Speaker 1: There's a type of struggle you face every day without
Speaker 1: realizing it. It's not against other people, it's not against
Speaker 1: external circumstances, it's against the very natural movement of life itself.
Speaker 1: A philosophy written over two thousand years ago observed this pattern,
Speaker 1: and it reached a conclusion that contradicts everything we've learned.
Speaker 1: Many assume that living well means controlling everything, that strength
Speaker 1: is synonymous with rigidity, that yielding is the same as failing.
Speaker 1: Most people believe this would be the only way to survive.
Speaker 1: But is that true or are we wasting energy fighting
Speaker 1: battles that don't need to be fought. Lautsu proposed something
Speaker 1: radically different, something that completely changes our relationship with existence.
Speaker 1: Taoism begins with a paradox, that which offers no resistance
Speaker 1: defeats what is hardest. Softness overcomes brute force. This isn't poetry,
Speaker 1: its observation of nature. Think about water. It yields to
Speaker 1: any pre It molds to any shape. You put your
Speaker 1: hand in it and it separates. You push and it
Speaker 1: moves away. It seems weak, and yet with time it
Speaker 1: defeats the stone, not because it attacks, but because it
Speaker 1: persists without resisting while the stone remains rigid trying to
Speaker 1: maintain its form. Water flows around it, fills the empty spaces,
Speaker 1: seeps into the cracks, and one day the stone dissolves.
Speaker 1: Have you ever noticed how many times in your life
Speaker 1: you try to be the stone when you should have
Speaker 1: been the water. Laotsu saw in this dynamic the fundamental
Speaker 1: principle of existence. What is flexible survives, what is rigid breaks.
Speaker 1: And this applies to everything, to the body that needs movement,
Speaker 1: to the mind that needs openness, to relationships that need adaptation.
Speaker 1: But we were taught the opposite from early on. We
Speaker 1: learned that strength is rigidity, that winning is not yielding,
Speaker 1: that flexibility is weakness, and that's when the conflict began.
Speaker 1: You spend your life trying to be strong in the
Speaker 1: wrong way, trying to resist when you should flow, and
Speaker 1: in that resistance you wear yourself out, not against the world,
Speaker 1: against yourself. Loud Su is a figure shrouded in mystery.
Speaker 1: It's not certain whether he actually existed. Some sources say
Speaker 1: he was an archivist of the Chinese Imperial court in
Speaker 1: the sixth century before Christ, a man who took care
Speaker 1: of ancient records, who tired of corruption decided to leave civilization.
Speaker 1: Legend has it that he was leaving China riding a
Speaker 1: water buffalo when a border guard recognized him and asked
Speaker 1: him to leave something written before departing, and there at
Speaker 1: that gate, loud Su would have written the Tao te Qing.
Speaker 1: Other versions say he was just a name used by
Speaker 1: various authors, that the text is a compilation of teachings
Speaker 1: from different saying. What matters isn't historical precision. It's the
Speaker 1: fact that even with all this uncertainty, Lautsu left one
Speaker 1: of humanity's most influential works, The Tao te Ching, a
Speaker 1: short text with just over five thousand characters in the
Speaker 1: original Chinese version, eighty one brief chapters, some with only
Speaker 1: a few lines, and in those pages a complete philosophy
Speaker 1: about how to live. The Tao te Ching isn't a
Speaker 1: self help manual. It has no steps, it has no formulas.
Speaker 1: It doesn't promise success or happiness. It presents principles, profound
Speaker 1: observations about the nature of existence. Live according to the
Speaker 1: Tao and you will find peace. Resist the Tao, and
Speaker 1: you will find suffering. Taoist philosophy wasn't born from abstract speculation.
Speaker 1: It was born from direct observation of life, from how
Speaker 1: things actually work, and that's why it has endured for
Speaker 1: millennia because what lout Siou observed remains true. The Tao
Speaker 1: is the central concept of everything, and it's impossible to define.
Speaker 1: Lautsu himself begins the talte Ching with this warning, The
Speaker 1: Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal tawe.
