Brian Graves joined me on this podcast, not just as a quote-reader, but as an actual dialog partner during his question about "How does one grade students with a Taoist sensibility?"

Verse 22 is our focus this week. No matter what we may feel, or however we may act, there is NOTHING WE CAN DO to separate from Tao. The Tao teaching here SO different from many religions popular today: whatever partial, weaker, or exhausted aspect of life one feels, these are actually our entry points – our passports – to wholeness and unity. The person who models this wholeness is a force of Nature.

Audrey Davis drew. Molly Hartwell sang. Fortress Press holds the copyright for any use of my Tao Te Ching translation. And without you, where WOULD we be? Thank you for your attendance in this class on Taoism.

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

Marc Mullinax