Taoist Wisdom

Tao Te Ching Chapter 2: “When we all see some things as beautiful, we make other things ugly. When we all see some things as good, we make other things bad.”

Naming brings a mutually arising pair into being, yet we rarely stop at difference alone: one side quietly becomes the measure by which the other is judged and pushed away.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 1: “The Way that can be spoken is not the eternal Way. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

Our lived experience keeps changing, yet the forms and names we give it often remain, asking permanence of what was never meant to hold still.