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Anything Wu in the west is bad

Dao is the way things happen. We are not the center of the world; there are forces moving around the world which are much bigger than we are.

For Westerners anything Wu in the west is bad and negative, it sounds as if you had been invited not to do anything. Dao is the way things happen. We are not the center of the world; there are forces moving around the world which are much bigger than we are and which we have to pay attention to. We need to just follow Dao, so not to act can be a positive thing.

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