Category: philosophical counseling
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Without Stirring
I’m fond of the Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo translation of the opening chapter of the Daodejing: TAO called Tao is not TAO. Names can name no lasting name. Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth. Naming: the mother of the ten thousand things. Empty of desire, perceive mystery. Filled with desire, perceive manifestations. These have the same…
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DIY Ecology Of Practices Or Iterative Best Practices?
A recent post summarizes the argument in the title: “Why The Therapeutic Needs The Spiritual And Vice Versa And Why They Both Need Philosophy.” On Twitter, I discussed the matter further with my friends @DGozli and @peternlimberg: https://twitter.com/peternlimberg/status/1172199072578621440 I’d like to reflect further on this spiritual and historical moment with special reference to this chart. Historical Context…
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A Provisional Map Of Spiritual Experience
It’s as though you were inhabited by or nailed to thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and sensations. As though you were in each thought (etc.) or held captive by each thought (etc.). So absorbed in each thought (etc.) were you that you knew of nothing else. Then perhaps you were looking out the window one day and, quite…
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Coming To The Other Side Of Total Work: The Way Of Loss And The Way Of Wonderment
An Open Question @jonnym1ller and I were recently corresponding about the relationship between Total Work and spiritual practices that disclose the one substance that reality is. I posed what he called an “open question”: Re: open question: My take is that there are (only?) 2 ways: what I call 'the way of loss' (WL) &…
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Neti Neti: We Are NOT REALLY Workers
I define Total Work as the process by which human beings are transformed into Workers and nothing else as more and more aspects of life are transformed into work. Take the bit about Workers as the starting point of inquiry. Start here: What sorts of things does the Worker focus his attention on? Simply, whatever…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 