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Past Observations

Taoist Thought
The Tradeoff
Buddha’s Truths Pertain To All Life
Trump and the Mandate of Heaven
Refreshing Redundancy
The Year Is 1915
We All Know We Don’t Know
Who are you? (Part V)
Who are you? (Part IV)
Who are you? (Part III)
Who are you? (Part II)
Who are you?
The Word Trap
Stressors of Comfort and Security
“Right state of peaceful mind”
What Climate Catastrophy?
Straight Poop on the Paleo Diet
Fear & Need Born in Nothing
Science Proves Buddha Right!
Alleviating the Hoarding Disorder
Amazon mother
Cultivating Character
Cultivating Ego
Passing judgment is healthy if…
Necessity is the Mother
Practice what you preach
Of Mountains, Molehills and the Supernatural
Civilized Insanity
Ancient Signs Of Modern Behavior
The Good Old Days
Modus Operandi
Alone with Thought
A proper sense of awe
CenterTao Group Anyone?
Loving Your Eco-System
Where does the fault lie?
Taoist secrets
Laws as Symptoms, not Solutions
Loss Aversion Management
Mind Over Milkshake
Flow Triggers
Naturally Racist
BRAIN
Managing Our Disorders
Bono & Musk on Creativity
The Harmless People
Born Again Taoist
Free Willers Anonymous
Instinctive Free Will
Stupidly Intelligent
The Proof is in the Pudding
A Wealth of Happiness
Natural Happiness
Is Happiness In Your Choices?
Profound Connections Enlighten
Religion… an Opiate?
Is Gen Y Unhappy?
Remember the Disease
The Pendulum Swings
You are Immortal!
A Rose By Any Other Name
Emotion Speaks… Literally
I Look, But Do I See?
Just like Us, Just like Them
Science’s Baby Steps
Worthy of a Noble Life?
Who says chickens are stupid?
Seeking Out Untruth
Earn It to Learn It
Counterbalancing I.Q.
Mind Run Away; Run Away Mind
“The rich suffer in comfort”
Self-Predation
Finding Your Original Self
Feeding the Worry Gene
Hold the Knowable
Good Enough Is!
Ponder Between the Lines
Soaking in Inspiration
A Tao of Parenting
Buddha’s Work
Insatiably Curious at 70?
Breathe Into It
Tao of Government
Will-to-Live, Free or Otherwise
Begin New Years with a smile
The Why Of It
The Truth vs. The Middle
Dumbfounding
A Taoist Creed
Of Free Will, I Am
Discomfort and Pain
Undecided? You bet!
Siren’s Song of Politics
“It’s the Economy Stupid”
Networks of Networks of….
Can we pull the plug?
Yamaguchi San
“Fixation on same same”
Beware: the Blind Spot
And Then There Was Fire
Tao and Democracy
What’s Not the Elephant?
Upping the Ante
A Word to the Wise?
A Bee with Personality
Necessity, the Mother
Guilt, Shame and the Name Game
The Secret to Happiness!
It Began Now
I am foolish of human mind also?
Seat of Consciousness
What Follows Loss of the Way?
Placebo Effect
Imagining a Better Way
Who or What Do You Trust?
Giving Your Life a Gift
The Only Safe Escape
Use Non-Responsibility
Be Careful What You Wish
Jack of All Trades, Master of None?
We only understand what we know
Two Paths
The Trans Tribal Tao
Resistance is Futile
A Brother is a Brother
Really, Have We No Clue?
Why?
Gone Fishin’, Back Soon
Check One Off the Bucket List
Opiate of the Masses
The Wealthy Poor
Dreaming the Way
Sobering up!
Oh My Aching Bones
The Utility of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Naturally Unnatural, Naturally!
Naked Thought
Success Thru Failure
I, Amoeba
Why Man is King
Ethics as an Emergent Property
Loss is Gain; Gain is Loss
“… Strive On Diligently”
Is Pain the Constant?
Ants Are Us
Feeling Animal-ness
Pleasure Isn’t Well Being
Is Rock Conscious?
See No Evil
Keep ’em guessing?
Thou Shalt Not…
You Are What You Own
Priorities
We!
You Know
Who You Are Determines Who I Am, & Visa Versa
An Improper Sense of Awe
Thoughts and Ducks Quacking
The poetry of it all
So, I’d like to ask…
Don’t trust anyone under 60
Imagination knows no end
In Praise Of Nothing
It’s Simply Nature’s Way
The Truth About Lies
It’s Time We Changed Our Name
Fear Rules
Nothing’s Certain but Death and…
Reward, Fear & Need
He Who Conquers Self
Democracy as Myth
So, You Want Enlightenment, Eh?
