The Master Does Nothing

You’ve been trained to worship effort. To call exhaustion “integrity.” To believe the only way to get free is to grind, strategize, and force life to cooperate.

And it’s why you’re successful… and still not at peace.

Wu Wei isn’t “do nothing” like a lazy person. It’s “do nothing” like a master: stop reacting from fear, pleasure-chasing, identity, and hustle. Get into alignment. Stay at peace. Then only give your attention to what feels like peace, and let everything else starve.

One small internal shift at the top changes everything downstream. That’s why miracles can happen faster and easier than your mind can explain.

You don’t need more pushing. You need a new level of consciousness.

Live in alignment. Follow the peace. Let life handle the rest.

Questions? Reach out. I’m here to help.

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Welcome to Teachings from the Masters with Daryl Sean Price. Hi, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. So I want to talk to you today more about the Wu Wei. So the Wu Wei is a philosophical concept from Taoism that states that the Master does nothing, and yet through the Master, nothing is left undone. And this is where I get a lot of conflict from people in the world when I talk about doing nothing so that you can create your most miraculous, happiest life in the easiest way possible. I get a lot of people commenting things like, well, you can't just do nothing. You actually have to go out and work, and you're telling people not to work and you're creating laziness and you're creating this. And I want to say before I jump in, this isn't about an argument or rebuttal, because they're 100% right. But it's about a perspective shift. Because you are a creator no matter what you are doing. That's who you are. You are creating. Everything that's outside of you, you have created as a reflection of your level of alignment. Let me dig into more details about what I mean with that. Your level of alignment has different levels of awareness or consciousness. And this is talked about in every tradition throughout history. The most commonly used one that is the most frequently referred to is the Hindu chakra system. The levels of consciousness, the energy gateways, whatever you want to call them. But whatever level you're operating at and vibrating at and in harmony with and in alignment with is how you create. So let's go through each of these one at a time. Then I want to point out to you how you do nothing and yet have everything done through you because you're the master. So if you start at that bottom chakra, that bottom gate, the earth gate, the root chakra, if all you're doing is ever vibrating at that level and it is not open and free and allowing you to channel energy up to a higher level of consciousness or awareness, you're in a state of fear. Fear versus survival, fear versus survival. I believe the entire world is out to get me. I have to protect myself. I'm going to hoard everything I can right now so I can have everything I need just in case. And yes, you can create like that. You can go out and spend as much time and energy as you can to go build your own place that is well defensible, that has all of the food you'll ever need in case the apocalypse happens. And that's your reality. But then if you allow yourself to flow past that, allow yourself to be in alignment with that next level, there's your water gate, there's your sacral. That's where the feelings and the enjoyment and the pleasure of life come in. And sure, you're still gonna have some of that mindset of, oh, well, the world's out to get me, or I'm just going to always be a victim of this. So now you're the YOLO people. Now you're living for the weekend. Now you're doing what you have to do, but you're trying to get every moment of fun that you can squeeze out of life while you're still having to deal with what life gives you. Again, it's still in response to the external. Then when you allow yourself to flow beyond that, you hit that fire gate, that solar plexus. That emotional solar plexus is about identity. So because that emotional solar plexus is about identity, it's about the way the world works and the way you perceive it externally. You have to work hard to make money. The harder you work, the more money you make. If you have three or four side hustles, you can use that. If you invest the money the right way, eventually you'll become a millionaire, etc., etc. etc. And yes, this is where most of society operates. And yes, you see this over and over again. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, work really hard, invest the right way, save money, don't get into debt, etc., etc. etc. etc. So when you're at that level, you're still in response to the external world. And all of your effort and all of your energy at those three levels is about I'm gonna go change what's outside of me to protect myself, my identity, my what I feel, what I enjoy, and my safety. Then you move up to where the heart is. So the heart is where internal and external start to shift and become a reflection of each other. Your heart is where you get to process all the internal energies, the external experiences, and combine them to create something new. And if all you're doing is responding to the external, that's all you're feeding your heart, that means you're full of the feelings of fear, dread, I'm not good enough, I wasn't born to the right family, so I'll never be able to get ahead. I've got to push really hard to get ahead, whatever it is. Those are the feelings you'll have. So skip past the heart for a second. I want to move up to the air gate or the throat chakra. That's all about ideas. That is all about thinking, that is about strategy. This is the level where you are gonna say, I don't want to do it this way. I want to think outside the box, I want to innovate, I'm gonna become an entrepreneur if I go and do this, if I can learn how to market, if I can learn how to be an influencer, if I can spend all my time on TikTok and Facebook. So it's I'm going to change the identity through thinking about it a different way. All the thoughts are happening internal, but they're still all happening in response to external circumstances. So at that level, those are the people that are the hustle culture. Those are the people that are pushing really hard. Those are the people that I'm waking up at 5 a.m. to meditate for six hours so that