Showing posts with label Taoism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taoism. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2020

Rules, guidelines and the real teacher.

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Image via Wikipedia When we are lost—such as now during the global COVID-19 pandemic—it’s reasonable to think about finding our way. In s...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Surrendering from surrendering.

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Before After Years ago when I first began to practice yoga, I heard a story of a revered yogi who arose one morning, before dawn, a...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Coming and going.

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“The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.” —Lao Tzu: TaoTe Ching The quote abov...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Whack-a mole: A fundamental look at life.

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The doctor whacking the moles of illness. “Do easy things before they become too hard. Difficult problems are best solved while they ar...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Half full; half empty.

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“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heav...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The action of non-action.

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“To act” presumes an actor. It would be absurd to speak of action otherwise. Action must therefore consider the source—this actor doing the...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The Basement

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Many of my initial posts are building on a fundamental premise  inherent in both Taoism and Buddhism—the premise of dependent origination . ...