Stop Explaining Your Every Move
Stop Explaining YourselfMost people have developed the habit of providing a reason for every decision they make. Not just the big ones. The small ones too. Why they left early. Why they said no. Why t...
7 Elo 13min
The Thinly Spread Life
The Thinly Spread LifeLook at your week. Count the things that have a claim on you right now. Now ask yourself honestly: is there one thing on that list receiving the full quality of attention it dese...
4 Elo 46min
Don't Be An Employee Of Your Own Mind
Stop Being an Employee of Your Own MindMost people wake up on a Saturday morning and before the coffee is made, before anything has actually happened, the mind has already produced an agenda. Somethin...
31 Heinä 10min
The Big Questions
Carrying Yourself WholeChapter 10 of the Tao Te Ching is unusual. Instead of stating, Lao Tzu asks. Can you carry your body and soul together without separation? Can you love people without possessing...
28 Heinä 42min
Weekend Check-In - Less is the Practice
Chapter 48 — Why Less Is the PracticeMost people who come to Taoism hit Chapter 48 and stop cold. Nothing is done and nothing is left undone. It reads like a riddle, or like the book is telling you to...
24 Heinä 13min
Motivation is NOT required
You Don't Need to Feel MotivatedMotivation is not a magical condition that arrives and makes action possible. It is what action produces. And the person waiting for it to show up before they begin has...
21 Heinä 41min
Weekend Check- In - 3 Taoist Things
Three Things a Taoist Does Every DayMost conversations about Taoism stay at the level of ideas. The water metaphor. The wisdom of not forcing. The value of stillness. People find these things resonant...
17 Heinä 14min
Its is NEVER the situation that is the problem
It Is Never the SituationSomething goes wrong. And the immediate experience, almost every time, is that the situation is the problem — that the way forward runs through the circumstances changing, and...
14 Heinä 44min
