Hey, I had to make sure of my sources. It's one thing to quote the ching, another to lay a framework. And I do recognize your quote, though it's differs a bit from the way I know it.
Poem 43
Quote:
The world may be known
Without leaving the house;
The Way may be seen
Apart from the windows.
The further you go,
The less you will know.
Accordingly, the Wise Man
Knows without going,
Sees without seeing,
Does without doing.
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This should be read as the completion, the mystic concept of "reaching, return." The stretch of consciousness that comes from allowing motion to come of itself.
Wei wu wei, "do not do," translated here as "does without doing," is a dynamic concept, and the key to Chinese mysticism.
It is similar, though by no means identical, to the message expressed in Matt. 6:26, "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns ..." There are many notable similarities between taoism and early christianity, whose followers, I might note, called their religion "The Way."