Tag Archive | Eastern Philosophy

Tao Verse 64 Interpretation by Stephen Mitchell

Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist. The giant pine tree grows from a tiny sprout. The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe…

Strangers Live Inside

The early morning possess supernatural powers. I absorbed the darkness in the winter and spread the sunlight in spring. How does one find himself in himself? How do you begin a journey on a road that has ended? I love being in a transit state of nothingness…where I walk in silence and stillness. I would struggle to explain the concept and thus I mumble incomprehensible with text…

From the Buddha’s Dhammapada (ByronKatie.com)

    From the Buddha’s Dhammapada (ByronKatie.com). (freely translated by Stephen Mitchell) Mind creates the world; what you see arises with your thoughts. If you speak and act with a confused mind, trouble will follow you as certainly as a cart follows the ox that pulls it. Mind creates the world; what you see arises with your [...]

Taoism & Higher Learning

I dislike higher learning, yes at this present moment, it’s unsettling. Higher education is an organization for academic achievement of advanced thought through research. It also is an environment where all meaningful thinking originated with humans, specifically White men. This essay is not about race but the (perceived) disconnection from Taoism by the author. I have become the unconscionable ringmaster of a circus…

Young Black Males & Prison Incarceration

African American male adolescents are 46 times more likely to be sent to a juvenile detention facility than Caucasian adolescents.

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