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Zen-punk mixtape meditations from iconic Gen X Everyman Lloyd Dobler. Think Ram Dass by way of Rage Against the Machine, filtered through a VHS tape of Say Anything left to melt on the dashboard of American decline. Imagine Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything as a middle-aged dissident: still romantic, still defiant, and thumbing through the Tao Te Ching to turn ancient philosophy into an anti-fascist dharma mixtape for the Trump 2.0 era; on a mission to craft a field guide for late-stage everything.
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The Tao of Christ

Marshall Davis

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The Tao of Christ is a podcast which explores the mystical roots of Christianity, which Jesus called the Kingdom of God, which church historian Evelyn Underhill called the Unitive Life, which Richard Rohr calls the Universal Christ, and which I refer to as Christian nonduality, unitive awareness, or union with God. This is the Tao of Christ.
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In this podcast, we discuss mystical works of literature, primarily Taoist text, and how they relate to alcohol recovery. Taoist Philosophy can be an excellent tool for embracing the idea of a "Higher Power." Nature offers all of the examples necessary for a concept of a source of all life, much different but yet very similar in many ways to more traditional religious thinking. Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching; https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/se ...
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The Primary Texts

The Most Ancient Anamnetic Order of Trikala

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The Primary Texts is a podcast that explores philosophy's essential works completely, carefully, and deeply. Each series takes you through an entire philosophical text - Plato's Republic, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the Bhagavad Gita, Laozi's Tao Te Ching, and more - one chapter or book at a time. We don't skim. We don't summarise. We read the actual words of history's greatest thinkers and explore every angle, every argument, every practical application. Each episode combines scholarly r ...
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Email the podcast: [email protected] Welcome to the Tao Te Ching for Everyday Living. I’m your host, Dan Casas-Murray. This podcast is for the Tao Curious, those looking for a random bit of wisdom once in awhile, or for those who want to dive into this wonderful teaching.I’ve been studying the Tao Te Ching for just short of a year now, and have reconnected with a natural feeling of inner peace and contentment. I don’t hold a doctorate, nor am I qualified to teach anything about the Tao ...
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Additional Eye-Opening Programs @ www.OpenandClear.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Tao Te Ching" Originally by Lao-Tzu - Best Interpreted as "A Book on Purpose" - Reinterpreted by eyes that have experienced beyond the veil of death. Since our host Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne's return from a long deliberate quest to "transcend the world" he brings back inspiring new insights, recognizing this ancient text speaks of the age old questions regarding the purpose of existence, and ...
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Thomas Brill and myself, Brian Parks, meet once a week to discuss the nature of existance and other topics of interest. We figured why not speculate on a specific topic each week just for laughs. Our first one is big. The 81 chapters of the Tao the Ching written approximately 300 or 400 BCE. This week we start with chapter one. We are laypersons with no special training or knowledge giving our first impressions of the 1989 Hendricks translation.
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We're going through all 81 verses of the Tao Te Ching. We're searching that flow that all the masters talk about. We're going for that groove in life where effort is replaced by joy and ease. Does it really exist? Let's find out together! This podcast is David's exploration with friends into the Tao, surrender, flow, and finding a way to love.
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The world is changing. What was stable has become unstuck: mass movements and class conflicts, elite hubris and institutional failure, authoritarianism and a collapse of authority: and everywhere a crisis of meaning. How should one live in this world? In this podcast, I take books I read and ideas I find and try to bring them down to earth, to understand what is happening here and now. I seek lasting principles, not hot takes. Topics include the professional class; critiques of social justic ...
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81 Sayings

Sukhesh Arora

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'The Legend of the Origin of the Tao Te Ching on Lao Tsu's Road into exile' is a short poem by Bertolt Brecht whose protagonist, Lao Tsu attempts to distil his learning down into 81 Sayings. It served as a creative impulse for 81 authors from all over the world who came together after the Covid-19 pandemic to reimagine what these 81 Sayings could have been. In the podcast, Sukhesh Arora speaks to some of the authors who make visible the rigidity in our volatile world, and also make more tang ...
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The Ten Thousand Things