Speaker 1: The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
Speaker 1: This isn't obscurantism. It's recognition of a real limit. There
Speaker 1: are dimensions of reality that language cannot reach. The word
Speaker 1: is a map. The tao is the territory, and no map,
Speaker 1: no matter how detailed, completely captures the territory. The map
Speaker 1: shows paths, indicates distances, but you cannot walk on the map.
Speaker 1: You cannot feel the wind. Reading about it, you can
Speaker 1: say the tao is the natural way of all things.
Speaker 1: You can say it's the principle that sustains existence. You
Speaker 1: can say it's the invisible flow that moves the universe.
Speaker 1: But all these definitions fall short because the Tao isn't
Speaker 1: a concept, it's an experience. You don't understand the tao
Speaker 1: by thinking about it. You perceive it by living in
Speaker 1: alignment with it, and that alignment doesn't come from the intellect,
Speaker 1: It comes from silent observation. The problem with the rational
Speaker 1: mind is that it wants to fit everything into categories.
Speaker 1: It wants to explain, define, control. But the Tao escapes
Speaker 1: every category. It's beyond the senses and beyond reason. It's
Speaker 1: the foundation upon which everything rests, and foundations cannot be
Speaker 1: explained using what they sustain. That's why Laotsu says, those
Speaker 1: who know do not speak, and those who speak do
Speaker 1: not know, not as arrogance, but as recognition that real
Speaker 1: knowledge of the Tao is experiential. If the Tao cannot
Speaker 1: be understood, what's left to do live in harmony with it.
Speaker 1: That's the central proposal of Taoism. You don't need to
Speaker 1: fully understand the Tao to align your life with its course,
Speaker 1: just as you don't need to understand gravity to walk.
Speaker 1: Gravity operates independently of your knowledge, and you cooperate with
Speaker 1: it naturally. The same goes for the Tao. It's operating
Speaker 1: now in your body that breathes without command, in your
Speaker 1: heart that beats without effort, in the digestion that happens
Speaker 1: on its own. In all of this, the Tao is present,
Speaker 1: and when you live according to this natural movement, life
Speaker 1: becomes lighter, not because it gets easier, but because you
Speaker 1: stop creating unnecessary conflicts. You stop fighting against processes that
Speaker 1: cannot be controlled. Living in harmony with the Tao is
Speaker 1: observing how life works and cooperating with it. It's perceiving
Speaker 1: that there are natural rhythms, moments of expansion and moments
Speaker 1: of contraction, moments of action and moments of rest. The
Speaker 1: goal of Taoism isn't to achieve something you don't have.
Speaker 1: It's to return to what's already happening. It's to return
Speaker 1: to the natural state of flow. Wu Weei is the
Speaker 1: most important concept in Taoism and the most misunderstood. Many
Speaker 1: people translate it as non action and imagine it's about
Speaker 1: being passive about doing nothing. But wu wey doesn't mean inaction.
Speaker 1: It means action without excessive effort. Think about the difference
Speaker 1: between pushing a locked door and waiting for the key.
Speaker 1: Pushing is action. You're doing something, you're spending energy, but
Speaker 1: it's inefficient action. Waiting is also action, but it's a
Speaker 1: different kind of action. It's the action of recognizing that
Speaker 1: force doesn't solve everything, that timing matters, and when you
Speaker 1: have the key, the door opens without effort. But the
Speaker 1: quality of these actions is completely different. One generates where
Speaker 1: the other generates efficiency. Can you identify in your routine
Speaker 1: how many locked doors you're trying to push right now?
Speaker 1: Wu wey is about acting at the right time, in
Speaker 1: the right way, without fighting against reality. It's about perceiving
Speaker 1: when action is necessary and when waiting is one. When
Speaker 1: you're tense, you act hastily, you push because you can't
Speaker 1: stand in action because the ego interprets waiting as weakness.
Speaker 1: But when you're in flow, you act exactly when you
Speaker 1: need to, not before, not after, and that action is precise.
