Daoism with Ian Felton

Joan Miró's art reminds me of the simplicity of Dao. Listen to the podcast on Spotify to follow along . Ian's Translations Poetic Translation The way we speak of is not the way itself. The names we give will never capture it. The nameless is the beginning of everything. The named gives shape to all manifestations. Let go of desire to see its subtle creativity. Hold on to desire to see its contours and edges. The creative field and manifestations arise together, but we referen

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 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 Integrity and

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