Ziran

ZiranThe ancient concept of spontaneous self causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic. Ziran, an idea from ancient Daoism, defies easy translation into English but can almost be captured by the term "spontaneity." It means "self causation," if "self" is understood as fundamentally plural, and "causation" is understood as sensitivity and responsiveness. Applying

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