Wu Wei — The Art of Effortless Action

Here’s how you can try less and achieve more

Jake Mura
Irrelevant Matters
Published in
6 min readFeb 11

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Photo by Asya Cusima

When I first encountered the cultures of the Orient, I found them interesting but useless in our capitalistic world. And I’m not alone in such opinions, e.g., one of the greatest popularizers of these cultures, Alan Watts, once called their main tool — meditation “the perfect waste of time.”

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Jake Mura
Irrelevant Matters

Essays on ideas, spirituality, philosophy, culture and society. Founder of Irrelevant Matters. https://linktr.ee/jakemura