Tag Archives: tao te ching

The only path to serenity

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Michaela

9 Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. … Continue reading →

Posted in Doing not-doing | Tagged | 1 Comment

All you need to know…

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Michaela

33 Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. If you stay in the center and embrace death with … Continue reading →

Posted in Doing not-doing | Tagged | Leave a comment

Stay in the Centre

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Michaela

Verse 33 Knowing others is intelligence: knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power  . If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich. if you stay in the center and embrace death … Continue reading →

Posted in Doing not-doing | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Caught in a Rip Tide

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Michaela

78 Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few … Continue reading →

Posted in Doing not-doing, The Window Seat, The world we live in Now | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Making use of aloneness

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Michaela

42 The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have their back to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female … Continue reading →

Posted in The Window Seat | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

The Tao is the Way

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Michaela

Verse 23 is about true intimacy and being at one with all things. To be at one with all things requires to lower the guard and open up fully and completely. Embrace life with everything it has got and take … Continue reading →

Tagged , | 6 Comments

Dora is teaching the Tao

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Michaela

This is a beautiful observation as told by my friend Jill. It made me think of verse 36 of the Tao-te-ching. Dora had her first training session last Friday with Penelope the dog whisperer.  It was an indepth evaluation so … Continue reading →

Posted in Darling, how was your day? | Tagged | 1 Comment

The Tao is the way

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Michaela

This verse from the Tao-te-ching speaks about teaching people to “not know”. What does that mean ? Maybe it is to cease judging, drop expectation and stay open to all possibilities. Understand and drop old conditioning. It is very difficult … Continue reading →

Posted in Doing not-doing | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

The Tao is the way

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Michaela

Practicing eternity. Verse 52 from the tao-te-ching is about accepting the shadows in oneself. To turn to oneself and allowing everything to be as it is. The past is nothing but a passing cloud, leaving a shadow. Find the shadow … Continue reading →

Posted in All things Rumi | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The tao is the way

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Michaela

I have come to marvel at occasion when I am able to observe a silent teachings unfolding. It helps me to understand the ” doing not-doing”, which is not passivity, far from it, but it is a state of high … Continue reading →

Posted in Doing not-doing | Tagged , | Leave a comment