Sam Ellis, Joe Loh and Ali Catramados

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Sometimes deep, often amusing, therapeutic chats touching on philosophy, spirituality, religion, consciousness, culture, music, dating, and life. Join Sam, Joe and Ali as they discuss the 10,000 illusions that make up “reality”. Musical theme by Ehsan Gelsi - Ephemera (Live at Melbourne Town Hall)
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Protect Your Noggin

Stacie and Jeff Mallinson

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The pursuit of happiness amid the ruins of politics and religion. Regular hosts are Stacie Mallinson (death doula and yogini) and Jeff Mallinson (D.Phil., Oxford, historian of philosophy and religion). The couple started the show to help people outfox religious wolves, only to realize that they too were entangled in religious ideas that need deconstructing more radically
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Alpha Parent

Yulia Rafailova, Executive Function Coach

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Alpha parents are confident and outcome independent. They focus on creating a safe, secure, and non-judgmental space for their child to explore, learn, and grow. Alpha's know that in order to teach their child how to navigate the world, they must model the behavior, habits, and skills they want their child to learn.
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Sherrie and Matt share their experience with waking up to what is really going on in this reality. As beginners of the waking conscious movement Sherrie and Matt will share their experiences and steps they took to wake up and manifest a New and Wonderful reality. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matthew-whiteside/support
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Spreading Happiness is a compilation of elegant teachings on conscious living. A blend of inspiration, timeless wisdom, story telling and guided meditations. These teachings are presented by Nithya Shanti, an internationally respected spiritual teacher. He was formerly a Buddhist monk who trained in forest meditation monasteries in South East Asia. He is committed to sharing practical wisdom teachings for happiness and enlightenment with people in a joyful and transformational way. Blending ...
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Us Radio

The Us Radio Crew

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Us Radio is a open forum podcast discussing new topics on our weekly episodes.With a round table discussion between friends we will bring new interesting topics and perspectives to light.Feel free to connect with us across all our social media and independent siteFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/UsRadio001/Independent Site: usradio001.wordpress.com
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The Mentor Secrets

