Month: December 2020

• December 2, 2020

  Reading The Tao Te Ching: The Tao Is Mystery: A Meditation

  The Core Taoist Teaching The core Taoist teaching, especially as it’s found in The Tao Te Ching (alt.: The Daodejing) can be reduced to five tenets. In this reading, which is, above all, a meditation, I select five seminal chapters from TTC (the Hinton translation) to illustrate this tenet. They are Chapters 1, 11, 16,…
• December 1, 2020

  After I Realize The Answer, The Whole Cosmos Dances

  “Who am I?” is really the first question. If true, isn’t it mysterious how easily each “I” forgets “I-self”? But it is true! When I hear, who hears? When I see, who sees? When I taste, who tastes? “Don’t be daft! You do!” “I do? Well, who am I?” When I think, who thinks? In…