![]() I put this work alongside the chuang tsu as being in the first rank of thoughtful, graceful branchings from tao te ching itself. It is a round book in that sense, not a square/linear one. Even the "365" suggests a circle or orbit that is aesthetically taoist for me. There seem to be layers or levels of artistry resonating with the original, perhaps only semi-consciously sensed by the writer himself. The intentional poetry lines I like the least the prose better glides right into the cadences of the original. I think this is a success in all these dimensions, and their joining in this work. Imagine an author who is bright and searching, and has occupied the thought (and tone - the very resonance of the original) in tao te ching, and then journalized in compact statements various permutations, possibilities found in these explorations, in relation to everyday experience and thinking. May Harmony Find You.ĭeep and wide, graceful, insightful, a classicĪs a scholar of taoist writings, and something of a taoist myself, I was pleasantly surprised here. 365 discreet Taoist subjects, who would have believed it possible to lock down any non-dual teacher to be so verbose! A true treasure in my opinion. The structure of the book is a daily thought for each day of the year. Slowing it down allows the richness of the message to sink in. On a practical note, I have found it useful to listen at. It's not poetic like I am, it primarily gives good, solid, useful wisdom to use for walking the path from the silent forest back out to the chaotic life of the market place. However, I don't want to misrepresent it. I thoroughly enjoy sitting by the sparkling stream of its music. I think I have created more bookmarks in this one book than all the rest of my whole library put together. If you have found yourself reading the Tao Te Ching and wanting something else, something more, something different, if you have read the simplistic non-dual writings of an awakened being and gotten it when others are saying, "Um.yeah.ok.so?," If you like resonating with the words of someone who has embodied what you *know*, if you like humming along with someone who is singing the song you have been learning your whole spiritual walk and have them fish silvery, splashing, wiggling, slippery, concepts out of the deepest, darkest, coldest, most silent primal ocean bottom of your spirit (which your fishing line hasn't been quite long enough to get to), you might enjoy this book as I have. So strong is devotion that there is nothing that is not part of it.If you already have a love affair with the Tao, if you catch fleeting glances of it in the swaying of a tree or hear echoes of it in the wind in a silent meadow, if you thrill at its crystalline structure in the perfect way everything in the universe fits, flows, laughs, and then dances off out of your monkey mind's grasp. That is why it is said that the world is like a single point. ![]() Nothing is faraway anymore, nothing is not open to us. If we see our path clearly and our personalities are completely unified, then there is no distinction between the outer world and the inner one. Only by uniting all our inner elements can we have full devotion. ![]() Our bodies, our hearts, and our spirits must be totally concentrated upon what we want. Proper devotion lies not simply in a headlong course. No matter what tries to keep us from our purpose, we will not be deterred. Our path becomes like a crooked one made straight. Fewer and fewer obstructions will come before us. "If we have devotion- total faith and commitment to our spiritual path- our determination will naturally build momentum. I thought today's meditation was appropriate for dressage riders it talks about devotion. I received the book, 365 Days of Tao, Daily Meditations, as a gift from my mother-in-law, Bethanne Ragaglia. ![]()
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