Crisis ten years of hell? Pt.4

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Notes on Wu Wei

The Chinese expression Wu Wei means to do nothing. It is one of the key ideas in taoism.

An Awakened Approach to the Auto Bail Out Question

Ahead

Crisis will always present us with new opportunities. When we encounter a crisis we are, in effect, coming upon a fork in the road. The path more worn is that which points us back to where we have been. But the second path invites us to discover something new. This is the path of real opportunity, because when we are in crisis, life informs us that the path we have been on no longer works. It is obsolete.
The teetering of late post-industrial capitalism tells us that a world based on the success of the few and impoverishment of the many does not work. We are now paying for our greed and our desire to profit by continuing to rape the planet and subscribe to a belief that growth, for its own self, is a virtue. In fact, it is a lethal vice.
If we are dedicated to going back to this world, then we only continue on the path that continues to erode the vitality of the planet, sustain the desperation of the many for the benefit of the few, and sustain a belief that we can never have enough.
Most will wish to go back, because this is the only world they know. Whether they know it conscious or not, they and their peers are identified with lack and insufficiency, so they will subscribe to growth scenarios.

What is the purpose of living

Is this a question we need to ask ourselves.

Love and enlightenment

Awakening is just that awakening. It doesn't mean that the awakened person is just like every other awakened being.
Each of us is unique. Awakening is coming in harmony with our intrinsic selves in each unfolding moment. It is a cliche that all awakened beings are those that radiate only love and acceptance. There are lovers in this world and there are fighters and there is every hue in between. Also, none of us are just "one" thing. How the universal energy stimulates us to be ourselves is part of the great intelligence that guides all things. This energy is never completely still.
Find your passion in each moment - not as a concept made up a collection of "shoulds" and "should nots" - but as you are truly guided in the moment. It is this universe of super-egoic shoulds and should nots that cuts us off from our souls and disempowers out being.
Observe the universe - it contains everything. Everything comes together in harmony and everything comes apart in death. There is peace and there is war - there is a time for both. Perhaps war is merely an intense gathering of the various energies that are more diffuse in peace. That could be. But beware of peace for the sake of peace. We can go to war for a greater good. In the 1940s that meant challenging the violence and hate that was Germany and Japan. Today, it could be the violence wrought against the planet by the excesses fed by greed, over-population, and unnecessary consumption.
To see the violence inside of us and how it effects the planet is love and it is wisdom. This is awakening in the moment.
When we fully resonate with this love and wisdom, we are then awake.