The Tao Te Ching for Everyday Living
Email the podcast: DailyTaoLife@gmail.com Welcome to the Tao Te Ching for Everyday Living. I’m your host, Dan Casas-Murray. This podcast is for the Tao Curious, those looking for a random bit of wisdom once in awhile, or for those who want to dive into this wonderful teaching.I’ve been studying the Tao Te Ching for just short of a year now, and have reconnected with a natural feeling of inner peace and contentment. I don’t hold a doctorate, nor am I qualified to teach anything about the Tao Te Ching - I’m just an ordinary person who has experienced the wonderful side effects of following the Tao. Since everyone’s experience with this wisdom is different, the only thing that I can hope for is that mine helps you to connect with the Tao in your own, unique, personal way. Feel free to listen to each episode a day at a time or any time you need a quick “Tao-shot.” You can listen while on your way to work or after that, when you’re winding down. It’s always a good time to observe the Tao.In each episode, we’ll do four things:1. We’ll read a verse of the Tao Te Ching2. Break it down into everyday language3. I’ll share my own thoughts and experience4. Apply the Verse with a couple of the many ways you can put the Tao into practice for yourself.That’s pretty much how I’ve been practicing the Tao every day - by listening to Lao Tzu, reflecting on his words of wisdom, listening to other comments, and trying to practice them in everyday life.
Episodes
81 episodes
Tao Te Ching Verse 81: Staying Connected with Truth
Tao Te Ching Verse 81translated by Isabella MearsFaithful words may not be beautiful,Beautiful wor...
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Tao Te Ching Verse 80: Accessing the Utopia Within
Tao Te Ching Verse 80translated by Hua-Ching NiLet there be small communities with few inhabitants....
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Episode 80
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Tao Te Ching Verse 79: Staying Forgiving
Tao Te Ching Verse 79translated by Keith H. SeddonWhen a bad grudge is settled,Some enmity is b...
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Episode 79
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Tao Te Ching Verse 78: Staying Humble
Tao Te Ching Verse 78translated by The Tao of RivenrockThere is nothing more flexible and yielding than water.And yet there is nothing better for attacking the hard and rigid, there is nothing that can dowhat it c...
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Tao Te Ching Verse 77: Staying Content
Tao Te Ching Verse 77translated by AnonymousThe natural order is like stretching a bowThe low bow gets pushed up highAnd the high tendon pulled downwar...
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Episode 77
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Tao Te Ching Verse 76: Staying Compassionate
Tao Te Ching Verse 76translated by Xiaolin YangWhen people are alive, they are soft; when...
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Episode 76
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Tao Te Ching Verse 75: Abstinence
Tao Te Ching Verse 75translated by Shi Fu HwangThe people suffer from hunger because their superior ...
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Episode 75
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Tao Te Ching Verse 74: Disqualifying Ourselves from Managing
Tao Te Ching Verse 74translated by Frederic Henry BalfourIf people do not fear death why attempt to frighten them by capital punishment?Supposing the people...
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Episode 74
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Tao Te Ching Verse 73: The Tao's Perfect Outcome
Tao Te Ching Verse 73translated by Isabella MearsA person with courage and daring is sla...
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Tao Te Ching Verse 72: Reflecting
Tao Te Ching Verse 72translated by Charles JohnstonWhen the people fear not what should be feared, then what is most to be feared descends upon them....
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Episode 72
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Tao Te Ching Verse 71: Working Toward Conscious Awareness
Tao Te Ching Verse 71translated by Hua-Ching NiOne who regards one’s intellectual knowledge as ignorance has deep insight.One who overrates one’s i...
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Tao Te Ching Verse 70: Paying Attention
Tao Te Ching Verse 70translated by Bruce R. LinnellMy words are very easy to understand,Very easy to practice.But there is no one in the worl...
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Tao Te Ching Verse 69: Practicing Humility Humbly
Tao Te Ching Verse 69translated by Bram den HondThose who use weapons have a saying which goes:"I do not presume to act like the hostbut inst...
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Episode 69
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Tao Te Ching Verse 68: Practicing Non-Contention
Tao Te Ching Verse 68translated by Lin YutangThe brave soldier is not violent;The good fighter does not lose his temper;The great conqueror does not ...
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Episode 68
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Tao Te Ching Verse 67: The Three Treasures
Tao Te Ching Verse 67translated by Ellen Marie ChenAll under heaven say that my Tao is great,That it seems useless (pu hsiao).Because it is great,<...
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Episode 67
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Tao Te Ching Verse 66: Leading from Behind
Tao Te Ching Verse 66translated by Dwight GoddardThe reason rivers and seas are called the kings o...
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Episode 66
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Tao Te Ching Verse 65: Staying on the Path
Tao Te Ching Verse 65translated by Hua-Ching NiIn ancient times, those who were well-versed in the prac...
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Tao Te Ching Verse 64: Getting Proactive with the Tao
Tao Te Ching Verse 64translated by Sanderson BeckWhat stays still is easy to hold.Without omens it is easy to plan.The brittle is easy to shatter.The mi...
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Tao Te Ching Verse 63: Refining Ourselves with the Tao
Tao Te Ching Verse 63translated by James Legge(It is the way of the Tao) to act without (thinking of) acting;to conduct affairs without (feeling the) trou...
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Tao Te Ching Verse 62: Giving the Tao
Tao Te Ching Verse 62translated by Han Hiong TanDao is the safe haven for all beings.The go...
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Episode 62
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Tao Te Ching Verse 61: Practicing Vulnerability
Tao Te Ching Verse 61translated by Lin YutangA big country (should be like) the delta low-regions, Being the concourse of the world, ...
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Episode 61
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Tao Te Ching Verse 60: Un-Managing with the Tao
Tao Te Ching Verse 60translated by Han Hiong TanGoverning a big country is akin to frying a small fish.When the power of D...
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Episode 60
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Tao Te Ching Verse 59: Widening the Channel
Tao Te Ching Verse 59translated by Herman OuldIn the ruling of men and the serving of Heaven nothing ...
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Episode 59
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