Fire and Water are the Yin and Yang of the real world…
Oct
21
2012
21
2012
Feb
24
2012
24
2012
Key Concepts from the Tao Te Ching, Part 2
Non-action (wu wei), and its opposite, action (wei), are the most important concepts after Tao and Te in the Tao Te Ching. Since modern culture encourages action —doing stuff, getting stuff done, being on the go ad infinitum— it is very easy to take non-action to mean doing nothing, and hence as something bad. Since [...]
Jan
18
2012
18
2012
Key Concepts from the Tao Te Ching, Part 1
The Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu (circa 500 BCE), is not only a foundational text of both Taoism and Chinese culture, but also key to the theories and ideas behind many Chinese martial arts. Unfortunately the text is very inscrutable, regardless as to whether one knows Chinese. This inscrutability is due to its antiquity [...]
