Tao Te Ching

The Ideal Is Not The Real

The rational-purposeful mind is a ‘blocker’, not an opener (or facilitator). It shuts doors rather than opening them (which is what it implicitly claims to do). The rational-purposeful mind blocks everything that doesn’t fit into its format, anything that doesn’t agree with its taken-for-granted picture…

In the Flow

To say that ‘everything just is what it is’ tends to sound rather vague, rather wishy-washy. It tends to sound emptily portentious. It doesn’t sound like we’re saying anything really. Of course everything is what it is! So what, we might ask. Where does that…