Speaker 1: It leaves no trail of regret. Wuwei is the art
Speaker 1: of not interfering with the natural course of things. It's
Speaker 1: understanding that life already has a direction. The flow state
Speaker 1: is a perfect expression of wowey. When you're in flow,
Speaker 1: action happens naturally. There's no tension, there's no excessive thinking,
Speaker 1: there's no interference from the ego. You're completely absorbed in
Speaker 1: what you're doing, and in that absorption, performance improves, not
Speaker 1: because you're trying harder, but because you stopped trying to control.
Speaker 1: The musician in flow doesn't think about the notes, he
Speaker 1: plays them. The athlete in flow doesn't calculate the movement
Speaker 1: he moves. The writer in flow doesn't search for words,
Speaker 1: they appear. And all of this happens because the ego
Speaker 1: got out of the way, because the mind stopped interfering.
Speaker 1: Flow is the state where you act without internal resistance,
Speaker 1: without fear of making mistakes, without worry about the outcome.
Speaker 1: You're simply present in the action. The ego wants to control,
Speaker 1: It wants to guarantee the outcome, It wants to prove something,
Speaker 1: and all this interference gets in the way. It creates tension,
Speaker 1: it creates rigidity. But when you let go of the ego,
Speaker 1: when you trust the process, you enter flow, and in flow,
Speaker 1: you discover you're capable of much more than you imagined.
Speaker 1: Wu way is living in constant flow. It's transforming your
Speaker 1: entire life into this state of presence and natural action.
Speaker 1: In the flow state, the mind stops anticipating the future.
Speaker 1: Attention becomes completely fixed on the present, and in that fixation,
Speaker 1: clarity emerges. See what's happening now, not what you fear
Speaker 1: will happen, not what you wish had happened. This clarity
Speaker 1: allows precision. You respond to what is not, to what
Speaker 1: you imagine. The mind that anticipates creates scenarios, most of
Speaker 1: them never happen, but the energy spent on these scenarios
Speaker 1: is real. You prepare for imaginary battles, you defend yourself
Speaker 1: against attacks that never come, and in this process you
Speaker 1: lose the ability to deal with what's actually happening, because
Speaker 1: your attention is divided half in the present, half in
Speaker 1: the imaginary future, and divided attention is weakened. Attention total
Speaker 1: presence is the foundation of wu weei. When you're completely here,
Speaker 1: you don't need to think about what to do. You
Speaker 1: simply know, not because you're intelligent, but because you're seeing clearly,
Speaker 1: And seeing clearly is already half the solution. The other
Speaker 1: half is acting without hesitation, without the interference of fear
Speaker 1: of doubt. You act because it's what needs to be done.
Speaker 1: Much of human suffering is born from the belief that
Speaker 1: we can control everything, that if we think enough, plan enough,
Speaker 1: we'll be able to avoid every mistake, that life is
Speaker 1: a problem that can be solved, but this belief is
Speaker 1: an illusion, and a costly illusion, because the attempt to
Speaker 1: control what cannot be controlled generates constant anxiety. You never rest,
Speaker 1: you never feel you've done enough. There's always one more
Speaker 1: variable to consider, one more scenario to prepare for, and
Speaker 1: in this endless cycle, you consume yourself. Taoism reminds us
Speaker 1: that most of life's processes escape our control. You don't
Speaker 1: control the weather. You don't control other people's choices. You
Speaker 1: don't control the economy. You don't control the future. You
Speaker 1: don't control what people think about you, And even within you,
Speaker 1: there are processes that operate on their own. You don't
Speaker 1: control your heart. It beats without your permission. Try to
Speaker 1: stop it, you can't. You don't control your digestion. It
Speaker 1: happens while you sleep without you needing to do anything.
Speaker 1: You don't control your spontaneous thoughts. They arise without you
Speaker 1: calling them. All of this is happening now without your
Speaker 1: conscious command, and it works perfectly better actually, than it
Speaker 1: would if you try to control it. Life knows what
Speaker 1: it's doing, and it works better when you don't interfere.
Speaker 1: The illusion of control doesn't come from honest observation of reality.
