Podcast Episodes

Tao Te Ching Verse 26 – Be Still and Know!

If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.
— Stephen M…

2 years, 2 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 25 – The Difference Between WEllness and Illness is WE instead of I

Before the Tao discussion, we discussed the tools we use to stay sober all year round, and especially during the holidays.

In life, I am always see…

2 years, 2 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 24 – The Trap of Self-Promotion

He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures. If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

— Stephen Mitchell,…

2 years, 3 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 23 – Opening up, Accepting Loss

If you open yourself to loss,

you are at one with loss

and you can accept it completely.

Open yourself to the Tao,

then trust your natural re…

2 years, 3 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 22 – Being Lived by the Tao

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by th…

2 years, 3 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 21 – The Trap of Desire!

Verse 21 gives us three tools to use in daily life;

1. Stop clinging to ideas.
2. Letting it happen rather than manipulation and control.
3. Lookin…

2 years, 3 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 20 – Stop Thinking and End Your Problems!

Much of my problems in life are self-inflicted. I try to control many things that I am incapable of controlling. This "living letting go" is a very …

2 years, 3 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 19 – Living Without Rules!

Living in the way can bring about a move from a fear-based existence toward a Love-based reality that makes rules a place to hide rather than flouri…

2 years, 3 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 18 – Living Above the Pendulum!

Is it possible to live a life of Compassion, which lifts us above criticism and faultfinding?

When the greatness of the Tao is present, action aris…

2 years, 3 months ago

Tao Te Ching Verse 17 – The Spiral Downward!

To know Tao alone, without a trace of your own existence, is the highest. Next comes loving and praising it, then fearing it, then despising it.
— Jo…

2 years, 4 months ago