Hades X Archived

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*Due to commitments requiring my attention, This channel is now in temporary hiatus... Thank you for your support. You can check out these active channels. See latest hiatus message. Thanks. This podcast is a personal accountability about mindset. I just want to podcast and learn from people... The goal is to learn, apply, improve, enjoy the process, and repeat. This is a fairly new podcast. I wonder what this podcast will look like 5 Years from now, or maybe 10 years from now, or 20 years f ...
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These mystical and practical discussions are explorations of spirituality and its relation to religion and psychology, with questions always. Beyond a specific religion or spiritual practice; what do we share, what do we have in common? These talks are a work in progress evolving our rich inner life, including reflections on religious texts, poems, art, and what is common in our human experience enhancing understanding of our relationships: with ourselves, with one another, and with the worl ...
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Lao Tzu explains how to cook a small fish and govern a great nation. A discussion of how the Tao Te Ching has been seen differently over the ages, due to different emphases throughout the commentary traditions. Regardless of whether one assumes that the ghosts of our ancestors and the demons of our human nature are literal or figurative (or somewhe…
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Part 2 of 'Echoes of the Tao, Seeking Truth Across Traditions,' starts with 'what does it mean to Serve and Love God (or Tao)? God (Tao) says, 'be what I made you to be!' God (Tao) is found in relationship. Does God want us to know Him (or ourselves) most intimately? Dependent Co-arising? 'Simultaneously, I and all beings attain the Way' (Awaken to…
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Sam and Joe discuss Verse 4 of the Tao Te Ching: The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, Like an abyss! It seems to be the origin of all things. It dulls the sharpness, Unties the knots, Dims the light, Becomes one with the dust. Deeply hidden, as if it only might exist. I do not know whose child it is. It seems to precede the ancestor of all.…
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"While he [The man of Tao] does not follow the crowd. He won't complain of those who do." — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 91 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 You can download a f…
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Support The Tao of Lloyd on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/taooflloyd/membership In Chapter 17 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler unpacks the Tao Te Ching’s most unsettling insight about leadership: the best leaders are barely noticed—and the worst are despised. The episode opens with Lloyd still spiritually bruised from last week’s road-rage fail…
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Lloyd Dobler returns with a confession: he lost a street-level spiritual battle at a red light and ended up in a Wes Anderson–directed Fast & Furious showdown with a MAGA pickup truck. A near death experience. A sorta guided meditation for anyone who’s ever tried to stay calm behind the wheel and failed beautifully. Send a text. Ask a question & I …
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How did the most powerful man in the ancient world begin his private journal? Adam guides us through Book One of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, where the philosopher-emperor catalogues everyone who shaped him. Before examining a single Stoic doctrine, before wrestling with death or duty, Marcus pauses to acknowledge seventeen debts: to his grandfat…
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In this opening episode of The Primary Texts, Adam introduces our season-long journey through Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the private philosophical journal of Rome's philosopher-emperor. We meet Marcus the man: reluctant ruler who spent his reign at war, devoted student who found Stoicism through a former slave's teachings, and father who buried…
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This week, we explored a question posed to us: "How do I surrender to alcohol?" 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 You can download a free PDF of the most current version of Powerless But Not H…
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When did you last actually read a philosophical text instead of reading about it? The Primary Texts offers what no other philosophy podcast provides: complete, exhaustive engagement with foundational works. Not summaries. Not overviews. Not famous quotes stripped of context. We read eighty percent or more of every chapter aloud, exploring how argum…
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Subscribe free: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloyd Monthly supporters get the bonus universe: https://www.patreon.com/taooflloyd/membership Lloyd aims the Tao Te Ching at Trumplandia like a spiritual weather report for a country vibrating itself into madness. Using Chapter 15, he explores three versions of where he comes from: Seattle, the Big Bang…
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Drawing from Tao Te Ching 59, we critique the idea that cultures have a fixed life span. Surveying the longevity of various societies from the Indigenous Australians to the end of Imperial China in the twentieth century, we suggest that Lao Tzu was right that a deeply rooted, maternal, nurturing society that is adaptable and respects its natural re…
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Subscribe free: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloyd | Monthly supporters get the bonus universe: https://www.patreon.com/taooflloyd/membership Chapter 14 of The Tao of Lloyd dives into the fog: prediction culture, political chaos, AI riddling like a digital monk, and the Tao’s reminder that “you can’t know it — but you can be it.” Lloyd unpacks hope…
