Power for the Peaceful: A Course in Tao

When did Noah build the Ark, goes the popular wisdom? Before the rain.

Preparation for the days of too much or too less seem to be a good practice. To live as we ought is joy. This Verse 59 talks about how to live so that we, and that which we love, endures. It’s simple: Find your joy, and spread it around.

Thanks to Lauren Lausen for your voice, time, and what you do. May all of us find our days beginning in peace, so that we may deal out from our hands the radical hope our world needs. -Marc Mullinax

The Taoist Sage is calm, even in the toughest – or the best – situations life offers. That sage models resilient peace in every situation, not resorting to thought- and conversation-killing cliches or ego maneuvers. That’s why they can join ANYone, ANYwhere, and bring peace, needed help? Why?

Thank you Kimberly Mason for your calm presence and help on today’s podcast. I think you will love her wisdom and questions about our verse.

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The personal becomes public in this Verse 57. You who attempt to practice Wu-Wei in your life, or family … what if the government and rulers practiced Wu-Wei as well as

Stuart Lamkin joins me to discuss this verse. His insights are wise and timely, and the reason why this episode is longer.

May your days begin rooted in spontaneous Peace, so you may know and practice a politics of hope, of which our world is in great need.

This verse starts off with one of the two most famous proverbs in the Tao te Ching: Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know. Talking-up Tao ain’t walking the Tao Path. In the silence, the word-free spaces, are where we then develop the wisdom on how to live wisely, peaceably, and in service to others. Listening more than talking actually gives one cred

Thanks to my quote reader Johnny Richardson, to whom I ask the question this time!

A theologian I read, Paul Tillich wrote: We must abandon the external high and mighty images in which the theistic God has historically been perceived and replace them with internal depth images of a deity who is not apart from us, but who is the very core and ground of all that is. I invite us to see the entire universe as God’s body. That is, there

Verse 55 speaks about the qualities of a person so rooted in Tao they are spontaneously joyful, artless and not contrived, because conforming with the Changeless Tao is the only enlightened way to live. Teased out in this verse is how we exchange this birthright in Tao with a mess of something we have no business messing in. We have seven voices today, and I hope this is a feast in your ears.

May your days begin rooted in spontaneous joy and Peace, so you may know and practice moment-by-moment hope, of which our world is in great need.

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Verse 54 teaches that Tao and its practice are a single events, moment by moment, but we may see them as two

May your days begin rooted in Peace, so you may know moment-by-moment how to regard hope in every

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This verse 53’s episode, on “Lowered Ceilings,” is a call

Melvis Madrigal is my second voice on the podcast this

May your days begin in peace, and become laboratories for radical hope.

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Verse 52 takes us on a wild but life-affirming ride that Tao

In the episode, I make a new call for listeners to contact me for two reasons: (i) to be a reader and question-asker on a future podcast, and (ii) to join me in a new edition of this podcast after we finish all 81 verses, in a podcast we’ll entitle, “My Favorite Verse of Tao te Ching.”

The email to contact me for either is: [email protected].

May your days begin in peace, to become labs and wombs for radical hope.

Tao is the Original Blueprints of the Universe. Te is the architect that makes these Blueprints visible. Tao is the

Joe Bennett is our voice and questioner today. Pink Floyd provides some awesome lyrics.

 May your days begin in radical, lettin’-it-be peace, to become wombs and laboratories for the change-up our world so desperately requires.

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