A Musing Taoist

Look, and it can't be seen. Listen, and it can't be heard. Reach, and it can't be grasped. Not as a separate entity, anyway... A...

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. Both hope and fear involve resistance, and it's difficult to have one wit...

The five colours make our eyes blind the five tones make our ears deaf the five flavours make our mouths numb riding and hunting make our mi...

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness...

Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness? Can you let your body become supple as a newborn child's? ...

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Know when enough is enough. Even a useful actio...

The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it...