from Verse Sixty-Four Not listening and not inquiring is like being blind and deaf in the company of others. ~ Wen-tzu: Understanding the Mysteries ~For me, passages like this are important because so much emphasis in Taoist thought is focused on the...

Chuang Tzu and his old master, Lao Tzu, are against culture. They are for nature, pure nature. Trees are in a better position than you... even birds, fishes in the river, are in a better position because they are more alive, they dance more to the...

Culture kills you, culture is a murderer, culture is a slow poison -- it is a suicide. ~ from When the Shoe Fits: Commentaries on the Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu ~What do you think about this Osho quote? Agree? Disagree? I don't have an...

from Verse Sixty-Four Speaking is a means of expressing oneself to others, hearing is a means of understanding others in oneself. People who are blind and deaf do not experience this, so there are things they do not know. But blindness and deafness...

A dream is always to complete something: something which has remained incomplete in the day will be completed in a dream because the mind has a tendency to complete everything. If it is not complete then the mind will always be uneasy. Effort is put...