Speaker 1: It comes from fear, from the fear that if you're
Speaker 1: not constantly vigilant, everything will collapse. We don't control fundamental
Speaker 1: internal processes. Digestion happens without you thinking about it. The
Speaker 1: healing of a wound doesn't depend on your will. You
Speaker 1: don't decide when you'll get emotional. The emotion arises. You
Speaker 1: don't consciously produce tears, they appear. All of this follows
Speaker 1: the Tao. It follows a natural course that doesn't need
Speaker 1: your intervention. And when you try to interfere with these processes,
Speaker 1: you usually get in the way. You try to force
Speaker 1: sleep and it escapes. You try to control anxiety and
Speaker 1: it increases. You try to stop thinking about something, and
Speaker 1: you can only think about that. Because these processes don't
Speaker 1: respond to direct control, they respond to acceptance. When you
Speaker 1: accept that you're anxious, the anxiety decreases. When you accept
Speaker 1: that you can't sleep. Sleep comes. When you accept the
Speaker 1: intrusive thought, it loses strength. Life happens independently of your
Speaker 1: conscious will. This isn't bad news. It's good news. It
Speaker 1: means you don't need to carry the weight of making
Speaker 1: everything work. It means there's an intelligence operating that's much
Speaker 1: greater than your ego, and that trusting this intelligence isn't naivety,
Speaker 1: it's wisdom. Compare life to a moving river. You have
Speaker 1: three options. You can swim against the current, grab onto
Speaker 1: obstacles trying to stop the movement, or let go and
Speaker 1: follow the flow. Swimming against the current is possible for
Speaker 1: some time. You make progress, you advance a few yards,
Speaker 1: but the energy cost is immense, and eventually you get tired.
Speaker 1: You can't take it anymore, and then the current takes
Speaker 1: you anyway, except now you're exhausted. Grabbing onto obstacles also
Speaker 1: works temporarily. You hold onto a rock, a branch, and
Speaker 1: you stay there watching the river pass, But your arms
Speaker 1: get tired and you're not really stopped. You're just creating
Speaker 1: the illusion of control while spending energy to maintain the position.
Speaker 1: The third option is to let go from the start,
Speaker 1: let the river take you. This doesn't mean you become passive.
Speaker 1: You can still swim, but you swim with the current,
Speaker 1: not against it. You use the natural movement to direct yourself,
Speaker 1: and in this process you save energy. You get farther
Speaker 1: with less effort. Which of these three options are you
Speaker 1: choosing right now in your life? Life has a direction,
Speaker 1: a movement of its own. You can spend your entire
Speaker 1: life trying to control it, or you can learn to navigate.
Speaker 1: The big difference is that navigating doesn't deny the movement.
Speaker 1: Navigating works with the movement. Most mental and emotional exhaustion
Speaker 1: doesn't come from life's events. It comes from constant resistance.
Speaker 1: You resist what's happening, You resist what happened, you resist
Speaker 1: what might happen. And this resistance generates a deep tension,
Speaker 1: a tension that's always present, even when you don't notice it.
Speaker 1: It lives in the jaw that clenches while you work,
Speaker 1: in the shoulder that rises while you drive, in the
Speaker 1: breathing that shortens when you think about the future, in
Speaker 1: the stomach that closes when you remember the past. These
Speaker 1: are physical signs of emotional resistance. The body recording the
Speaker 1: internal war. The mind is waging against reality, and often
Speaker 1: you don't even know what you're resisting. It's just a habit,
Speaker 1: and installed so long ago, it seems like part of
Speaker 1: who you are. Resistance is learned. You weren't born this way.
Speaker 1: As a child. You flowed, you cried when you were sad,
Speaker 1: and stopped when the sadness passed. You laughed when something
Speaker 1: was funny and forgot it the next minute. You didn't
Speaker 1: carry anything. But then you learned you need to fight
Speaker 1: to survive, that relaxing is dangerous, that accepting is surrendering.
Speaker 1: And then you started resisting everything, including things that don't
Speaker 1: need resistance. You resist sadness and it persists. You resist
Speaker 1: fear and it grows. You resist anger and it explodes.
Speaker 1: Because reality doesn't change because of your resistance, It just
Speaker 1: follows its course, and you resisting wear yourself out alone.
