We are back to where the old Taoists were with Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching in the neighborhood of 600 years BCE, with living to be in sync with, aligned with, in accord with the movement, the rhythm and flow, of life and being.The fundamental/foundational recognition/understanding is that there is a right wayContinue reading “October 23, 2025”
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September 25, 2025
The old Taoists were right about it all. “Circumstances begetting circumstances,”was their explanation for everything being what it is.Circumstances call for what needs to happen next.And we are called, by our circumstances,to size things up and determine what is called for here, now, and do the right thing, at the right time,in the right way,andContinue reading “September 25, 2025”
January 24, 2025
It would be a reasonably close approximationto say that Taoism was being developed by Shamansin and near China by around 1500 BCE,and that Lao Tzu was creditedwith writing the Tao Te Ching about 500 BCE,and that the Buddha was stirring around in India about that same time.And that about 206-220 CE Buddhism was beingintroduced intoContinue reading “January 24, 2025”
November 12, 2024
The Classic Taoists areLao Tzu–which is more of a collective writing under the pseudonym over timerather than an individual living at a specific point in time and space.Chung Tzu (Or Zhuang Tzu).Lieh-Tzu andWen Tzu (Or Wenzi)These people and their discipleslived out of their own intuition/imaginationin crafting a lifelived in the serviceof doing what was calledContinue reading “November 12, 2024”
January 03, 2021
02 The people who live from their center have an easier time maintaining their balance and harmony amid the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea than the people who have no connection with their center and think that what happens to them is the sum total of their existence. What happens to us is merelyContinue reading “January 03, 2021”
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