Wu Wei — Doing Nothing 無爲

Azra Betul Erdogdu
4 min readMar 1, 2021

Wu Wei 無爲 .

Combined two words.

Yet we should understand what they mean separately.

Wu 無

Wu is interpreted as “nothing”, which is actually not the case. Wu is like a verb or a pattern of action. When things are Wu’d, then another happening can begin again. Why is that so?

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