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Looking For A Miracle?

Mar 5, 2010 2:08pm

"When I scratch my car, it doesn't heal ..." ~ * ~ I'm participating this weekend in a qigong training with Eva Wong -- with the intention of deepening my appreciation of this amazing human "vehicle" -- and the no-thing "something" experiencing itself through it.Looking For A Miracle? originally appeared on About.com...

Comparison Mind, Branding Tao & The Value Of Nothing

Mar 4, 2010 5:15am

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret. This passage, from verse 27 of the Daode Jing (translated by Stephen Mitchell), illuminates Taoism's remedy for...

Spring In The Air

Mar 2, 2010 1:11am

Here in Colorado, March is the month with the highest average snowfall - so we'll almost certainly be seeing at least a couple blizzards, in coming weeks. Nevertheless, there's spring in the air ... the scent and feeling of the doyo - the transition between seasons, with all its...

Being Tea

Mar 1, 2010 3:27am

In this lovely 30-minute video clip, Tibetan lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche touches on a number of issues that are just as relevant to us as Taoist practitioners as they are to students of Buddha Dharma. He is addressing Sogyal Rinpoche's shedra (a Tibetan "college") students, at least some of...

... the heart's pivot

Feb 27, 2010 2:14pm

Wishing you great enjoyment of this month's full moon .... so wonderful to sit in its light, alone or with a friend .... Sitting alone in peace Before these cliffs The full moon is Heaven's beacon The ten-thousand things Are all reflections The moon originally Has no light Wide open The spirit of itself is pure Hold fast to the void Realize...

Refusing The Operation

Feb 25, 2010 2:23am

Monet Refuses The Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges...

Seeing: The Encore

Feb 24, 2010 10:43am

In Seeing: A Play In Three Acts, I presented western scientific, yogic and artistic responses to the question "what is seeing?" As an addition to this conversation, consider - via Ted Norretranders' The User Illusion - that our brain receives, through our primary sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin),...

The Empty Yet Inexhaustible Source Of Everything

Feb 22, 2010 3:24am

I've been exploring English versions of verse four of the Daode Jing, amazed as always by the immense and at times baffling variety in the translations. Just one example: the word "Tao" - which most translators simply leave untranslated - appears also as "Path" or "Way" - both of...

Quantum Mind

Feb 19, 2010 7:18pm

Physicist John Hagelin on various levels of thought - from conceptual to quantum and beyond - as expounded in the Vedas. [Full talk here.] Ideas on how this might be mapped out with Taoist categories? * Quantum Mind originally appeared on About.com Taoism on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at 03:18:57.Permalink |...

Nexus

Feb 19, 2010 2:43am

Three coins to cast the I Ching. Outside a silver hawk lifts from its tree. * "Beyond there lie monsters," say the monsters. A kind of pattern that I've noticed, over the years, in my practice, is this: A period of gradual deepening or expansion which then comes to a place of...