Tao Te Ching

Jul
03
[Video] All Polarization and Binaries Have a Central Point of Origin

[Video] All Polarization and Binaries Have a Central Point of Origin

How do we reconcile polarities like right versus wrong and good versus bad? With so many extreme challenges and divisive
1 min read
May
05
How Do You Navigate Moral Challenges and Decisions in Your Life?

How Do You Navigate Moral Challenges and Decisions in Your Life?

Reflections on the value of studying the Tao Te Ching to get better at questioning everything you think is true.
4 min read
Apr
21
Eclipsing ideology: Exploring the Impermanence of Fixed Beliefs and the Nature of Human Expression

Eclipsing ideology: Exploring the Impermanence of Fixed Beliefs and the Nature of Human Expression

Considering the fluidity of gender identity on the path of recognition and understanding.
5 min read
Apr
14
The Journey of 1,000 Miles Starts with Where You Are Standing

The Journey of 1,000 Miles Starts with Where You Are Standing

How “Queering The Way” came to be the path I was already on.
6 min read
Apr
06
Flexibility and Yielding Are Essential Aspects of Life — Stiffness and Resistance Lead to Decay and Death

Flexibility and Yielding Are Essential Aspects of Life — Stiffness and Resistance Lead to Decay and Death

When we yield to what appears to be blocking our way, we will find a way through.
2 min read
Mar
02
To Understand the Concept of ‘Good,’ We Must Accept the Mutually Arising Polarity of ‘Bad’.

To Understand the Concept of ‘Good,’ We Must Accept the Mutually Arising Polarity of ‘Bad’.

Conscientious humane action requires that we navigate the space in-between what is ‘good and bad’ to minimize harm caused to others by remaining too long at unnatural extremes.
2 min read
Feb
27
What Does It Mean to Be a Virtuous Person and How Is that Different From a Person of Good Character?

What Does It Mean to Be a Virtuous Person and How Is that Different From a Person of Good Character?

We live in a social media age where morality and ethics are demonstrated as virtue-signalling memes or thumbs-up emoticons — often
2 min read
Feb
24
What Is the Distinction Between Values and Virtues? One Leads to Deliberate and Thoughtful Action

What Is the Distinction Between Values and Virtues? One Leads to Deliberate and Thoughtful Action

Practicing the virtues expressed in the Tao Te Ching is not for appearances, recognition, or validation. These are actions that
2 min read
Feb
20
There Is a Space Between the Binary Labels of Male and Female that Connects Us All as Human Beings

There Is a Space Between the Binary Labels of Male and Female that Connects Us All as Human Beings

We are all worthy of dignity and freedom of self-expression. In 2005, I bought my first translation of the Tao
2 min read
Feb
07
Is the Tao Te Ching Still Relevant Today, and Why Would You Care to Read it?

Is the Tao Te Ching Still Relevant Today, and Why Would You Care to Read it?

The Tao Te Ching is implicitly a queer text, one that has been an ethics of the marginalized and the oppressed. Through simple metaphors and observations of nature, the Tao Te Ching offers a powerful virtue ethics philosophy for our common humanity, one that challenges the status quo.
3 min read