Words of Taoism – a Taoist podcast

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Lao Tzu describes five small portraits: a walker, a speaker, someone counting, someone closing a door, someone tying a knot.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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The Way is great, heaven is great, earth is great, and the human being also is great.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

I’m glad you’re here.

Today’s chapter is about that hidden weight, the part of a life that stays low and calm so that the rest of it is free to move.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Today, Lao Tzu turns shows us what happens when we strain, and he does it with images drawn straight from the body.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Today's chapter is Lao Tzu's clearest teaching on this hidden power, and he opens it with a string of paradoxes that sound, at first, like they cannot possibly be true.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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In today’s episode, Lao Tzu steps back from that intimate voice and turns to look at the source he was revering, and tries to describe what the source actually is.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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In today’s episode, Lao Tzu describes himself as out of step with the world, as someone who doesn't fit, and there is a thread of melancholy running through his words that can catch us off guard.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Lao Tzu loved the image of Undyed Silk, and he reached for it whenever he needed to describe what a human being looks like in their most essential state, not before virtue exactly, but before the ornaments of virtue, before we learned to perform ourselves for others.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

I’m really glad you’re here again.

Today's chapter is short. Only four lines. But it is one of the most honest passages in the entire Tao Te Ching, and perhaps one of the most uncomfortable. So before we enter it, let yourself arrive without armor.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Today, we’ll explore the chapter 16 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu teaches about returning to the root, the constancy at the heart of all cycles.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

I’m really glad you’re here again.

Today, we’ll explore the chapter 15 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu turns from the mystery itself to the people who lived close to it. He paints portraits, not of the Tao, but of those who practiced it. And what he describes surprises us.

Because the men and women who walked with the Tao did not look brilliant or confident or triumphant. They looked hesitant. They looked rough. They looked like muddy water.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

I’m really glad you’re here again.

Today, we’ll explore the chapter 14 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu turns his gaze toward what cannot be seen, and observes that it might be more present than anything we can perceive.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Today, we’ll explore the chapter 13 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu explores our hunger for recognition.

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Today, we’ll explore the chapter 12 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu explores the sense of our senses.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

It’s been a little while: the year turned, the days folded into each other, celebrations passed, silences too.And perhaps, like me, you’ve been living and not always reflecting, not always listening, just moving along with what was asked of you.

I’m really glad you’re here again.

Today, we’ll explore the shortest chapter of the Tao Te Ching: Chapter 11, with the notion of emptiness at its core .

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 10 of the Tao Te Ching where we discover our fragmented nature.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 9 of the Tao Te Ching where Lao Tzu warns about excess and reminds us to remember our natural limits.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 8 of the Tao Te Ching where Lao Tzu praises the parable of water.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 7 of the Tao Te Ching where Lao Tzu talks about putting yourself last.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 6 of the Tao Te Ching where Lao Tzu write about the mysterious valley spirit…

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 5 of the Tao Te Ching where Lao Tzu begins to touch the concept of Wu Wei.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 4 of the Tao Te Ching, where are facing a visible paradox: How can something empty be full?

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 3 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu reveals how our desire for recognition and competition creates unnecessary suffering.

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With gratitude.

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Welcome back to the Tao Te Ching podcast !

Today, we’ll explore Chapter 2 of the Tao Te Ching where Lao Tzu explains the fundamental interplay of opposites and the principle of natural balance.

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I am so excited to share with you my new podcast ! This podcast is especially for those who wish to deepen their understanding of Taoist wisdom.

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Each chapter will be explored with care, both in its depth and in its practical meaning, so that the Tao may quietly emerge in your life.

As a reminder, episodes for subscribers will start today, Free episodes will be released later with a delay on Spotify and Substack.

As we enter this renewal season at the year’s end, it feels important to give something back in return.

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Through a simple story and a few Taoist practices, we’ll explore how to slow down, breathe, and truly come home to the present moment.

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In this episode, we turn to the wisdom of inner seasons.

Like nature, our own lives move through cycles of creativity, abundance, reflection, and stillness.

To ignore these rhythms is to live against our nature; to honor them is to rediscover harmony with time itself.

Inspired by Taoist teachings, this meditation invites you to slow down, to observe without judgment, and to inhabit your days as a tree inhabits its season.

With Gratitude,

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In this opening episode of the Tao Te Ching Podcast, we step into the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching. Through reflection, meditation, and practice, you’ll be invited to rest in the space between words and experience the living truth Lao Tzu points to in each of the 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching.

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