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  • From: ChildrensPeaceGuild <childrenspeaceguild@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Wu Wei, Taoism
  • Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 04:09:01 +0000 (UTC)

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.



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F. London, Jr.
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