Will Rosenzweig | How To Practice The Art Of Wu-Wei

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William, the founder of the Republic of Tea, gardener and entrepreneur, tells us how not doing will allow everything to fall in to place.
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Will Rosenzweig is a mime, magician and master gardener.
As his day job, he serves as a partner of Physic Ventures, the first venture capital firm dedicated to investing in keeping people healthy. Will has been involved in growing more than 20 companies.
This year he is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Tea, where he was Minister of Progress and founding CEO.
Will served on the faculty at UC Berkeley for nearly a decade teaching social entrepreneurship and in 2010 was honoured with the Oslo Business for Peace Award, “the highest distinction... in the area of ethical business.”

[@higgsfieldinthefield9916]

As a musician I sing my songs by heart, if I think of what I am doing I make mistakes, If I just 'do' without thought the music is good, and 'if the music is good the audience will linger. Here lies Wu Wei.

[@marksavoia3687]

Wu Wei of The Way "I can of mine own self do nothing” John 5:30

[@hugmonger]

"I am a venture capitalist" "My father was a rocket scientist" You really just off the bat set this up to be hard to relate to.

[@mylesphillips8548]

lmao

[@brainstalk4577]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ChubbyArcanine]

…. I grew up in South California during the largest economic and informational expansion in history, just be like me!

[@Mark1Mach2]

And look I've a million business cards. Now all I do is do nothing. LMAO.

[@veeveeleo]

I can feel the warmth and love of that trip. What an accomplishment ❤

[@oldproji]

Stop fighting the universe and go the way of nature. All things work out the way intended and do not need forcing. Doing nothing is not being lazy, it is recognising that much more can be achieved without taking control.

[@saketg5954]

I like non doing, but he should have done something about the volume of this video.

[@HugoHenriqueGrah]

Lol, I even download a software to boost the pc volume to hear.

[@LoIi]

i hear it fine

[@naosfls]

@@HugoHenriqueGrah His non-doing made u more interested to his speech by having u to put effort in order to listen hehehe

[@PcBguitarLibrary]

I keep telling my boss Im doing it by not doing it

[@srtaraveleyra]

Thank You!

[@wisher6455]

great lecture, I don't know how it has such less views.

[@MySatora]

Nice lecture. Anybody know what translation of the book he is using?

[@mdruss7]

Looks like the Stephen Mitchell translation

[@clairmontlodgesurvivorsclu4521]

He "didn't" have me at, "I'm a venture capitalist." If he's talking about Wu-Wei, why does he sound like he's so hard at doing it?

[@user-vs9sl2nz8h]

16:30

[@user-ve1pr3wq8l]

the volume :/

[@georgediamond5309]

I think you've missed the whole point of what Lao Tzu was trying to relay. ...

[@MassiveLib]

I cannot practice wei Wu wei, that is the paradox. But as there never was an i to start with all of life there has only ever been wei Wu wei

[@narayanaraoks4090]

Lord Krishna told to do all things without aiming for its results

[@user-ju7ze9to4k]

ks narayanarao that's what I was thinking too.

[@heethjain21]

Thats the point, these concepts are all universal truths, discovered by different people in different timelines expressed in different forms. The deeper we understand religion, the more we realize, that all of them are saying the exact same thing, just in different representations! Like in Taoism, they say Tao is uncomprehendable (we cannot define it). If we consider it in some other religion, its just a representation of GOD there, as we cannot truly define God, understand the decisions and actions of God, we can only experience/feel it

[@AlokAsthana1954]

Basically, Krishna told Arjun to kill his cousins, without compunction. Quite a teacher! Good lesson in non-violence, so passionately claimed by Indians as their culture. In any case, there is a difference between doing without the motivation of result and doing without thinking too much. World of a difference.

[@AlokAsthana1954]

@@heethjain21 - Sorry, Taoism has nothing to do with religion and god. It is about nurturing society, not self.

[@themacocko6311]

@@AlokAsthana1954 Nurturing Society?! The entire book is "bashing" society and its ruling and rulers/government.

[@higgsfieldinthefield9916]

Maybe he should have meditated on 'Not doing' this lecture till he gets his facts and quotes right and understands the concepts.

[@AzfarHussain84]

What are your suggestions for approaching non-doing? Any resources on change and non-doing are welcome. Thanks.

[@douglasallen9225]

Stephen Mitchell.

[@d0nj03]

Kind of slow, boring and meandering way to explain it. Should've got to the point faster. And the quote from the beginning of the Dao De Jing was wrong: it's "the name that *can* be named" (not "can't").

[@user-vs9sl2nz8h]

14:02

[@higgsfieldinthefield9916]

This guy gets it all wrong yet he has written a book teaching something he don't understand? how typical.

[@higgsfieldinthefield9916]

You would think he would at least made an effort to pronounce the words correctly. The 'w; is silent, as anyone with the slightest notion of Tao could tell him.

[@zacharybloo9884]

Lao tzu said that a man who seeks knowledge gains something everyday, while a man who seeks the tao, loses something everyday. So his not having textbook knowledge of the philosophy is actually much more in line with the tenets of the philosophy itself than your douchetastic nitpicking

[@higgsfieldinthefield9916]

Nice lectern, pity the 'do' sign looks like it was made by Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.

[@ratonL]

Higgsfield In the field 🤭🤣🤣😂

[@higgsfieldinthefield9916]

This guy just gets everything wrong, It is pronounced ''dow de jing'' and means the way of change, and He gets his quote completely wrong and it makes no sense. There are so many people getting up in front of audiences and talking about things they don't understand, it's becoming an epidemic of idiots.

[@zacharybloo9884]

I had this substitute teacher that had recently immigrated from Korea one time. Super nice guy. Took all but three mispronounced words for the douchebags in the class to start making fun of him for his accent and not listen to a single word he said after. That's YOU right now.

Nop.

[@higgsfieldinthefield9916]

I don't think this guy really understands Tao, you can't have ''team'' wu wei. it just doesn't work like that.This is a very, very American misinterpretation.

[@zacharybloo9884]

Tell that to the literal thousands of daoist temples around the world practicing communally

[@ultrablue7477]

Be suspicious of someone who talks about profound things, but took the time and effort to create a logotype.

[@sanjayram1101]

What a load of bs!