Honoring the Passing of Wendell Berry
Photo by Dan Carraco, Via Poetry Foundation Wendell Berry has died at age 92. I notice the different headlines, each giving a different descriptive phrase about [...]
Paying Attention?
Paying Attention? Boring I may be, but not bored, for that so-called vacant stare you think you see is really an acute awareness of [...]
Listening Presence
In the Colorado mountains this summer, I again deepen my long-time practice of what I call “listening presence.” Before arriving here, [...]
Self So, Lesson Three, Taoism- An Online Course
The Chinese ideogram that stands for the Tao is translated in many ways. Tzu-Jan, for example, stands for the Tao in its non-active form and can be translated as “Self [...]
Everything is Change, Lesson Four, Taoism-An Online Course
Taoism speaks of the Great Tao. Tao is not, we are told, a “being” but “a way of being.” It is not a noun but [...]
Balancing the Opposites, Lesson Five, Taoism-An Online Course
The ancient Taoist sages loved to be out in nature, contemplating the ways of the natural world. As a result, they came to see that [...]
Rationality, Irrationality, and Wholeness, Lesson Six, Taoism-an Online Course
The profound philosophical principles of Taoism are not readily accessible to the rational mind, unless the rational mind is expanded to comprehend and embrace the [...]
Wu Wei, Watercourse Way, Lesson Seven, Taoism-an Online Course
How can we be true to ourselves in the midst of change, our own change and the changes in the world around us? For [...]
Course Conclusion, Taoism, An Online Course
“Take the Watercourse Way,” we are admonished. Be “Self-So,” spontaneously exercising our Te. “But how, we may ask, can we achieve this easiness, this light-heartedness, this effectiveness? [...]
Translations of Sacred Chants
Because we more and more are committed to being multicultural in our respect for and participation in the sacred in every tradition, we are using [...]
