According to Osho, Lao Tzu’s “do nothing” doesn’t abolish effort—it cancels ordinary striving and demands the supreme effort: surrender. Actions are easy; animals act. The hardest labor is to drop the doer, to let go of the ego completely. True non-doing is mastery: an ultimate, all-consuming resolve that ends compulsive effort by yielding totally.
Doing nothing means the toughest work is to stop trying and gently let go of your ‘me’ that wants to control everything.