Episode 008: Verse 7-Endurance Practices

In this episode, we get simple ... and ethical.

If Heaven and Earth (or Tao) last forever, how do they do it? (Spoiler alert: They live for others, and not for themselves.) Teased out in this verse is the same question for us. How may we endure? The answer is as simple as it may "seem" difficult to practice, but I make the bold assertion that our endurance and living long is no different from Tao's (after all, Tao birthed us, right?). We endure by finding our fulfillment in the filling and fulfillment of others.

This podcast is an original labor of love, designed, written, and co-produced by many, whose central idea is that Tao te Ching is good news for today. Tao still speaks. Thanks to Terri Farless for her voice and question. Audrey Davis is our artist. Molly Hartwell donated her song “Put Your Roots Down”. Fortress Press holds the copyright for quotations from my Tao Te Ching translation.

The poem found near the end of the episode is found here: https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=2613

May your days begin in peace, and become wombs for radical hope.