Journey with me down the path of Chapter 2 of Tao Te Ching and how my first girlfriend taught me the same lesson. Action without acting, creation without owning, accomplishing without controlling. Read the article

 Join me as I revisit one of the first articles I published online. My journey with Christianity is long and spans many articles, but this first one was the hardest I've ever written. It involves being ostracized, persecuted by church memb...

I retell the story of my special needs son and the time I had to take his principal and teachers to task in order to fight for his needs. You can read the article

In this new season, I'll be reading many of my articles. First, I read Chapter 38 of Tao Te Ching and analyzed its meaning. What is a good person? Can you even be good? What is good, anyway? All these questions and more are answered! 

Welcome to another episode of The Taoist Corner Podcast. Today, rather than continue our work through 365 Tao by Ding Ming-Dao, I’ll interview writer Heidi Pyper, who recently won The Taoist Online’s holiday writing contest!Heidi Pyper's...

Welcome to episode 19 of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded January 28th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s book 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 103, Reciprocity, through 107, Withdrawl. Each episode is st...

Welcome to episode 17 of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded January 14th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 97 through 102. We did it! We reached 100 chapters!Each episode is str...

Welcome to episode 17 of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded January 14th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 90 through 96. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM cen...

Welcome to episode 16 of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded January 7th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 84 through 89. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM cent...

Welcome to episode 15 of my Taoism Lessons series and the last of 2023! Recorded December 31st, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 79 through 84. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube ...

Welcome to episode 14 of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded December 17th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 72 through 78. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM ce...

Welcome to episode 13 of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded December 10th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 66 through 71. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM ce...

Welcome to episode nine of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded December 3, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 60 through 65. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM cen...

Welcome to episode nine of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded November 26th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 54 through 59. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM ...

Welcome to episode ten! Recorded November 19th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 48 through 54. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM central time. Please join me ...

Welcome to episode nine of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded November 5th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 42 through 46. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM c...

Welcome to episode eight of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded on Sunday, Oct 29, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I covered chapters 37 Discord (reviewed from the week prior) through 41 Resolution. Each epis...

Welcome to episode seven of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded on Sunday, Oct 22, we continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I covered chapters 32 Ubiquity through 37 Discord. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube ...

Welcome to episode six of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded October 15, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 25 through 31. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM cent...

This is the episode with the just-okay audio, and I apologize. My mic was set wrong during the stream, so it sometimes cuts off the end and beginning of my sentences. I’ve allowed Substack to generate a transcript, hoping you can still enjoy it...

Join me as I work through 365 Tao by Deng Ming-Dao to teach the lessons of Taoism. This was episode 4, which was live-streamed on YouTube. Feel free to join me each week! Brough...

Welcome to episode three of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded September 24th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 8 through 14. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM...

Welcome to episode two of my Taoism Lessons series. Recorded September 10th, 2023, I continue to work through Ding Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao. In this episode, I cover chapters 4 through 7. Each episode is streamed live on YouTube on Sundays at 9 AM ce...