Daoism with Ian Felton

Heaven and earth endure because they don't live for themselves—and the sage, mirroring that same movement, discovers that the self released is the self completed. This chapter is about what stops grasping, and what that makes possible.

Chapter six of Daodejing provides us with vivid imagery of Dao as a mother.

There are specific practices that formed the somatic foundation of Daoism. Modern psychotherapy has rediscovered the value of these practices and have attempted to repackage them as something modern, when in fact that are something ancient that "modern" humans forgot.

Chapter five of Daodejing, like all chapters, requires careful reading to not misinterpret the message. In this episode we'll connect how the impartiality of the sage is also like the stance of a psychotherapist.

Chapter four of Daodejing in some ways encapsulates both the ontology and epistemology of Dao. And the more we stay with this chapter, the more we see that in Dao, the two collapse into one.

In Chapter 3, wei‑wu‑wei doesn’t mean passivity or laziness. It means governing without the kind of busy, forceful, ego-driven intervention that creates second‑order problems.

In Chapter Two, the Daodejing invites us to reconsider the nature of our concepts, our actions, and our model of wisdom.

Chapter One of Daodejing introduces us to the simple complexity of Laozi's way of experiencing life.

For the podcast, I'm going to read from other translations to let listeners have the opportunity to hear and experience the approaches taken by other translators. Here are links to the books on Good Reads if you want to read along with your own copies. Dao De Jing Book Cover Translation Selections for the Podcast   Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation Roger Ames  and  David Hall   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1084188.Dao_De_Jing Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of In

Welcome to the podcast. Daodejing This is the version of the Daodejing that I use for the reading and translation. It uses simplified Chinese characters. Simplified characters  arrived in China after the People's Republic of China took power in the 1950s with the aim of making written Chinese, well, simpler. This version also includes the romanized pinyin . Pinyin uses Roman characters to help Western speakers pronounce the Chinese characters. Chinese is tonal and so there a