Why We Argue
Why do couples argue about the smallest things when the argument is rarely about the thing itself?In this episode of The Modern Taoist, Kit Mann explores the Taoist view of relationships, conflict, eg...
6 Loka 45min
The Tao Te Now - Chapter 4
The Tao Te Now — Chapter 4Chapter 4 is eight lines. The shortest chapter yet. And in those eight lines, Lao Tzu makes three of the most striking observations in the entire text.The Tao is like a well ...
4 Loka 21min
Weekend Check In: Time to Meditate
Sit DownMost people who find Taoism do so through the ideas. The philosophy resonates. The way of looking at things shifts. And then they go back to their lives without ever sitting down to do the one...
2 Loka 13min
Navigating Bad News
Navigating Bad NewsBad news does not wait for a good time. It arrives in grocery stores and parking lots and at the dinner table in the middle of an otherwise ordinary Tuesday. And the world rearrange...
29 Syys 46min
The Tao Te Now - Chapter 3
The Tao Te Now — Chapter 3Chapter 3 is fifteen lines. Lao Tzu covers overvaluing, distrust, installed ambition, the confusion that arrives when certainty collapses, and wu wei. In that order. Without ...
27 Syys 26min
Weekend Check-In: Changes Are Coming
You Knew This Was ComingChange arrived this week for someone listening to this. It always does. And the response, almost universally, is some form of: I never saw that coming.In this weekend check-in,...
25 Syys 14min
You Are Not Required To Be Pure
You Are Not Required to Be PureSomeone looked across a table recently and said: I thought you were supposed to be some kind of guru or something.That sentence is the whole of this episode.There is a p...
22 Syys 47min
Tao Te Now - Chapter 2
The Tao Te Now — Chapter 2Chapter 2 follows immediately from where Chapter 1 left off, and it wastes no time.The moment you decide what is beautiful, something else becomes ugly. The moment you decide...
20 Syys 27min