Speaker 1: Taoism proposes something radical. Stop resisting, not because everything will
Speaker 1: be fine, not because life will become easy, but because
Speaker 1: resistance isn't helping. It's just adding so to suffering. The
Speaker 1: Towers Path isn't to control the river, it's to learn
Speaker 1: to navigate through it. And navigating requires different skills than controlling.
Speaker 1: Controlling requires strength, navigating requires perception. Controlling requires rigidity, Navigating
Speaker 1: requires flexibility. Controlling requires the world to adjust to you.
Speaker 1: Navigating requires you to adjust to the world, and this
Speaker 1: adjustment isn't defeat its existential intelligence. When you learn to navigate,
Speaker 1: you notice something surprising. The river takes you to places
Speaker 1: you never would have reached alone places you didn't even
Speaker 1: know existed. And often these places are better than those
Speaker 1: you had planned. But you only discover this when you
Speaker 1: let go of control. Accepting the flow isn't weakness, its
Speaker 1: recognition of reality. It's admitting you're not bigger than life,
Speaker 1: that you're part of it, not the center of it,
Speaker 1: and that working with life is more efficient than working
Speaker 1: against it. This doesn't mean you never act. It means
Speaker 1: you act intelligently. You choose your battles, you invest energy
Speaker 1: where it really makes a difference. There's a famous story
Speaker 1: in the Gunxy, a fundamental Taoist text written by the
Speaker 1: philosopher Drung Joe. It's the story of the cook Ting.
Speaker 1: Ting worked for a prince and his job was to
Speaker 1: cut meat to bone animals, work that could be seen
Speaker 1: as simple mechanical. But Ting transformed this work into art,
Speaker 1: into meditation, into an expression of the tao. One day,
Speaker 1: the prince observed him working and was impressed. Ting moved
Speaker 1: the knife with extraordinary grace, as if he were dancing,
Speaker 1: without apparent effort. Each movement flowed into the next, like
Speaker 1: water descending a mountain. There was no waste, there was
Speaker 1: no hesitation, and when the prince asked how he did it,
Speaker 1: Ting stopped and explained. He said that in the beginning,
Speaker 1: when he started working, he only saw the whole animal.
Speaker 1: He saw a solid body and didn't know where to start,
Speaker 1: so he cut with effort, with trial and error. He
Speaker 1: forced the knife where it didn't want to go, and
Speaker 1: the work was hard wearing. But over time something changed.
Speaker 1: He stopped seeing the animal. He started seeing the spaces,
Speaker 1: the natural places where the knife should enter, the joints
Speaker 1: that separated without resistance, the paths that anatomy had already created.
Speaker 1: And then his work changed completely. He no longer needed
Speaker 1: to force. The knife simply followed the spaces that were
Speaker 1: already there. It followed the natural design of the body.
Speaker 1: It glided between the bones without touching them. It separated
Speaker 1: the joints without forcing them, and the work that was
Speaker 1: once arduous became smooth. Natural. Ting acts in perfect harmony
Speaker 1: with the task, not because he's talented, not because he
Speaker 1: has some special gift, but because he stopped fighting, because
Speaker 1: he's stopped imposing his will on reality. He realized that
Speaker 1: nature had already created the paths, and that his job
Speaker 1: isn't to create new paths. It's to follow those that
Speaker 1: already exist. This story is a perfect metaphor for Wouwei.
Speaker 1: Life has natural spaces, places where things flow easily. The
Speaker 1: wise person learns to identify these spaces and acts through them.
Speaker 1: Over time, King stops acting with his eyes, he stops
Speaker 1: depending on physical vision and begins to act with spirit,
Speaker 1: with a deeper perception. This isn't mysticism, it's what happens
Speaker 1: when you master any skill. In the beginning, you need
Speaker 1: to think about each step, you need to look, calculate, plan,
Speaker 1: But with practice, the movement becomes automatic. You no longer think,
Speaker 1: you simply act. And this automatic action is much more
Speaker 1: precise than conscious action. Because consciousness is slow, it needs
Speaker 1: to process information, it needs to decide, and in this
Speaker 1: recess it introduces hesitation. But unconscious action is immediate. It
Speaker 1: responds to what's happening without the mediation of thought, and
Speaker 1: that's why it's faster, more precise. Effort disappears because there's
Speaker 1: no longer internal conflict. There's no longer the mind saying
Speaker 1: one thing and the body doing another. There's only action,
Speaker 1: pure and direct. Ting reached this state through practice, through
Speaker 1: conscious repetition that eventually became unconscious, and this is the
Speaker 1: path of wu wei. You don't wake up one day
Speaker 1: acting without effort. You practice, you observe, you adjust, and
Speaker 1: one day you realize you're no longer trying, You're just doing.
