Weekend Check-In - The End of Summer

The Summer Is Almost Over — And That Is Not a Bad Thing

Something happens in late August that most people feel immediately. The light shifts. The shadows are longer. The air in the morning carries something that was not there two months ago. The season is talking to you.

For a lot of people this produces a low-grade grief because after all, the summer was supposed to be more than it was, and now it is ending before it became what it was meant to be.

But in this weekend check-in, Kit Mann looks at what the Taoist tradition actually says about this moment. The end of summer is not a loss. It is a signal. The cycle is moving, and the question is not how to hold onto what is leaving — it is how to prepare for what is coming.

Autumn is the season of gathering back. The tree does not wait for winter to start moving its energy toward the roots. It begins now. And so does the Taoist.

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Weekend Check-In: Back To Basics

This Is Not Just a Philosophy PodcastA lot of people listen to shows like this one the same way they read books they find interesting. They take something in, find it resonant, think about it for a wh...

4 Sep 14min

Stop Going To War With Your Past Self

Most people who have done real work on themselves end up in the same strange place. They have genuinely changed. They are not who they were. And they cannot stop being at war with the person they used...

1 Sep 45min

Weekend Check in -There Is No "But" in Taoism

I love what Taoism says about living in the present, but I can't stop worrying. I know I need to let this go, but I've been hurt too many times. I'm sorry I did that, but here's why.The word but does ...

28 Aug 14min

Let's Not Try So Hard

Lets Not Try So HardMost people who begin a serious spiritual practice end up in the same place eventually. Not enlightened. Exhausted. Every difficult moment becomes a test of the practice. Every neg...

25 Aug 51min

Reconnecting in a Disconnected World

The schedule belongs to the employer. The food comes from somewhere you'll never see. The light is set by a switch. And the connection to natural cycles that Taoism considers the ground of everything ...

18 Aug 49min

Weekend Check-In: The Tao is Everywhere. Just Look

The Tao Is Already There — You Just Have to LookIt's in the weed pushing through the sidewalk crack. It's in the dog who is completely inside the joy of this particular walk with no memory of yesterda...

14 Aug 9min

What is Love, Anyway

We have spent our lives being taught that love needs a relationship to be real. That loving someone who doesn't love you back is a wound to be healed. That loving someone you've lost, or left, or grow...

11 Aug 49min