Incoherent Thoughts

Action Without Clinging

Published 21 Sep 2025. Written by Jakob Kastelic.

Decisions are illusions, especially difficult decisions. In reality, the only choice available is to sit back and watch events unfold; there is only one way in which they will unfold (at least in this universe), and that’s the way things are going to be.

Action must flow out of detachment from the “human” world of “I” and “mine”; it must be free from thoughts of control, achievement, and getting things done. Instead, the mind must be free to operate on the level of the mind, free to go where mind goes. There is no thought of goal as effect; the mind knows what it is doing when allowed so.

This is not passivity but a kind of wu wei—acting without forcing.