Mind the Dao https://mindthedao.com Being mindful of The Way Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:09:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 63115409 On the Wisdom of Knife Wielding https://mindthedao.com/on-the-wisdom-of-knife-wielding/ https://mindthedao.com/on-the-wisdom-of-knife-wielding/?noamp=mobile#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2014 19:45:26 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=223 Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, & free themselves from the fools. The master takes a knife and butters her toast; she creates no attachments to fools, or the wise. The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it […]

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/on-the-wisdom-of-knife-wielding/feed/ 3 223 Awakening with Doris Lessing https://mindthedao.com/awakening-with-doris-lessing/ https://mindthedao.com/awakening-with-doris-lessing/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 25 May 2014 19:26:01 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=188 Why have you done this to me? Jane Mooney wrote to Doris Lessing after reading Shikasta, a science fiction novel with spiritual overtones and themes. Mooney would later say, Shikasta had the most astonishing effect on me. I just thought, “That’s it now. Everything is different. I don’t know how […]

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/awakening-with-doris-lessing/feed/ 0 188 Darkness, Light and Forgiving. https://mindthedao.com/darkness-light-and-forgiving/ https://mindthedao.com/darkness-light-and-forgiving/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 23 May 2014 15:57:15 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=184 Until I have discovered my own darkness, I do not know myself. Until I have forgiven that darkness, I cannot fully express my light.

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/darkness-light-and-forgiving/feed/ 0 184 Let go or be dragged https://mindthedao.com/let-go-or-be-dragged/ https://mindthedao.com/let-go-or-be-dragged/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:39:45 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=166 I expected tonight to be a difficult sleep. Unfortunately, I was not disappointed in that expectation. Yesterday I made a mistake at work. A bad one. Nothing that couldn’t be repaired, but the repair took time and put an entire film production on hold while that repair was made. A […]

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/let-go-or-be-dragged/feed/ 0 166 Weapons are the tools of violence https://mindthedao.com/weapons-are-the-tools-of-violence/ https://mindthedao.com/weapons-are-the-tools-of-violence/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 26 Apr 2014 10:49:05 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=159 Meditations on Two Photographs The obscenity of war has many faces: Some face down and dead in awful places. Some, thumbs up and beaming like a boy In some dark death machine posed like a toy. Yet in disparity the ugly link Between the grin of power and the stink; […]

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/weapons-are-the-tools-of-violence/feed/ 0 159 Mind the Unconscious https://mindthedao.com/mind-the-unconscious/ https://mindthedao.com/mind-the-unconscious/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 08 Apr 2014 05:00:54 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=152 Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ~ Carl Jung This insight alone, ultimately, is what Laozi wrote 81 chapters about in his Dao de Jing. Except that Laozi wouldn’t quite mean ‘know the unconscious’ the way we think about […]

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/mind-the-unconscious/feed/ 0 152 Karma is a bitch, but only when I am. https://mindthedao.com/karma-is-a-bitch-but-only-when-i-am/ https://mindthedao.com/karma-is-a-bitch-but-only-when-i-am/?noamp=mobile#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:32:33 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=148 Cute, and a very common and popular thought, but… Karma doesn’t discriminate, unfortunately. Karma isn’t a mechanism for making the world right for me by punishing others. Wishing ill on others, even those I might feel richly deserve it for wronging me, has a tendency to draw Karma’s attention. When […]

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/karma-is-a-bitch-but-only-when-i-am/feed/ 2 148 Naming is the origin of all particular things. https://mindthedao.com/naming-is-the-origin-of-all-particular-things/ https://mindthedao.com/naming-is-the-origin-of-all-particular-things/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:00:38 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=141 When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after […]

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/naming-is-the-origin-of-all-particular-things/feed/ 0 141 Call it fate, then laugh at it https://mindthedao.com/call-it-fate-and-then-laugh-at-it/ https://mindthedao.com/call-it-fate-and-then-laugh-at-it/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:30:55 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=106 Call it fate, God, the universe or guardian angels … I think Gregory David Roberts has a pretty good feel for whatever guides my spirit through this grand human experience. Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these […]

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]]> https://mindthedao.com/call-it-fate-and-then-laugh-at-it/feed/ 0 106 Meditation provides insights Google cannot. https://mindthedao.com/meditation-provides-insights-google-cannot/ https://mindthedao.com/meditation-provides-insights-google-cannot/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:47:15 +0000 http://mindthedao.com/?p=95 Mmmmm… Yes, Google can’t answer all my questions. Actually, it can’t answer any of the most important ones. For these I must look within. Rather, no, I must listen within. I don’t mean listen to my mind, nor look into it. I wrote once, with uncanny insight, “Your body knows […]

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