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LI Lisa Sims

The Soul, Six—The Choice, Lao Tzu, 6/8/2021

“…the road of natural love ends with the perfection of... the human condition.”

Aug 17, 2026 · 24 min read · 1 claps #soul #spirituality #lao-tzu

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TA Takeshi Kitagawa · Philosophy Today

How Shinto Finds the Sacred in Ordinary Things

What a mountain with no gods and a god with no face taught me about the way things actually are

Jul 27, 2026 · 10 min read · 166 claps paywalled #lao-tzu #shinto #japanese-philosophy

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DR Dr. Q’s Geometric Decoder Log

Tao and Symmetry: Where Modern Physics Meets Laozi at the Silent Origin of the Universe

Bridge of Wisdom (Part 1)

Jul 10, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #lao-zi #tao-te-ching #physics

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KE Kenneth Leong

Rethinking the First Chapter of the Tao Te Ching: Beyond Mysticism Toward Process and Relationship

The opening chapter of the Tao Te Ching is perhaps the most frequently quoted — and most frequently misunderstood — passage in all of…

Jul 03, 2026 · 4 min read · 76 claps paywalled #tao-te-ching #xuan #reification

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TA Takeshi Kitagawa · ILLUMINATION

What Is Taoism? Lao Tzu’s Philosophy and Why It Still Matters Today

Lao Tzu Wrote This 2,500 Years Ago — and He Was Talking About Us

Jun 22, 2026 · 7 min read · 187 claps paywalled #lao-tzu #taoism #tao-te-ching

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DE Dennis Hambeukers · Tao Notebook

Rick Rubin and the Tao — The Sage Who Does Nothing

There is a line in the Tao Te Ching that stops me every time I read it.

Jun 06, 2026 · 2 min read · 38 claps #taoism #tao #tao-te-ching

KE Kenneth Leong

The Great Xiàng Has No Form

Among the many elusive terms in the Tao Te Ching, few are as rich and multilayered as 象 (xiang). It is often translated as “image,”…

May 26, 2026 · 6 min read · 65 claps paywalled #great-xiang #appearance-versus-reality #tao-te-ching

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KE Kenneth Leong

From Symbol to Philosophy: The Hidden World of the I Ching

Preface

May 17, 2026 · 7 min read · 139 claps paywalled #i-ching #tao-te-ching #cyclicality

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JA Javier Alejandro Romero Castillo

Don’t Look Away: Your Trail Betrays You

What a Roman slave, the Tao, and a life of mistakes taught me about brutal honesty

May 16, 2026 · 5 min read · 11 claps #memento-mori #tao-te-ching #personal-training

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KE Kenneth Leong

Chapter 42 and the Birth of Two: Relativity, Complementarity, and the Naturalistic Vision of…

The Problem of Reading Chapter 42 Supernaturally

May 11, 2026 · 6 min read · 33 claps paywalled #yin-and-yang #complementarity #relativity

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RO Rod MacIver

A quiet book for a noisy time / The Tao Te Ching Journal, now available for pre-order

As I have worked on this journal over the last year, it has amazed me how often the Tao has suggested a different course than the one I had…

May 06, 2026 · 2 min read · 50 claps #taoism #the-taoist-online #tao

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RO Rod MacIver

What the Current Knows

Some days the river carries you. Some days you push against it and blame life.

May 06, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #taoism #the-taoist-online #tao

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RO Rod MacIver

The Tao Te Ching Journal is almost ready to publish

The reality is that this work — the Tao Te Ching Journal, this Substack, Zen Mountain Journal — could not exist without the support of…

May 06, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #taoism #the-taoist-online #tao

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RO Rod MacIver

What the Quiet Ones Know

To know that you do not know is the highest knowledge. To think you know when you don’t is more common.

May 06, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #taoism #the-taoist-online #tao

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AL Alan Lew · New Earth Consciousness

“The Five Colors Blind the Eye” — chapter 12 of the ‘Tao Te Ching’

Exploring three versions of an ancient Chinese text.

Apr 11, 2026 · 4 min read · 101 claps paywalled #tao-te-ching #taoism #nonduality

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GU GUPAVA

子宫主权是神圣女性意识的源头 Womb sovereignty is the root of sacred feminine consciousness.

其實，女神們一直都在指引著我們，只是她們的聲音被太多噪音所覆蓋。

Feb 08, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #spirituality #womb #femininity

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RO Rod MacIver

Long after we’re gone, peace remains.

The deep peace  Found on mountaintops  As night arrives  Another in the endless cycle  Of dark and light.  Long before I came here to sit…

Dec 13, 2025 · 0 min read · 0 claps #polis #taoism #tao-te-ching

KE Kenneth Leong

The Nameless and the Named: A Commentary on Tao Te Ching, Chapter One

The Nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the Mother of the Ten Thousand Things.  — Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1

Oct 05, 2025 · 5 min read · 2 claps paywalled #the-nameless #tao-te-ching #complementarity

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DI Dimension Zero

Tao Te Ching: The Black Book Edition (Chapters 16–20)

with Yin-Yang Universe Mapping & Awakened Decoding

Sep 23, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #tao-te-ching #dark-taoism #esoteric-philosophy

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DI Dimension Zero

Decoding the Tao Te Ching (Verses 31–37): A Metaphysical Analysis

Chapter 31

Jun 24, 2025 · 6 min read · 0 claps #tao-te-ching #dark-taoism #esoteric-philosophy

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DI Dimension Zero

Decoding the Tao Te Ching (Verses 26–30): A Metaphysical Analysis

26. Gravity Anchors the Self

Jun 13, 2025 · 4 min read · 1 claps #tao-te-ching #dark-taoism #esoteric-philosophy

KE Kenneth Leong

The Nameless and the Named

A friend recently asked me a question about two lines in the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching. It reads:

May 12, 2020 · 2 min read · 2 claps paywalled #the-nameless #the-named #tao-te-ching