New (Ancient) Texts of the Tao Te Ching (Daodejing)
February 20th, 2014 | by msalt
Last summer I wrote an post about a new edition of the Daodejing that had been found in China. It [&hellip
A Rhyming Tao Te Ching
February 18th, 2014 | by msalt
It’s not cool to rhyme any more, even in poetry. (Songs still get an exemption for some reason.) So it’s [&hellip
Heroic Medicine (and the damage done)
February 12th, 2014 | by msalt
We’ve had two reminders this week of how messed up the American medical system is. Not the insurance and financing [&hellip
Your Own Private Tao of Idaho
February 6th, 2014 | by msalt
“The Tao of the Palouse” is a short (8 minute) documentary about a Daoist hermitage in rural Idaho. (The Palouse [&hellip
Human Waves
January 30th, 2014 | by msalt
Waves are a classic natural phenomenon; why else would you thrown a rock in the water? That makes it all [&hellip
The greatest sports upset ever
November 30th, 2013 | by msalt
Great sports games don’t exist in a vacuum. Your memory of the epic win mingles with some indefinable stage of [&hellip
Buddhist humor, and other myths
November 21st, 2013 | by msalt
It’s sort of a truism that Buddhists are somewhat hilarity-impaired. I’ve submitted funny articles to the likes of Tricycle and [&hellip
Captain Beefheart’s 10 Rules of Guitar Playing
September 4th, 2013 | by msalt
Here are a couple of highlights, to go with this classic bit of damaged punky blues from 1980. Morris Tepper [&hellip
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
August 10th, 2013 | by msalt
This doesn’t really have anything to do with Daoism, but it’s PAUL LYNDE, plus Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of [&hellip
New set of ancient texts (including Daodejing) discovered
July 15th, 2013 | by msalt
NOTE: This post is based on my misreading of an ambiguous New York Times article, as Scott Barnwell notes in [&hellip
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