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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 29 (Unpublished): Some reach for the powerful place Without concern for the whole.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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 22 (Unpublished): Be broken to be whole.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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 12 (Unpublished): Blindness for the color, when too many run together.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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 (Unpublished): Spokes unite at the center of a wheel.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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 10 (Unpublished): Do you travel in body, spirit, and soul, without losing their unity?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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9 (Unpublished): Brim-fill the teacup, it spills.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” [...]
Just Tao It Series Introduction, Part I The Tao Te Ching is roughly 2,500 years old. For most of that time it has kept reappearing in the hands of people who feel like something important is being missed — something already present in experience, yet difficult to explain. Written during a [...]