I have been digesting multiple translations of the Tao Te Ching for over 49 days. The past two days my writing came out in the form of poetry. But, I got to be honest, it felt really good. Something about writing by feeling instead of sense, feels so much more expressive and meaningful than tryingContinue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 49: The Tao Decoded”
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Tao Te Ching Day 48: The Lies That Bind
Have we any meals for the meaningless? Can we enjoy the teaming ambivalence of our prosperity that grows the cells of our bodies to weigh on our souls. Dirty dishes and ragged coughs. Thirsty bitches and Un-cuffed power. Wiser ones before and still a-facing the hour. Go to the land of milk and honey andContinue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 48: The Lies That Bind”
Tao Te Ching Day 47: Long Day
Those who know do not talk Those who talk do not know TTC 56 (Lin) Some day’s speak for themselves. “Close the mouth Shut the doors Blunt the sharpness Unravel the knots Dim the glare Mix the dust This is called Mystic Oneness.” TTC 56 (Lin) I also call this meditation, or as I haveContinue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 47: Long Day”
Tao Te Ching Day 46: Home
I stepped away from it all today. My girlfriend and I packed the mountain bikes in the truck and went in search of a mountain. Luckily we had a pretty good idea where one was. Good thing mountains aren’t always moving all over the place of their own accord, how would anyone take a hike?Continue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 46: Home”
Tao Te Ching Day 45: Greed
I see us looking out our windows. Peering longingly into the haunting world full of empty promises and desperate grasping of misshapen dreams. We were promised paradise yet we are finding dystopia. We look to the sky angrily as if it made us pour our souls down the abyss of more. We look gauntly aroundContinue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 45: Greed”
Tao Te Ching Day 44: A Need For Stillness
At the juncture between exhaustion and unending stress we can find a place that I like to call, “who the hell cares.” In this place we get out of the worry game and move instead to the place of let’s see what happens. I read the headlines to only two headlines in the past 4Continue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 44: A Need For Stillness”
Tao Te Ching Day 43: A Story
A distinguished man walks upright to the sound of his breath and the beat of his own heart. Pushing forward beyond what others would call common sense, into another realm. A realm of his own sense, born from the depths of hell and the farthest reaches of heaven. He moved into an apocalypse stance toContinue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 43: A Story”
Tao Te Ching Day 42: Subtle Clarity
“If one wishes to shrink it, One must first expand it. If one wishes to weaken it, One must first strengthen it. TTC 36 (Lin) When I was a kid I loved milk and milk based products. I would consume a gallon of milk in about two days. I was a gluten. I remember aContinue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 42: Subtle Clarity”
Tao Te Ching Day 41: War II
I feel, as of late, that I am at war with myself all over again. My knowing self, my higher self understands what must be done to end the war. But my lower self, my animal self feels that it just needs to push harder. If only we keep going forward harder eventually our opponentContinue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 41: War II”
Tao Te Ching Day 40: Outcomes
We try, we really do. I see it everyday in every person I meet. There is such a great effort given to being the very best version of ones self in the eyes of another. I see the exhaustion of so many worn out people, sleeping on the shoulders of those with blood shot eyesContinue reading “Tao Te Ching Day 40: Outcomes”
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