Speaker 1: While other cooks wear out their knives quickly. Ting uses
Speaker 1: the same knife for nineteen years and it's still as
Speaker 1: sharp as on the first day. Why because he doesn't force,
Speaker 1: He doesn't cut where there's resistance. He waits for the
Speaker 1: right space, and when he acts, he acts without waste.
Speaker 1: This symbolizes something profound about woweh. Acting in flow preserves energy,
Speaker 1: avoids damage both internal and external. When you force, you
Speaker 1: wear yourself out. When you fight against reality, you hurt yourself.
Speaker 1: But when you act in alignment with the natural course,
Speaker 1: you can sustain action indefinitely, without exhaustion, without collapse. Real
Speaker 1: efficiency isn't about doing more, it's about doing better, and
Speaker 1: doing better means doing with less waste, less unnecessary effort,
Speaker 1: less internal resistance. Ting's knife lasts because he uses it correctly.
Speaker 1: He doesn't force it where it shouldn't go, and that's
Speaker 1: why it's preserved. The same goes for you when you
Speaker 1: live in alignment with the tao You preserve yourself not
Speaker 1: because you're avoiding challenges, but because you're facing challenges the
Speaker 1: right way. Taoism teaches that softness is more powerful than rigidity,
Speaker 1: and this isn't belief, its observation. In nature, what is
Speaker 1: flexible adapts, what is rigid breaks. Think about bamboo. Its
Speaker 1: hollow and flexible. It withstands winds that would topple solid trees.
Speaker 1: Why because it bends, it doesn't resist, and when the
Speaker 1: wind passes, it returns to its original position unharmed. The
Speaker 1: rigid tree tries to remain still and ends up breaking.
Speaker 1: Also compare the green branch and the dry branch. The
Speaker 1: green one bends, the dry one breaks at the slightest touch.
Speaker 1: Life is in movement, in the ability to adapt. What
Speaker 1: is flexible lasts longer because it doesn't fight against changes.
Speaker 1: It doesn't try to maintain a fixed form in a
Speaker 1: world that's always changing. And this flexibility isn't weakness, its wisdom.
Speaker 1: It's recognizing that life isn't static, that everything is in motion,
Speaker 1: and that trying to stop this movement is an illusion.
Speaker 1: You can be rigid, you can try to keep everything
Speaker 1: the way it is, but life will change anyway, and
Speaker 1: if you don't change with it, you break. Softness allows
Speaker 1: you to change without losing yourself. It allows you to
Speaker 1: adapt without betraying your essence, because essence isn't in form,
Speaker 1: it's in movement. Now think about desert sand. The wind blows,
Speaker 1: and the sand simply moves. It doesn't resist, It reorganizes,
Speaker 1: and that's why it remains. The rock exposed to the
Speaker 1: same wind gets worn down, cracking, fragmenting until it turns
Speaker 1: to dust. The sand already is what the rock will become,
Speaker 1: but without the suffering of resistance. L'autsu saw in these
Speaker 1: examples from nature a fundamental truth. Softness allows you to
Speaker 1: change without losing yourself. It allows you to adapt without
Speaker 1: betraying your essence. There's another profound aspect to Lautsu's teaching. Simplicity.
Speaker 1: Towers doesn't advocate accumulation. It advocates reduction. The more you accumulate,
Speaker 1: the more you carry, and this weight distances you from flow.
Speaker 1: Simple life is lighter, not because it has less value,
Speaker 1: but because it has less resistance. When you simplify, you
Speaker 1: create space, and in that space the taw can operate.
