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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 29 (Unpublished): Some reach for the powerful place Without concern for the whole. Some climb to the highest space [...]
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 27 (Unpblished): Without forcing, It flows. Travelers move with It, and the journey unfolds. Artists create, and the work [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 22 (Unpublished): Be broken to be whole. Be empty to be full. Be small to be great. Be bent [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 12 (Unpublished): Blindness for the color, when too many run together. Deafness for the notes, when too many overtake [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 (Unpublished): Spokes unite at the center of a wheel.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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 10 (Unpublished): Do you travel in body, spirit, and soul, without losing their unity?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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9 (Unpublished): Brim-fill the teacup, it spills.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 [...]