In just over 1.5 hours, I'll go life with my weekly #Taoism #podcast on #youtube!

I'm working through 365 #Tao by Deng Ming-Dao and talking about the foundations and basics of Taoism today. I'll talk about different #translations I enjoyed and which texts I got started with. I hope you come join me!

https://www.youtube.com/live/JpYVSAoND-w?si=pOnyhttfiMDvwwEO

I wrote a #poem #today using my favorite philosophical phrase as the title and then expanding upon it. I first heard it from my #Taoism teacher, George Thompson, and I wanted to share it with you all. Here is a special "friends link" to bypass the paywall. Enjoy!

You Are a Walking Talking Miracle of Nature: Let the miracle shine forever.

https://thetaoist.online/you-are-a-walking-talking-miracle-of-nature-7ba34132d5b7?sk=05f8d9d5d7793a3abe15a84df2e84ba5

#poetry #writing @poetry @philosophy #philosophy #Taoism

Hey! Don't forget that my first weekly #Taoism & #Meditation session will start this Sunday at 11 AM central time. I'll be posting the recordings on YouTube later in the week. It will happen on @thetaoistonline #Discord #community. You can join using the link below if you want to attend. It's #FREE!

https://discord.gg/7Ghw6GaXKs

#Introduction

Hello fellow Kolektivists.

I'm here to join and support those opposed to growing fascism in US and world politics, environmentalism and local governance and political activism.

My political and environmental activism dates back to the early 1970s in Nebraska, Wyoming, Alaska, New Mexico and California. I work locally to promote public participation in local government, and to reveal the effects of global fascism on local politics and civil affairs.

#Fascism #Government #SantaCruzCounty #California #LocalGovernment #Environmentalism #Biodiversity #Ecology #EarthFirst! #NaturalWorld #ComplexityTheory #ChaosTheory #Taoism #Zen

"If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it." #quotes #quoteoftheday #taoism #letgo

"Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit." #taoism #quote #quoteoftheday #habits

A good friend of mine is going through a hard time and asked me for some advice about #Taoism. So, with her permission, I turned my answer into an article. You can read it for free below:

https://thetaoist.online/your-internal-contradictions-contradict-your-internals-c87e21c6b476?sk=8b74daca9caac2c72e608020e65f1728

#philosophy #religion #self #emotions #medium

A good friend of mine is going through a hard time and asked me for some advice about #Taoism. So, with her permission, I turned my answer into an article. You can read it for free below:

https://thetaoist.online/your-internal-contradictions-contradict-your-internals-c87e21c6b476?sk=8b74daca9caac2c72e608020e65f1728

#philosophy #religion #self #emotions

"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." #quotes #quoteoftheday #taoism #selfimprovement

Someone online today asked me what was the difference between #nihilism
and #Taoism. I don't know much about nihilism beyond basics so I looked up comparisons and found this amazing quote.

A nihilist will look at their life and say, "My existence has no purpose."

A Taoist will look at their life and say, "My existence IS my purpose."

From a Taoist's perspective, that is spot-on correct. Anyone out there a #nihilist? Does that quote ring true from your standpoint?

#philosophy @philosophy

"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty." #quote #quoteoftheday #wisdom #taoism

Joe Santanello posted a great video interview of Mountain Gardens in Burnsville NC.

Joe Hollis has been living in the hills of NC for 50 years studying, teaching, and learning #permaculture #medicinalherbs #solar #Taoism

Good News is Joe wants to teach you! Come learn for a day, a week, or months!

Also, Joe had a significant fire at his facility last year that burned down the herb shop and library.
GoFundMe, Workshop signups, and YouTube interview links below:

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water.

Be still and allow the mud to settle.

- Laozi

#taoism #spirituality

The Bay Of Fundy looking out from #novascotia toward #newbrunswick

I'm a human being, not a human doing.

74 years and counting on this beat up and much abused twirling mudball we share with the only life there is in the Universe(s), as far as we know.

Let's save some of it!

No Fucking compromise in Defense of Mother Earth!

#EarthFirst! #RadicalEnvironmentalism #Ecocentrism #DeepEcology #GreenAnarchism #Ecosocialism #Withway #Taoism #Zen

There are many ways of building a world view that remains consistent with continuing observations of the world around us: religion, science, philosophy. culture, history, economics, to name the most obvious.

My goal is to craft a personal world view that views humans and human activities as one with the natural world, such that we stop destroying and polluting natural habits and species that support all life on this planet.

#Ecocentrism #Taoism #Zen #Culture #Nature #NaturalWorld #Ecology

I just discovered 24 hours and counting of Alan Watts lectures all in one place. And now you can too 🙂
https://vid.puffyan.us/playlist?list=PLqGJSfj5N-pKxwOFjYC6bxQhTEWegGDdZ
#AlanWatts #taoism #christianity #philosophy #zen

Singapore, August 2023

The Taoists were leading an indulgent procession today. It’s the 7 month of the lunar calender and the Taoists here believe that the spirits and ghosts have one month away from hell to drink, dance and smoke. In our street they performed rituals, offerings and dances and blessed the bar downstairs.

#Singapore #Taoism

Another striking similarity is between what I was writing about regarding the butterfly story in the Zhuangzi and this passage from "Beyond Nature and Culture" by anthropologist Philippe Descola:

https://freeanduneasy.blog/humanity-as-a-condition/

#Daoism #Taoism #Zhuangzi #Anthropology

But rather than be carried along by circumstances and manipulated by those who can see the weaknesses & behavior tendencies that we ignore, we can work w/our own characteristics & be in control of our own lives. The Way of Self-Reliance starts with recognizing who we are, what we've got to work with, & what works best for us.” —The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff

#Taoism
#TaoOfPooh.

Mountain rain

flows without effort

into the basin.

#mastoprompt (basin) #Haiku #Poem #Poetry #WuWei #Taoism #Zen