“”To return to the root is repose.” These are the principles which underlie the wisdom of the East, which the West has to discover and the East to recover if the world is to find its balance…
There is an activity of the mind which is grasping, achieving, dominating, but there is also an activity which is receptive, attentive, open to others. This is what we have to learn. The classical expression of this intuitive wisdom is to be found in the Tao Te Ching, which speaks of the Spirit of the Valley and the Mystic Female…
Intuition cannot be produced. It has to be allowed to happen. But that is just what the rational mind cannot endure. It wants to control everything. It is not prepared to be silent, to be still, to allow things to happen. Of course, there is a passivity of inertia, but this is an “active passivity.” It is what the Chinese call wu wei, action in inaction. It is a state of receptivity.”
Bede Griffiths (1906 – 1993), Benedictine monk and yogi
Chorlton Unitarians 