Bonus Episode 03: “The Tao te Ching we almost never knew”

We pause every 10 verses to enrich and provide more info than one may find in Tao te Ching text itself. More history, more practices, more background.

This episode covers the kind of embarrassing dilemma we in the West have: Our 100+ versions of Tao te Ching in English are separated from Taoism as it has been generated and practiced by actual Taoists in Taoism's home: China.

Thus, this episode makes a plea for us to become more educated and conversant about an ENTIRE culture, history, and tradition that gave us this one sliver of Taoism - this Tao te Ching text. If you know only Tao te Ching but not Taoism itself as a living culture, this episode introduces Taoism's practices.

I make reference in the episode to (1) my "spiritual terrorism" blog, when Japan weaponized a Taoist practice (http://allkoreaconsidered.blogspot.com/2017/07/spiritual-terrorism.html) and (2) and to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism-religion/)

May your days begin in peace, and become practices with which you weave radical hope, for you, and your communities.

Marc Mullinax - mmullinax@mhu.edu