To begin let’s make some distinctions. When I was growing up the function of the news was to inform you about things going on in the world. The function of entertainment was to provide some amusement or engrossing story to give you some relief from the ordinariness of your life. The function of advertising was […]
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Thoughts from Contemporary Taoism. T. S. Eliot wrote in his poem East Coker, a part of the longer series Four Quartets. I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hopeFor hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faithBut
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Contemporary Taoism is not a religion and is not an extension of the Chinese traditions and practices associated with traditional Taoism. It is a philosophy, a cosmology, a way of life and a spiritual practice that arises from Lao Tsu’s text the Tao te Ching, a work over 2,400 years old. Contemporary Taoism focuses on
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Welcome to this little newsletter and blog post from David Skibbins. In the United States we have received a mandate from a majority of our citizens that all this social justice and climate change stuff is not to their liking. That should make the next for years interesting, as in that Chinese curse, “May you
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Why the Tao Te Ching? We need words that are 2,600 years old. I don’t care that the world of ancient China is very different from our world today. You may wonder what words written centuries ago have to do with our situation. Surprisingly, they are very relevant to our situation. There is a commonality
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Dealing with dread Gulp! Today, we stand on the brink of creating such radical climate change that civilization, as we know it, may not survive. It may just collapse. Or we can start tossing nuclear weapons at each other and end up with a completely barren planet, incapable of sustaining life. As Bette Davis put
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A reflection blind men, an elephant, and on the many spiritual paths. (Warning: In this reflection I am going to paint the essence of several religions with a broad stroke. You may not agree with what I say about the particulars of each religion, but I hope you will get my overall point. Please forgive
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