Edward Slingerland, "Effortless Action"
O..rd U,…ty P–-s | ISBN: 0195138996 | 2003 | PDF | 365 pages | 7,29 mb
This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei–literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"–in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness.