The Book I Gave Away A few days ago, my partner, Tracy, and I were delayed on our flight home from a short vacation. We ended up at an airport restaurant with another traveler from the same flight. All three of us were killing time. Delay can create its own kind of opening. With nowhere else [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 39 (Unpublished): Hold It, Air clear. Sky sapphire. Water pure. Oceans clean. Earth green. The living ever-existing, [...]
A colleague from the Polarity Thinking community recently sent me a Fox News opinion piece with a simple note attached: “Thought you’d find this interesting.” I did. I’ve had this conversation before. Many times. The article could have come just as easily from several of my fraternity brothers from my undergraduate years at Lenoir-Rhyne University 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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapters 77 (Unpublished): It is like the bending bow. As bottom ascends, The top moves low. Yet we [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 62 (Unpublished): It is the infinite source, for good souls to find treasure, for those who are [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 80 (Unpublished): The grand country, Feels tiny. Weapons are kept. Unused. Food Satisfies. Clothing Suffices. Homes Hold [...]
I have been living inside an infinity symbol for years without fully noticing it. It sits at the center of the Cliff'sNOTES logo — the loop Barry Johnson and the Polarity Thinking community have used for decades to depict two interdependent poles, circling each other endlessly, neither one ever finally winning. I have drawn that loop [...]
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 47 (Unpublished): Without passing through an exit, you can know It. Without looking through a window, you [...]
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 23 (Unpublished): Nature doesn’t linger. The watcher and listener Sees. Fierce winds don’t last. Driving rains soon [...]
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 46: When It flows warhorses pull plows Ignore It Mares deliver foals on battlefields. Look within. Know [...]