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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I know, I know, everybody's got chinese on them. I know.
That pair of symbols is "wu wei". After the notion of the Tao itself, wu-wei is probably the second most central concept of Taoism. Literally it translates to "no-action", and it expresses a way of being at one with one's surroundings and allowing one's actions to be given by and expressions of that oneness.
I'm not a Taoist exactly, but it's probably as close to what I'm working to create myself as as anything else commonly practiced by any world culture. And wu-wei is as close to what I'm out to bring myself into the world as as anything else I've ever seen. |
It would be good to get the opinion of a native Chinese speaker, but that looks like 無為, which is Japanese for idleness/inactivity (possibly with the same Taoist implications as the Chinese you mention). I did a search and found that the traditional Chinese characters for wu wei are 無爲, slightly different. Either would probably be understandable, but it always helps to fact check before taking the plunge
