Wu Wei

     Taoism that originates from China hold a simple concept of No Doer[Wu Wei]What is  meant by No Doer? It is a concept based on observations on things that happens around us and within us.

    Looking at nature,we find that many events happens because certain conditions favour it. Lets take rain for instance. When water vapour in the air becomes more concentrated depending on prevailing temperature and pressure,there will be a change of phase as the vapour transform into liquid water resulting in rain. We said that IT rain because of certain condition of humidity,temperature and atmospheric pressure. We can also stipulate a concept that The God of rain call for rain. In the earlier concept,there is No doer and things happen. In the latter suggestion,the doer is the God of rain.

    To make the concept of doer ship holds,we must then have God of wind,God of Thunder and lightning.The God of mountains and rivers and a whole host of Gods to manage the affair of the world and the universe.

    Modern science have explained the causes of most natural phenomenon and things happens because of gathering of certain conditions. When the conditions are in place, the event happens.

   The concept run into problem when we regard deeds done by sentient being. The human appear to be the doers of so many things, constructing the highways, dams, high rise, rockets and space station, etc. So how do we reconcile doership and non doership. Here we apply the transcendental wisdom of Anatta to establish that human beings are illusions and are mere false appearance. As credit of human's effort is due to personal selves and we know they do not exist, then what doer are we talking about. The sutra states, all things are done, but there are NO Doer thereof. We can also say No Doer is just a corollary of NO self [Egolessness of a personal identity]

   Human can be looked at as flesh robots responding to thoughts [instructions down loaded onto their CPU] As we cannot establish a creator of thoughts which are responses to stimuli and arises out of conditions and similar to that for rain and lightning.