When Is Attachment Good?
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
The Story Trumps Truth
Water in Mind
Why God?
Playing With Dolls
Belief in Nothing is Dangerous
Illusions, Everywhere I Think
Wandering Mind Is Unhappy Mind
Love
Small ‘t’ Taoists
Beyond Spooky
My Battle With Tobacco
John Cleese, a ‘Taoist’?
The Nutty Things We Do
A Symptom’s Point Of View
Fear Is The Bottom Line
Change we can believe in?
Science, Religion, Truth
Children Know What Adults Forget
The Spirit of Yoga
The less I think, the more I know
Exquisite Balance
Skullduggery is rampant in nature
What Shapes How You Think?
Tao As Emergent Property
Balancing Difference With Similarity
Thinking clouds consciousness
Where Is Freedom?
Decisions Decisions
Poor Thais And Rich Swedes
Time’s Arrow
Desire and Contentment
Learning What You Know
We’re Not So Different After All
Chairs: One of Our Big Mistakes
Gossip, Hysteria, News
The Family Purse
Swarm Savvy
SETI… Quixotic SETI
The Worry Gene
Odds Are, It’s Wrong
Bathtub Tai Chi
How the Hoodwink Hooks
Omega-3 and Vitamin D
He Who Speaks Does Not Know, but…
Hunger: A Natural Stimulant
Know Truth, Live True
Why Not Protest To Raise Taxes?
Self Integrity, Slime, and Karma
A How-To for Extinguishing Self
Significant Others
Headstands and Apes
The Future Takes Care of Itself
Teachers and Students
Are You As Happy As You Should Be?
Keeping Birthday Happy
Why Do Idiot Savants Run Things?
Trust But Verify
Are You A Beliefaholic?
Sage Advice from Wall Street
Of Course It’s Alive!
What Am I Doing?
I understand, but do I know?
Just In: We’re All Nuts!
The Future is Now!
Peeking Through the Covers
Innately Ethical
Can You Believe What You See?
Suicide Just Doesn’t Work
A Hypochondriac’s Miracle Cure
An Essential Taoist Secret
Just How Big Is The Gap?
The Theory of God
Who is Right?
You Are Who You Are By Default
Cave Man Shakuhachi?
Into the Jungle?
Swimming Tai Chi Spermatozoa Style
Are you out of touch with nature?
It was a dark and stormy night…
Cease Treading Water and Just Sink
Enjoy What You Do – or – Do What You Enjoy?
The Glare Hides ‘Out There’ From View
The illusion of ‘moment’
Consciousness Physics
A Taoist Solution to Gay Marriage
Emotion Clear-cuts Perception
Right Mindfulness, Attentiveness, and Concentration?
The best tao? (road, way, principle, speak, think)
The trick lies in not believing, yet believing
What is ‘the Tao’ actually?
Think what you believe? Believe what you think?
Yin Yang, Nature’s Hoodwink
Public Tantrums
Understanding Understanding
Wealth plays out in odd ways
Peaches and Pleasure
Looking Through the Looking Glass
Even a little progress is freedom from fear
Religion: The best placebo?
Correlation’s ‘Prime Directive’
The Cost of Compassion
Can you say what you think?
Grinding Out Correlations
“Do you believe in angels?”
The Amazonian ‘Taoists’
Is Enlightenment Something or ???
Family Life
Who’s a Sage?
The Gifts Given – Paid In Full
King Kiwi
Blowing with the sea
In praise of kale
Always be a beginner
It’s Like Magic!
How do we know what is true?
Am I Bored or Just Content?
Do Good Christians Make Good People?
PS
The Decider
Peeking in on Nature’s Hoodwink
How to Know You’re Happy
It Is Spooky
Of What Is The Taoist Model Symptomatic?
Is ‘Free Will’ the Only Option?
Butterflies have wings; we have minds
Mind in Body in Mind in Body…xin
Such Synergy
Where There’s Passion (fire), There’s Blindness (smoke)
Seeing the world ‘out there’
Schrödinger’s cat
Tai Chi Video
Life Is Struggle, Happiness Is Contentment
What’s With All The Hair?
Tao Views of the Dow
Biology’s Blinders: WYSIWYG
Those Who Speak Do Not Know. So, Why Speak?
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Postscript

At nearly 80, I feel it’s time to wrap things up with this Postscript. Given chapter 5 here, it is about time. 🙂

More speech counts as exceptionally limited; not in accord with keeping to the middle.

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