logic, as
 well as works on geometry,
 optics and
 mechanics. Mohist logic appears to have influenced the
 argumentative techniques of early Chinese
 thinkers, while Mohist visions of
 meritocracy and the public good helped to shape
 the political philosophies
 and policy
 decisions of both the Qin and Han (202 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
 imperial
 regimes. In these ways, Mohist
 ideas survived well into the early imperial
 era, albeit by being absorbed into other
 Chinese philosophical traditions.
 
 
 
 -- 
 Lawrence
 F. London, Jr.
 lfljvenaura@gmail.com
 https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared
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