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6 Heart beatingher blood, your bloodmy blood, our blood Lesson # 6 The Tao is our mother.It is mother to everything. Her blood is your blood.Stop looking for it.You are it. From: 81 Lessons from the Tao Te Ching Number Six: The way of the feminine The Tao is called The Spirit of the ValleyMother […]

5the Tao, a bellowsbreaths in and out everything comes alive Lesson # 5 The bare truth is that the Tao doesn’t discriminate.Everything is sacred.It breathes you. From: 81 Lessons from the Tao Te Ching Number Five: Unavoidable The Tao is not sentimentalEventually it tosses aside everything in creation The Sage is not sentimentalThey strip aside

4the knot in my heartunravelsin stillness Lesson # 4 We swim in the Tao. Everything swims in the Tao.Water swims in the Tao.Time swims in the Tao.Everything changes.Sharp becomes blinding, becomes unraveled. becomes dust. All of the ten thousand thingsare swimming and changingin the stillness of the Tao. Better yet, dare to do nothing and

3ravenpecking through the dusty grassthe first raindrop falls Lesson # 3 Guard your gold closelyand someone will steal it from you.Beam out your light and the rest of us are covered in shadows.There is no hope,except to give it all away. Lead by giving people what they truly need, and not what you think they

2as the river shoves into a now muddy seait cries, “I still exist!” Lesson # 2 No opposites endure. Beauty pokes its face out of ugliness. Goodness wraps evil around itself. The coin flips, the front becomes the back and then becomes the front again. Therefore act, but do not teach. From: 81 Lessons from

Chapter One- Begin Here Haiku: the robin’s songslices into the stillnessa silver blade Short Form: Lesson # 1 Names are lies. Speak the name of a thing and you kill it. You dare to limit it to your puny ideas about what a thing might be. You carve it out from the everything that it

For the next 81 weeks we will be taking a thorough study of the Tao Te Ching chapter-by-chapter. The posts will begin with a Haiku tangentially related to the material in this chapter. Then will come a shorter version of the chapter from my book 81 Lessons From the Tao Te Ching. . This will

I am looking for folks all over the world to join me in playing a game to spread Lao Tsu’s wisdom everywhere. It is free to play. Just send me an address and I will mail you a deck of 81 cards. The Game with the Deck of the Tao How to play the game:

I worked with clients with addiction issues for two decades. I still hear folks say, “I don’t understand why they just don’t just stop.” I hope this letter will help you understand. There is a good reason why people get drawn into addiction. Addiction feels so good. Maybe it’s that wave of relaxation at the

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