Ok, I know. I’ve let myself go a little lately. In the past I’ve taken to cut off my hair – usually all of it – when it felt uncomfortable. That usually happens on one hot day while toiling outside, but summer has passed. I’ve toiled outside, it’s been hot, and yet I’m not been […]
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Tao Views of the Dow
The inflation adjusted chart (above) covering the last 100 years of the Dow Jones shows the ebb and flow of the stock market. It is easy to see how the highs and the lows, follow each other in a natural ebb and flow. As chapter 2 says, ‘the high and the low incline towards each other’ […]
Continue reading…Biology’s Blinders: WYSIWYG
I am constantly amazed by how easily our biology hoodwinks us into believing that human perception depicts reality. In other words, we evolved to sense ‘the world out there’ in a way that served survival. There is no reason to assume this coincides with sensing how ‘the world out there’ truly is any more than […]
Continue reading…Those Who Speak Do Not Know. So, Why Speak?
I now know enough to know that I don’t know. Chapter 71 speaks well to this state of mind, To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty. Chapter 56 is even blunter, One who knows does not speak; […]
Continue reading…Welcome to CenterTao.org 2.0!
Well, here it is! Feel free to comment. We’re still under construction here as of September 2008. Your thoughts are most welcome.
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