Author: Andrew Taggart
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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,…
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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…
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Unhook The Fixation
Excitation is not what we think it is. We think it’s a good thing, but that’s not quite right. Paying close attention to the experience shows the ordinary mind getting yanked hard in the direction of the object of excitement. It might seem as if it’s a delightful experience to think about this idea, but…
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It’s OK To Be Weird…
It’s OK to be weird–so long as you don’t stay there forever. The word itself has a weird history, its modern usage derivable from Shakespeare’s MacBeth where we read of weird sisters, wayward and wonderful, fantastical and prophetic. Thus does weird come to take on the trappings of “the supernatural,” “the other-worldly,” “the wonderful,” “the…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 