Speak Your Truth

Speaking Your Truth

There is the thing you actually think. And there is the thing you say instead.

Not because you are dishonest. But because somewhere along the way, most people learned that what they actually think is not always welcome. That it creates friction. That it costs something in the currency of approval or belonging or keeping the peace. And so the filtering began — and ran long enough, and quietly enough, that most people have stopped noticing the gap between what is true inside them and what comes out.

In this episode, Kit Mann looks at what the Taoist tradition calls te — your inherent nature, the thing that is specifically and irreducibly you, underneath all the adaptation and management and performance of an acceptable self. And at what it costs when that nature is consistently suppressed. Not to the relationships. To the person doing the suppressing.

This episode is not about being more assertive or saying hard things to people who need to hear them. It is about the practice of staying close enough to your own nature that you have something true to say — and the return to the self that happens when you start saying it.

Also: a listener question from James Key in Tallahassee, Florida, on guided meditation for Taoists — and why the forest the guide takes you to is not your fores

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(93)

Weekend Check In: Time to Meditate

Sit DownMost people who find Taoism do so through the ideas. The philosophy resonates. The way of looking at things shifts. And then they go back to their lives without ever sitting down to do the one...

2 Okt 13min

Navigating Bad News

Navigating Bad NewsBad news does not wait for a good time. It arrives in grocery stores and parking lots and at the dinner table in the middle of an otherwise ordinary Tuesday. And the world rearrange...

29 Sep 46min

The Tao Te Now - Chapter 3

The Tao Te Now — Chapter 3Chapter 3 is fifteen lines. Lao Tzu covers overvaluing, distrust, installed ambition, the confusion that arrives when certainty collapses, and wu wei. In that order. Without ...

27 Sep 26min

Weekend Check-In: Changes Are Coming

You Knew This Was ComingChange arrived this week for someone listening to this. It always does. And the response, almost universally, is some form of: I never saw that coming.In this weekend check-in,...

25 Sep 14min

You Are Not Required To Be Pure

You Are Not Required to Be PureSomeone looked across a table recently and said: I thought you were supposed to be some kind of guru or something.That sentence is the whole of this episode.There is a p...

22 Sep 47min

Tao Te Now - Chapter 2

The Tao Te Now — Chapter 2Chapter 2 follows immediately from where Chapter 1 left off, and it wastes no time.The moment you decide what is beautiful, something else becomes ugly. The moment you decide...

20 Sep 27min

Weekend Check-In - Be Kind To Yourself

Find Some Time for Yourself This WeekendWhen did you last do something purely for yourself? Not to recover so you can work better. Not to be a better partner or parent or friend. Just because you want...

18 Sep 15min