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ToV 23 – Storm Chasing for Soul Seekers

Ironically I went to write about this chapter a week ago, but the first line: Express yourself, then keep quiet captivated me. Something inside of me just went mmm quiet… and I stuck with that for quite some time.

Good thing too, as I was stormy as hell inside. It had been a rough week. The rest of this chapter pulls from the metaphor of weather, and I spent a lot of time thinking about that.

Be like the forces of nature:
when it blows there is only wind;
when it rains there is only rain;
when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.

So I let my life blow, and boy did it blow. Read More »ToV 23 – Storm Chasing for Soul Seekers

ToV 5 – making friends with your goblins

The Tao doesn’t take sides;
it gives birth to both good and evil.

I’ve been reading my niece fairy stories. As an aside, if you want to make great gobs of cash, find something small girls obsess over (like fairies or ponies or princesses), write a story about it, when it’s a hit write the same frickin’ story over and over again with slight changes to plot and auxiliary characters. It’s basically the young mind version of formulaic trashy romance novels, great to see those neurons mapped early! (sheesh). So, after about the 8th one of these highly predictable stories (okay it probably only took to the second book) I started interjecting some critical thinking amid the plot – trying to explain to a seven year old the use of goblins as a narrative device, and asking why the main characters never seemed to grow or change when several years must have passed with all these stories. My niece just gives me that look (that I seem to get around here a lot) where she’s trying really hard to understand where I’m going with all of this, but really wishes I would just shut up and read the story.Read More »ToV 5 – making friends with your goblins

ToV 2 – no judging!

There’s lots of really juicy stuff in this chapter, but I’m gonna go with the first few lines on this one. Keep it simple – for starters, we’ve got 79 more chapters to embrace the paradoxical weirdness of Taoism.

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

One of the main tenets of Taoism is the principle of just BE-ing. There is no good or bad, things just ARE. …at least until our thinkingthinkingthinking minds get a hold of them, Read More »ToV 2 – no judging!

Adapt or Die

I broke my brain a few weeks ago, a remarkably frightening experience. Now, I’ve had cognitive burnout before, it’s pulled me out of school on many occasions: an inability to study or take the ideas in my head and find words for them. This was nothing like that. My brain suddenly seemed incapable of any kind of complex processingRead More »Adapt or Die