Intuition

Hawk doesn’t think during the hunt.

It does not care for theory or ethics.

All that it does is natural.

Animals live simple lives close to Tao. They do not need to think or reason: They  never doubt themselves. When they are hungry, they eat. When they are tired, they  sleep. They respond to the cycles of the day according to their intuition.

They mate  at the proper season, and they nurture their young according to their own understanding. When they die, they fall under the teeth of predators or the dispassionate  turning of the seasons.

By contrast, we as human beings depart from the natural norm, and worry  about ethical action. Extremes of behavior have become more varied, running the  gamut from the sadistic to the moralistic.

Tao considers all this artificial and unnatural. Why divorce ourselves from nature?

The follower of Tao prefers to live completely in concert with Tao, avoiding the interference of theory and excessive thought. Though one must first learn skill and  ethics thoroughly, one must come to embody them so completely that they become subconscious.

Reacting to a situation by asking what is right and wrong is already too slow.

One must intuitively do what is correct.

There should be no foreshadowing of an act, nor doubt about oneself.