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Acknowledging our own transcendence.

Regardless of what we think or what we think we know, that is if we think and know at all – is the importance of reading, critical thinking, and questioning what we take for granted as important. Rather we want to think about it or not we are here first as spirit. What remains everlasting is our spirit, each of us are transcendent even if we don’t understand what that word means or even care. It is a way overused thought but “we are spirit having a human encounter”.     Back to reading, advancing our knowing and wisdom that…

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To live as if enemies did not exist.

Taoism and Lao Tzu When I think about adding to what I wrote twenty-five years that was published in 2006 as my own commentary, or version of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, the first thing I ask myself today is “how well does what I wrote back then hold up now”. I think pretty well. Having traveled over the years in China and seeing the places Lao, Lieh, and Chuang Tzu would have traveled, and having a much better idea or picture of how history has held up over time, writing a new commentary now, it’s like seeing the nuances…

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