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In this exploration of the Tao Te Ching and other traditions, the conversation opens to introductions of the five Panelists and a invocation of hope of others to investigate the Tao Te Ching. Bob, Brian, Rich, Henry and Joel share Verse 1 and questions arise: What is Reality? Is the Tao Reality? What is the Tao? What does the term Anti-foundational…
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Lloyd Dobler uses the Tao Te Ching to make sense of a tragedy in Washington DC: a National Guard member killed, another critically wounded, and a political system that turned grief into ammunition before the scene was even cleared. Lloyd traces the scapegoating of Afghan refugees, Trump’s threat to “permanently pause migration from all Third World …
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" The true conqueror is he who is not conquered by the multitude of the small." — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 90 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 You can download a free PDF of…
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Jeff and Stacie discuss Tao Te Ching 58's second half, which says the experts don't even know how history will play out in a certain situation. They share their plan for surviving the economic challenges ahead. Jeff explains the concept of "late stage capitalism." By the way, if you are serious about considering living a different lifestyle, in ter…
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AI acceleration meets sensory overload meets the eerie quiet that appears when you finally silence your notifications. Lloyd uses the Tao Te Ching to navigate machine-learning hype, Gen X dread, and the possibility that enlightenment may just be your brain in airplane mode. A Taoist meditation on clarity in late-stage everything. Send a text. Ask a…
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Jeff and Stacie share what’s been going on in their lives since their last episode. Then they launch into part one of a discussion of TTC 58 and it’s relevance these days. What if libertarians of various stripes banded together to resist authoritarianism and build networks to care for all members of community in need? Protect Your Noggin is a show …
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Lloyd reads the Tao Te Ching while Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus accidentally explains America with a hive mind. Featuring alien RNA, RFK Jr–level confusion, sci-fi absurdity, and a guided meditation on becoming the empty center; a Taoist field guide to individuality and cosmic teamwork. Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episode S…
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"He who moves with the stream of events is called a wise statesman." — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 88 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 You can download a free PDF of the most c…
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A rediscovered 2011 letter from Diane Court kicks off a guided-meditation crisis. Lloyd turns to Chapter 10 to sift through memory, softening, relationships, Gen X nostalgia, and the parts of himself that once believed in things like tenderness and courage. A Taoist deep dive into self-reflection, heartbreak, and emotional archaeology. Send a text.…
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"When we look at things in the light of Tao, nothing is best, nothing is worst" — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 87 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 You can download a free PDF of…
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In this episode I am exploring sayings 38 and 39 in the Gospel of Thomas. Both have parallels in the canonical gospels, but not exactly. Once again context – or more exactly lack of context – is an important factor in the interpretation of these sayings of Jesus. I will read the sayings in Thomas for you. Jesus said, "Often you have desired to hear…
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Burnout meets spiritual wisdom as Lloyd tries to follow the Tao’s advice to “step back” while TikTok insists you “go the f home.” From Black Friday chaos to yoga calamity to a Diane Court breadcrumb, he tackles unclenching, trauma alphabetizing, and resisting a culture that treats exhaustion as a patriotic duty. Send a text. Ask a question & I will…
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Lloyd channels the Tao Te Ching, Bruce Lee, and Standing Rock to figure out how to stay fluid in a country addicted to certainty, shouting, and weaponized confidence. A Taoist survival guide to softness, resilience, and not cracking like a ceramic mug dropped on concrete. Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episode Support the s…
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"The game is never over. Birth and death are even. The terms are not final." — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 86 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 You can download a free PDF of th…
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In this episode I am looking at two sayings in the Gospel of Thomas, sayings 36 and 37. Both have to do with clothing. Here they are: Jesus said, "Do not be concerned from morning until evening and from evening until morning about what you will wear." His disciples said, "When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see you?" Jesus said, "…
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Lloyd holds Chapter 7 up to New York and accidentally walks into a borough-wide spiritual awakening involving Zohran Mamdani, a bureaucratic bull, and a matador with excellent timing. A Taoist meditation on revolution, clarity, compassion, activism, and the rare moment when capitalism finally blinks. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon…
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The I Thou Video Series' host Richard Wicka has a conversation with Joel opening with the posited question, 'What Is?' or 'What Is, existentially?' The discussion response from Richard offers Panta Rhei (i.e., everything changes). What is identity? Identity and a Real Self, are there two aspects within each of us? Is only one real? Kireeragard: rea…
