s until you stop looking for it.” So practice of wu-wei will give you happiness and those who practice this are the greatest men of all. His last vital message comes in his essay entitled “Perfect Joy” when he sums up by saying: “Heaven does nothing: its doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: it not doing is its rest…All things come from nowhere!…All beings in their perfection are born of non-doing. Hence it is said: Heaven and earth do nothing yet there is nothing they do not do.” Simply stated, nothingness is everything.Smullyan is not much different then Tzu in his thoughts, but then again they are both Taoists. He does have an interesting story though; it is an argument between a Taoist and a moralist over a poem. The poem reads:Whichever the way the wind blows,Whichever the way the world goes,Is perfectly all right with me!This is what the Taoist calls his favorite poem and way in which he lives his life. The idea is not that he agrees with everything that goes on in the world. He, of course, does not think that human pain and suffering is all right, but he is speaking more generally of the world as a whole. The moralist can not accept this poem to begin with because it does not have a definite answer to it and makes no sense to them. Only after the Taoist explains that he is speaking generally of the world can the moralist try to put it into any sense by saying that what the Taoist means is that he accepts the will of God. The Taoist then goes on to explain an instance when he went to a church to try praying and thought it ridiculous to give God his own approval of carrying out his will. If he is the all mighty and powerful he needs no praise from a mere mortal. The main disagreement the two sides have is that the moralist must have reason and order in his life and thought. The Taoist on the other hand is, as described earlier, seeking to find happiness without action...
