See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 (Unpublished): Spokes unite at the center of a wheel. But the [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 10 (Unpublished): Do you travel in body, spirit, and soul, without losing their unity? Are you as tender in [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9 (Unpublished): Brim-fill the teacup, it spills. Sharpen incessantly, the edge dulls. Overfill the house with possessions, guarding becomes [...]
Tonight, in my Radical Hope community of practice, we explored the Law of Least Effort — showing up across Taoism (Wu Wei), physics (Least Action), and psychology (Zipf’s Principle). I kept noticing how clearly this connects to patterns I see every day in leaders and organizations. In fact, it would have been useful just hours earlier [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE From my Cliff’sNOTES interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1 (Unpublished). You will see first in this Chapter and later throughout the series, that I use “It” [...]
Author Disclaimer: If “It” Feels Vague, We're On the Right Track Just Tao It Series Introduction, Part I If you’re coming into the Tao Te Ching for the first time, there’s usually a moment—sometimes early, sometimes a few chapters in—where you realize you’re not going to get a clean definition of [...]
See Patterns And Hold Mystery. Just Tao It is my attempt to put words to a thread that’s been running through my life for almost forty years. I stumbled into the Tao Te Ching in 1987, at a time when certainty felt thin and my inherited faith tradition felt…let’s say “under [...]
I’m not the brightest tool in the deck, but I know one thing…when something that’s supposed to help us starts to cause a new problem, it’s probably because we didn’t see there was a Both/And need -- for both a Value AND its interdependent Value partner. I’m part of a small online community of practice [...]
I’ve been struck by the image of Buddhist monks walking—slowly, deliberately, and quietly—across the distances in a world that’s all about the hurry-up, the take sides, and the win. They’re not trying to convince anyone of anything. They’re not carrying signs. They’re not shouting slogans. They’re just walking, step after step, holding their own center [...]
I’m not the sharpest tool in the deck, but I know this much: when people at work start talking about pendulums swinging and driving from one ditch to the other, something important is trying to get our attention. You hear it all the time. “We’ve overcorrected.” “Now we’ve gone too far the other way.” “This [...]