Wuwei, action without forcing

In the received Daodejing, the Dao is said to act without doing yet leave nothing undone; beings transform of themselves if rulers keep to it.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 87 passages across 4 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Psychological Types, Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: 無為, 无为, wuwei, non-agir, non-action