No Try

I would prefer to compare Yoda's statement "Do or do not, there is no try", to this:

"Act without doing; work without effort." -Lao Tzu

Yoda says, "There is no try", as if it were a truth of reality. As if to say to Luke, "Forget about effort, forget about trying. Just let it happen." To seek, to try, to put forth effort, is to admit the possibility of failure. This way of thinking lacks in faith, which is I think what Yoda was teaching.

Bruce Lee also said this about his fighting: "I do not hit. It hits all by itself."

To let go, to give oneself to the "It", is to no longer need to put forth effort, or try, because... to put it simply.... the Force is with you.

Streen - Streen@thejedi.org www.thejedi.org