Do Nothing and Do Everything: An Illustrated New Taoism Hardcover – April 1, 2010

This is a very interesting book that is an easy read.

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For those that love eastern philosophy this book has a lot of wisdom and is a great read. I highly recommend it!

While doing nothing doesn't mean doing nothing, it sounds so alien to the "western" mind. Like any mystical or spiritual tradition, one cannot get "it" by reading about it since all words are merely pointers. I have found that just asking the question "What is there for me to do right now?", I find myself doing things while doing nothing. Tai Chi often labels this as mind directed activity where there is no conflict or sense of force or effort. I would heartily recommend going beyond the book - which I found interesting to be sure - and make contact with someone (if you are lucky enough to find one) who lives this instead of knows about this. If the map looks great, the territory is quite something else.

Qiguang Zhao’s Do Nothing & Do Everything: An Illustrated New Taoism is a chatty, comfortable exposition of Taoism.Zhao uses a great many examples from everyday life; he is showing us, quite clearly, that Tao is about living. It is a philosophy or religion to take everywhere in existence, because the Tao, the Way, is everywhere in existence (and nowhere too, but that is another story).Zhao’s book is a pleasant but sometimes corny read.

Martha Stewart Living MagazineMartha Stewart Living MagazineAugust 2010The importance of Doing NothingText by Mary Duenwald... "There is no absolute way of doing nothing," says Qiguang Zhao, the chair of the Asian languages and literature department at Carleton College, in Minnesota, and the author of Do Nothing & Do Everything: An Illustrated New Taoism (Paragon House; 2010). For some 2,500 years, Taoists have observed the benefits of doing nothing--an art they call wu wei. In modern times, Zhao says, we easily sacrifice too much of our well-being pursuing the familiar ideal of "faster, higher, stronger." A healthy counter-ideal, he says, is "slower, lower, and weaker."And one good way to pursue this is to simply do nothing. When people are "caught in the worries of the future and the regrets of the past, they cannot appreciate the beauty of the present," Zhao says. "Wu wei is to break this chain."...

This was an excellent and easy to read description of Wu Wei. The author passed away recently which seemed unexpected because he was such a healthy athlete. His other books seem interesting and must be out of print because they are much higher in cost. I might be interested in them but do not want to pay $85 for a paperback. Its unlikely they are in the local library. This book will give you something to think about.

I bought this book in order to learn more about Taoism and its history. Zhao does cover that, but to my happy surprise the book is much more than a book about a religion---it is a book about how to live well. Zhao is an artist--with his drawings, and his poetic prose and his approach to life. To call it a "self help book" seems demeaning---it is more elegant and inspired than most such fare; but it truly did help me to smooth out a few bends in my personal life. Anyone who wants to live deliberately and happily would benefit from this book.

I adore this book. Very readable and is about the true philosophical Taoism, not the pseudo-science body alchemy stuff. Very profound and worth every penny.

Easy to read, gives a good understanding about Taoism and Confucianism. The drawings makes it even more interesting. Brings Taoism philosophy closer in an interesting way.