Speaker 1: But when your life is too full, there's no space
Speaker 1: for anything new. You get stuck. Taoist simplicity isn't poverty,
Speaker 1: it's freedom. Accepting reality doesn't mean agreeing with it. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean approving injustices. It doesn't mean resigning yourself. It
Speaker 1: means seeing clearly what is, without emotional distortion, without denial.
Speaker 1: Only from this clarity is it possible to act with wisdom.
Speaker 1: Because when you emotionally resist reality, you lose the ability
Speaker 1: to respond well. You act reactively, impulsively, confusedly. But when
Speaker 1: you accept, you see things as they are, and from
Speaker 1: this clear vision you can choose the best possible action.
Speaker 1: Laotsu isn't asking for resignation. He's asking for lucidity. He's
Speaker 1: saying you don't change what you don't accept, you only
Speaker 1: fight against it. And fighting is different from changing. Fighting
Speaker 1: is chaotic, emotional wearing. Change is strategic conscious. Efficient fighting
Speaker 1: comes from the ego. Change comes from the tao. Entering
Speaker 1: flow requires letting go of control, It requires letting go
Speaker 1: of expectations. It requires letting go of obsession with results.
Speaker 1: And this letting go is difficult because you were trained
Speaker 1: to believe that control is security, that expectations are planning
Speaker 1: that obsession with results is ambition, but it's not. Control
Speaker 1: is tension, Expectations are prisons. Obsession with results is anxiety,
Speaker 1: and all of this distances you can from flow because
Speaker 1: flow only happens when you're present, and you can't be
Speaker 1: present if you're obsessed with the future. You can't be
Speaker 1: present if you're trying to control every variable. When resistance falls,
Speaker 1: life begins to flow naturally. Not because it gets easier,
Speaker 1: but because you stop adding difficulty. You stop creating internal obstacles,
Speaker 1: You stop fighting with yourself while dealing with external challenges,
Speaker 1: and in this stopping you discover something surprising. You're capable
Speaker 1: of much more than you imagined. Not because you got stronger,
Speaker 1: but because you stopped wasting energy. You stopped spending half
Speaker 1: your strength fighting against yourself. Laudsu's teaching isn't about achieving
Speaker 1: something new. It's not about becoming someone different. It's not
Speaker 1: about accumulating knowledge or developing special skills. It's about returning
Speaker 1: to what's already natural. You already know how to flow.
Speaker 1: You did it as a child, before learning you needed
Speaker 1: to control everything, before believing life is a constant threat,
Speaker 1: before internalizing that you need to fight to survive. There
Speaker 1: was a time when you simply existed without all this weight,
Speaker 1: without all this resistance, without this constant internal war, And
Speaker 1: Taoism is an invitation to return to that, not with naivety,
Speaker 1: not ignoring real challenges, but with the wisdom to distinguish
Speaker 1: between real challenges and challenges you create, with the ability
Speaker 1: to recognize what can be changed and what needs to
Speaker 1: be accepted, with the intelligence to invest energy only where
Speaker 1: it really makes a difference. Life is already complex enough.
Speaker 1: You don't need to add layers of unnecessary suffering. You
Speaker 1: don't need to turn every situation into a war. You
Speaker 1: don't need to prove anything. You don't need to control everything.
Speaker 1: You don't need to always be right. You can simply
Speaker 1: be here, present, responding to what arises, without internal resistance,
Speaker 1: without unknows, necessary tension, And in this simplicity you discover
Speaker 1: that life works, that it always worked, That the problem
Speaker 1: was never life, It was your relationship with it. It
Speaker 1: was the belief that you needed to force, You needed
Speaker 1: to resist, you needed to control, But you don't need to,
Speaker 1: You never needed to. You just need to let go
Speaker 1: and let the flow take you, not to anywhere, but
Speaker 1: to where you need to be. Maybe it's worth pausing
Speaker 1: here and asking yourself, where in your life are you
Speaker 1: being the stone and where could you be the water?
Speaker 1: Where are you trying to control? And where could you trust.
Speaker 1: It's not an easy answer, but it's a question worth
Speaker 1: asking