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A cryptic Taoist passage meets an AI-fueled attention storm, and Lloyd tries to loosen his grip without dropping the entire plot. Between tech hype, political theater, spiritual commentary, and soft rebellion, he explores whether small human softness can survive a system designed to monetize your nervous system before breakfast. Send a text. Ask a …
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"Of all the waters in the world the ocean is greatest. All the rivers pour into it day and night; it is never filled. It gives back its waters day and night." — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 84 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki…
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Lloyd attempts to meditate inside late-stage America, also known as a 24-hour anxiety carnival sponsored by lobbyists. With Lao Tzu whispering calm on one shoulder and W. B. Yeats muttering doom on the other, he searches for one breath that isn’t manufactured by crisis. A Taoist riff on clarity, culture, mindfulness, and why everything seems to be …
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Lloyd peers into the Tao’s “bottomless well” and finds a Gen X protest romantic and a confused boombox philosopher staring back. From The Sound of Music’s antifascist nuns to Reagan-era greed, he follows the Tao Te Ching through nostalgia, social justice, and democracy’s questionable taste in role models. A meditation on softness, memory, and what …
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"…books contain words only. And yet there is something else which gives value to the books. Not the words only, nor the thought in the words, but something else within the thought, swinging it in a certain direction that words cannot apprehend." — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 82 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to…
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Today I am covering two sayings in the Gospel of Thomas. Sayings 34 and 35. I am doing this because they are short, and they are making the same point. They are also very similar to sayings that we find in the New Testament gospels. For that reason, the difference in interpretation of these sayings really is a matter of context. Here are the two sa…
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Lloyd Dobler tackles “effortless action” by immediately trying way too hard at it. Using the Tao Te Ching as a loose compass, he wanders through activism, Audre Lorde, Greta Thunberg, and a polka-dot–dress middle finger with more moral clarity than Congress. This episode blends philosophy, guided meditation, spiritual commentary, and political comm…
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Pádraig Ó Tuama joins Joel and shares a conversation from the heart about poetry, spirituality, community, and communion. The conversation opens to how Joel and Pádraig met, and what informed Pádraig's life as a Poet and Theologian. Pádraig recalls the influences of Ireland and school and the foundation of poetry in that experience, and poetry as r…
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Lloyd opens Chapter 2 determined to practice wu wei, only to discover that letting go is hard when the algorithm keeps sending push alerts about ICE hiring sprees. This Taoist meditation–philosophy–political commentary mashup follows Lloyd as he tries to stay human inside a system that delights in monetizing his cortisol. Taoism, tech culture, Gen …
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On this week's podcast, we have the privilege of hearing from Paula R. She shared her story and her new book, Hitchhiking into Recovery. 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 You can download a fr…
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Today I am going to cover two sayings in the Gospel of Thomas, sayings 32 and 33. There are actually three sayings in these two verses. One about being built on a mountaintop, one about shouting from a housetop, and one about shining from a tabletop. I am grouping them together because they have the same theme and in the canonical gospels they are …
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Lloyd Dobler kicks off Season 2 by opening the Tao Te Ching and immediately committing a cosmic foul: trying to podcast the un-podcastable. What follows is a guided meditation held together with duct tape, a philosophy podcast trapped inside a political commentary podcast, and a Gen X attempt at staying human while democracy performs its mid-autops…
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Lloyd Dobler is back. Older, grayer, and still trying to meditate through a coup. In Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd, the Gen-X dissident and accidental anti-guru starts over—using the Tao Te Ching as both the lens and the light to find stillness in Trumplandia. Eighty-one chapters. Two episodes a week. Tuesdays and Fridays. One middle-aged dissident …
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Tod interviewed Deepak Chopra for a work assignment and asked for his thoughts on Taoism. Later, Tod and George also explore Lu Dong Pin’s dream, which led him to reject worldly power for the Tao, and Chuang Tzu’s “Tower of Spirit,” a lesson in guarding sincerity. George’s new film, “What is Consciousness?”…
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"For emptiness, stillness, tranquility, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things." — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 81 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 Yo…
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What am I living for? "both lost their original nature" — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 78 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Here is a link to an online version of the Tao Te Ching that we use in every meeting: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Year:1972,1988,1996,2004/section:80 You can download a free PDF of the most current versio…
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Am I approaching life's situations from a place of fear or Love? "When a hideous man becomes a father And a son is born to him In the middle of the night He trembles and lights a lamp And runs to look in anguish On that child's face To see whom he resembles." — Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Page 77 30 Tools to Stay Sober All Year Round! Her…
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