I can be in the right uh frame of mind, so I can get the right opportunities. I'm gonna go out and network with everybody all the time, and I'm going to get a strategy that works for me to create all the things I desire. Now I want to point out at any of these levels, yes, you create, and yes, you can get results. When we're talking about the woo-way, we're talking about the master, by the way. And that is you, and that is your potential. The master has stopped operating at all these levels and allows them to just be what they are. And I'll get there. So hang on with me. So now let's get to the spirit below gate. The gate of the spirit below, or the third eye, that's imagination, that's possibilities. That's, oh, I could be president one day, I could be an astronaut. That's the kids who say, I want to grow up to be a fireman. And they can imagine what that's like. So at that level of imagination, those are the innovators, those are the people that are already naturally thinking outside the box. Those are the people that are already coming up with strategy that just supports the imagination because they're living so much in their imagination they won't let it go. That's the Walt Disney created Disney World and Disneyland level. Then you hit the gate of the spirit above, the crown chakra. That's the level of everything is energy. The energy of creation that exists in all things, that is your spirit, in its purest form, is just energy. It has no shape or form or anything you can physically interact with. It's just pure energy of creation. So when you're operating at that level, that means you are flowing in harmony with all of creation around you all the time. You are at peace no matter what is happening, and you create from that point. So here's what happens when you start to become that master who is in alignment and at peace no matter what is happening, no attachment to anything on the outside. And when something arrives that feels like peace, it gets your attention. When something arrives in your consciousness and awareness that doesn't feel like peace, it no longer gets your attention. One little tweak here at that level of yes, I pay attention when it feels like peace, or no, I don't, has big effects as it vibrates down through all the different levels of consciousness that you are. You exist at all these levels at all times. Sure, you can block that energy flow, you can stop it from going upward, you can stop it from flowing and circling the way that it naturally will inside of you. When you're open and free and flowing and you are at peace because you are living in alignment, your spirit, heart, mind, and body are in sync no matter what. One little tweak of this does not get my attention, because it doesn't feel like peace, no attachment to what's going to happen mentally, no attachment to what that might mean in the external world, or this does feel like peace, so I'm leaning into it without any attachment of what the results will be, creates a huge ripple through the others. It's kind of like holding a pendulum in your hand. You can chase the little crystal at the bottom of the pendulum, and when you pull it towards you, the moment you let go, it swings away. Or if you can push it away from you, the moment you let go, it swings back towards you. But if you're up at this level, all you gotta do is move your hand a little bit and you can get that thing swinging wherever you want. Just one little tweak. Because when you're in alignment, all you do is that one little tweak of follow the peace. And everything falls into place in miraculous ways, bigger than you could have if you were pushing and trying and doing at all the different levels. Let me kind of illustrate how that works. So you are in alignment, you are at peace no matter what. You have no attachment to what's happening around you. Okay, there's trees, there's birds, there's grass. It's an experience. I'm aware of it. I'm not attached to it. It doesn't mean anything besides I'm having that experience. Oh, it feels like peace to go do this thing. I'm gonna go do it. Well, why does that make any sense? I thought you were gonna be a person who does this and you wanted to have financial freedom and you want health and you want relationships, and why are you doing that? That doesn't make any sense. Because it feels like peace. And I'm choosing to live in alignment and follow the peace. So you make that choice. The moment you do whatever that thing is, let's say it is I'm going to go eat a pickle. Boom. The possibilities of eating a pickle, how to get the pickle, what it might taste like, imagining starts to kick in right away. The strategy starts to kick in right away of going to the fridge, opening the jar, going to the store if you don't have one, etc. And all of that energy of creation, of having that experience of I'm gonna go eat a pickle gets fed into your heart, fed into that alchemical lab that is part of who you are, that is where the transformation happens. Then something unique and special happens because you're the creator. All of a sudden, you are right now in this moment identifying as the person who's going to go get a pickle, no matter what. That's my focus. I'm gonna go get a pickle. I am now the person who's about to go eat a pickle. Yeah, that may not seem like a big identity, but it is for this moment because you're following the peace, you're following that inspired action. And you will have whatever experience of enjoyment or not enjoyment from that pickle, and you will find a way to get that physical thing that is the pickle. And yes, this is kind of a small example, but it happens on the big stuff too, exactly that way. So I'm now living in this beautiful property in Maine. I'm working with business partners and tribe members to build a life that we love that is exactly the way we want. And just this week had two opportunities that just found me out of the blue that I wasn't looking for, I didn't search for, I didn't do anything, I didn't network. But they are opportunities to drastically increase our ability to live financially free. That just fell in our lap and seemed perfect for us. All I did stay in alignment, be at peace no matter what's happening around me, and follow the piece. Open this email, go talk to this person. Hey, go ahead and fill out that application, go reach out to this person. I wasn't out networking, I wasn't out pushing, I wasn't out hustling. I got the same results