{"id":11,"date":"2012-10-22T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T22:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2012-11-12T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:43:51","slug":"about-taoish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/about-taoish\/","title":{"rendered":"About Taoish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The name of this blog should really be Daoish but that would baffle people even more (or be misread as Danish). Welcome to a new home for irreverent, modern spirituality and related subjects.<\/p>\n

What kind of subjects?\u00a0 Oh, you know.\u00a0 Ultimate meaning, palindromes, gender, comedy, sports, politics, art and music.\u00a0 That sort of thing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m your host, Mark Saltveit, a dad, standup comedian, skimboarder, palindromist, writer, former altar boy, and unorthodox Daoist.\u00a0 My goal is to collect a group of writers and readers interested in a fresh take on spirituality that is not be pompous, righteous, holier-than-thou or sectarian.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand how anyone can think they\u2019re probing the deeper aspects of the world without finding laugh out loud absurdity, yet anything funny is usually considered sacrilegious.\u00a0 Well, tough nuts.\u00a0 I\u2019m also interested in how we find meaning today, in modern life.\u00a0 Too much of religion is obsessed with ancient words and practices, in my opinion.\u00a0 If something is true spiritually, it should be just as true in today\u2019s Cleveland or Shanghai as in ancient Palestine and India.<\/p>\n

Personally I am most engaged (at the moment) by the two Daoist classics, the Dao de jing (aka Tao Te Ching) and the Zhuangzi (aka Chuang Tzu).\u00a0 Yet I\u2019m interested in everything from the various flavors of Christianity and Buddhism to Jungian thought, existentialism, and the idiosyncratic insights of art, music and sui generis oddball mystics.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure readers will clue me in to many more fascinating threads, and I\u2019m very open to guest posts and articles.\u00a0 Have fun!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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