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• in Lifestyle
  Modern Concept of "Flow" Has its Roots in Taoism
  Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience lectures in Dallas.
  by toddwrightnow / on Mar 1, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “taoism”

 

• Daily Tao - Seeking Your Tail

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Words cause confusion. In times of confusion, people read the big book. Truth is so simple, they refuse it and seek the complex. Daily Tao is a reprint from Ta-Wans blog, Daily Cup of Tao , which offers one post per day for an entire year. You also can read these posts in an ebook .
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• Speaking of Insufficiency I

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Scott Bradley I have just begun Fung Yu-lans The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy and have started with the chapter on one of my favorite topics, the so-called Neo-Taoists of the Third and Fourth Centuries. This was actually a rather disparate group of thinkers ranging from the free-spirited Seven Sages of the ...
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• Assertiveness and Receptivity I

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Scott Bradley In "A Heart Like a Meadow" (yesterdays post) I found myself faced with the prospect of advocating what would appear to be a one-sided view of the human response to being-in-the-world. Everything happens to a meadow; a meadow does nothing. Yet, the meadow is an event of wonderful fecundity. The ...
  1 week ago

• 3W 69

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Nearer my tail to thee, the kitten remarked - as with a final desperate leap she overreached herself and fell head-over-heels into the pond. # ~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~
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• A Heart Like a Meadow

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Scott Bradley Consider a meadow. Meadows just happen. Infinite forces are ever at work. Stars explode. Worlds form. Climates change. Glaciers cover and uncover. Trees invade and retreat. Creeks shift and meander. Species flourish and founder. Forces beyond reckoning make a meadow. And yet, meadows ...
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• The Golden Rule: The Essence of Interconnectedness

  
  Create and Share - Creating a kinder world — Authority: 111
  A strange thing happened at the US Republican South Carolina debate on January 16th, 2012… the Golden Rule was vehemently booed  (click the link to watch the video). In a display of being as opposed as one can be to the central teaching in essentially every major ancient and modern belief system , a sizable ...
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• 3W 68

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Destroy the ego, hound it, beat it, snub it, tell it where it gets off? Great fun, no doubt, but where is it? Must you not find it first? Isnt there a word about catching your goose before you can cook it? The great difficulty here is that there isnt one. ~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu ...
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• 3W 67

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Affective fixation on the personality of a master, teacher, guru , is a serious obstacle to liberation: the person of the liberator becomes the gaoler ... The Chinese Masters told their monks to kill the Buddha if by chance they met him. ~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for ...
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• 3W 66

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt. ~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~
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• My Life Is Good

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Scott Bradley "It is precisely because I consider my life good that I consider my death good." ( Zhuangzi 6:26; Ziporyn) My life is good. This is true in innumerable practical ways, most of which are a consequence of the luck of the draw. I am not an infant dying of starvation in Somalia, for instance. But ...
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• 3W 64

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  The Buddha forbore to specify: as long as there is any one to suffer - he will. ~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~
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• 3W 63

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  The seeker is the found, the found is the seeker - as soon as it is apperceived that there is no time. ~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~
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• 3W 61

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  If we clearly apperceive the difference Between direct apprehension in Whole-mind And relative comprehension by reasoning In mind divided into subject-and-object, All the apparent mysteries will disappear. For that will be found to be the key Which unlocks the doors of incomprehension. ~ A selection ...
  2 weeks ago

• Line by Line - Verse 56, Lines 10-11

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  (Such an one) cannot be treated familiarly or distantly; ~ James Legge translation , from The Sacred Books of the East , 1891 ~ He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, ~ Gia-fu Feng and Jane English translation , published by Vintage Books, 1989 ~ They cannot ...
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• Worldwide Association for the Study of Religion: a work in progress

  
  Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist — Authority: 89
  The Worldwide Association for the Study of Religion is an association for scholars studying religion or with an interest in religion that aims to develop a platform accessible to any scholar or student wherever he or she might live.  The goal of the association is to study religion in all of its forms and not to ...
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• Daily Tao - Structure of Death

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Does concrete make for an attractive river? Would a steel field bring a harvest? Would rules of organisation make ants more efficient? Would paper records improve graciousness of flight? Daily Tao is a reprint from Ta-Wans blog, Daily Cup of Tao , which offers one post per day for an entire year. You also can ...
  2 weeks ago

• Living With Vipers

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Scott Bradley I dont know why I love Nature, but I do. I understand Nature as Tao manifest, but this is not why I love it. Perhaps it is because I realize it is me. The love is visceral. And for this reason I assume that all humans love Nature, though some are more alienated from its beautiful presence than ...
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• 3W 60

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Having found no self that is not other, The seeker must find that there is no other that is not self, So that in the absence of both other and self, There may be known the perfect peace, Of the presence of absolute absence. ~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from ...
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• Taoist has no life to lose

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  Ta-Wan I just saw a snail stretching its body up over a wall, shell following. If we pollute and kill this world and take other life with us, nature is intelligence, shell have a way back. The way of nature may be not in our favour, she may use what we deem ours and take from us to move herself forwards. She does ...
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• Line by Line - Verse 56, Lines 8-9

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 132
  and bring himself into agreement with the obscurity (of others). This is called the Mysterious Agreement. ~ James Legge translation , from The Sacred Books of the East , 1891 ~ Be at one with the dust of the Earth. This is primal union. ~ Gia-fu Feng and Jane English translation , published by ...
  2 weeks ago

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