as somebody who was in the hustle culture and out there networking and pushing and trying to find. But I got them faster and easier. Because all I was doing was moving that little point at the top of the pendulum to get it to swing into big results and move it whatever direction is most aligned with me. Because my focus is on being in alignment. And this has happened so many times in my life. I have a thought, doesn't make sense, but I follow the peace, and I go and do whatever that thought is because it feels like peace, and boom, here's a miracle. Here's everything you just imagined, here's who you wanted to be, here's the opportunity. It's there for you. You have it. This happened when I started performing at Renaissance festivals and working on celebrity floors, which I always imagined doing. I didn't go out and hustle and push, and I gotta go make this happen. They all just kind of appeared for me. And that's who you are. You are the master. The master does nothing. Because the master doesn't have to do anything. All the master does is stay in alignment. And when anything, anything comes up that feels like peace, you follow that. When anything comes up that doesn't feel like peace, it doesn't get your attention. And then rippling through all of the gateways that naturally exist in you and the way you interact with creation, you will have the big ripples that are the miracles for your life. I have seen miracles of healing, of financial abundance, of meeting the right people at the right time, of making connections I never thought possible. All because I stayed in alignment and was at peace and chose to follow the peace. And now it's your turn. Because the master does nothing, yet through the master, nothing is left undone. Let's take financial freedom as an example. So you could say, all of society's out to get me, it's all broken. I'm gonna go out and I'm going to work really hard, buy a little piece of land, build my own house on it, save as much as I can, collect all the food that I need to start making my own food because I'm gonna be in trouble if I don't. Okay. And you become financially free through a lot of hard work. You could say, well, I'm gonna do my best to be as free as possible, but you know what? If I need a credit card for emergencies and I've got bills to pay, and if I have to work a little harder and maybe get some overtime, I'll do the best I can. And have whatever moments of enjoyment I do because life is mostly miserable with a couple moments of peace. Okay. You can and still create some freedom. Through a lot of hard work. You can even say, I'm going to do everything the way I'm supposed to. I'm going to save, I'm going to invest, I'm going to take my money, I'm going to put it in the right places, I'm going to prepare for retirement. I'm going to keep going and investing until 10 years down the road, maybe I'll have enough money to go start to enjoy life. And you end up creating freedom through a lot of time and a lot of work. And then you can strategize and say, well, I'm going to go buy these courses, I'm going to go real estate invest. I'm going to go do all these things. I'm going to think outside the box. I'm going to use my money in a different way than most of the general public does. And through a lot of mental effort and work, have financial freedom. You can get into the space of imagining the financial freedom and taking that imagination and saying, okay, I'm going to just focus on that and obsess about that, and just that's going to be my reality. And yes, it will come quicker than all the rest, but it's still going to take some time. Or you can say, I'm the master. I'm imagining the freedom. I've done all of the different things that tell me this is what the identity is that I want. I want that financial freedom. Now I let go and I choose to live in alignment and be at peace. And I choose to follow the peace. Any inspired action that arises, I follow the peace. And watch how quick the miracles happen. And it will not happen in a way that makes sense to your mind because you're shifting your identity. Your mind only processes your current identity through the beliefs you already have chosen are who you are. So if you're shifting your identity to have a new reality, to create a new experience, you can't do that by working within the current one. You have to let go. And this is where the great masters throughout history have been able to create, perform miracles, have been able to bless people and heal them. Because there wasn't an attachment to the outside world, the way it looks, is the way things are. You can take that energy and create anything you want with it. And when you truly tap into just the pure energy, it's like the top of that pendulum. You move it a little bit, you wiggle it, and the pendulum at the bottom swings in big ways. You take that energy and you wiggle it by choosing to live in alignment. Bad things happen around me. I'm at peace. Good things happen around me. I'm at peace. Neutral things happen around me. I'm at peace. Oh, something popped up. I had a thought that felt like peace. I'm gonna follow that. Oh, somebody said something that felt like peace, I'm gonna follow that. Oh, somebody shared something with me and it felt like peace, I'm gonna follow that. Ooh, something popped up that got my attention, made me feel something, but it didn't feel like peace. Okay, that doesn't get my attention anymore. Got it. That's not an alignment. Thank you for showing me that. This leap of faith is the faith that precedes miracles that is talked about in every tradition throughout all of history. And the beauty is it's not something you have to master outside of you. It's not some huge thing you have to train yourself to do. It's the leap you have to take right now that says, I'm gonna choose to be at peace no matter what happens outside of me. I'm ignoring what happens outside of me energetically and focused on being at peace. And then if something pops up that feels like peace, I will follow that. And yes, you, the master, will do nothing. Yet, through the master, you, nothing will be left undone. You will be blessed more than you could imagine, you will have miracles happen greater than you ever thought possible. Because you are the master, and there is nothing greater than the power of you. When you live in alignment and choose to follow the peace, you will naturally create your happiest life and manifest miracles.