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Table of Posts (2008 to 2024)

1 to 157 (2008 to 2011)

  1. Welcome to CenterTao.org 2.0!
  2. Those Who Speak Do Not Know. So, Why Speak?
  3. Biology’s Blinders: WYSIWYG
  4. Those Who Speak Do Not Know. So, Why Speak?
  5. Biology’s Blinders: WYSIWYG
  6. Tao Views of the Dow
  7. What’s With All The Hair?
  8. Life Is Struggle, Happiness Is Contentment
  9. Tai Chi Video
  10. Schrödinger’s cat
  11. Seeing the world ‘out there’
  12. Where There’s Passion (fire), There’s Blindness (smoke)
  13. Such Synergy
  14. Mind in Body in Mind in Body…xin
  15. Butterflies have wings; we have minds
  16. Is ‘Free Will’ the Only Option?
  17. Of What Is The Taoist Model Symptomatic?
  18. It Is Spooky
  19. How to Know You’re Happy
  20. Peeking in on Nature’s Hoodwink
  21. The Decider
  22. PS
  23. Do Good Christians Make Good People?
  24. Am I Bored or Just Content?
  25. How do we know what is true?
  26. It’s Like Magic!
  27. Always be a beginner
  28. In praise of kale
  29. King Kiwi
  30. The Gifts Given — Paid In Full
  31. Who’s a Sage?
  32. Family Life
  33. Is Enlightenment Something or ???
  34. The Amazonian ‘Taoists’
  35. “Do you believe in angels?”
  36. Grinding Out Correlations
  37. Can you say what you think?
  38. The Cost of Compassion
  39. Correlation’s ‘Prime Directive’
  40. Religion: The best placebo?
  41. Even a little progress is freedom from fear
  42. Looking Through the Looking Glass
  43. Peaches and Pleasure
  44. Wealth plays out in odd ways
  45. Understanding Understanding
  46. Public Tantrums
  47. Yin Yang, Nature’s Hoodwink
  48. Think what you believe? Believe what you think?
  49. What is ‘the Tao’ actually?
  50. The trick lies in not believing, yet believing
  51. The best tao? (road, way, principle, speak, think)
  52. Right Mindfulness, Attentiveness, and Concentration?
  53. Emotion Clear-cuts Perception
  54. A Taoist Solution to Gay Marriage
  55. Consciousness Physics
  56. The illusion of ‘moment’
  57. The Glare Hides ‘Out There’ From View
  58. Enjoy What You Do — or — Do What You Enjoy?
  59. Cease Treading Water and Just Sink
  60. It was a dark and stormy night…
  61. Are you out of touch with nature?
  62. Swimming Tai Chi Spermatozoa Style
  63. Into the Jungle?
  64. Cave Man Shakuhachi?
  65. You Are Who You Are By Default
  66. Who is Right?
  67. The Theory of God
  68. Just How Big Is The Gap?
  69. An Essential Taoist Secret
  70. A Hypochondriac’s Miracle Cure
  71. Suicide Just Doesn’t Work
  72. Can You Believe What You See?
  73. Innately Ethical
  74. Peeking Through the Covers
  75. The Future is Now!
  76. Just In: We’re All Nuts!
  77. I understand, but do I know?
  78. What Am I Doing?
  79. Of Course It’s Alive!
  80. Sage Advice from Wall Street
  81. Are You A Beliefaholic?
  82. Trust But Verify
  83. Why Do Idiot Savants Run Things?
  84. Keeping Birthday Happy
  85. Are You As Happy As You Should Be?
  86. Teachers and Students
  87. The Future Takes Care Of Itself
  88. Headstands and Apes
  89. Significant Others
  90. A How-To for Extinguishing Self
  91. Self Integrity, Slime, and Karma
  92. Why Not Protest To Raise Taxes?
  93. Know ‘Truth’, Live True
  94. Hunger: A Natural Stimulant
  95. He Who Speaks Does Not Know, but…
  96. Omega-3 and Vitamin D
  97. How the Hoodwink Hook
  98. Bathtub Tai Chi
  99. Odds Are, It’s Wrong
  100. The Worry Gene
  101. SETI Shmeti
  102. Group Think
  103. The Family Purse
  104. Gossip, Hysteria, News
  105. Chairs: One of Our Big Mistakes
  106. We’re Not So Different After All
  107. Learning What You Know
  108. Desire and Contentment
  109. Time’s Arrow
  110. Poor Thais And Rich Swedes
  111. Decisions Decisions
  112. Where Is Freedom?
  113. Thinking clouds consciousness
  114. Balancing Difference With Similarity
  115. Tao As Emergent Property
  116. What Shapes How You Think?
  117. Skullduggery is rampant in nature
  118. Exquisite Balance
  119. The less I think, the more I know
  120. The Spirit of Yoga
  121. Children Know What Adults Forget
  122. Science, Religion, Truth
  123. Change we can believe in?
  124. Fear Is The Bottom Line
  125. A Symptom’s Point Of View
  126. The Nutty Things We Do
  127. John Cleese, A ‘Taoist’?
  128. My Battle With Tobacco
  129. Beyond Spooky
  130. Small ‘t’ Taoists
  131. Love
  132. Wandering Mind Is Unhappy Mind
  133. Illusions, Everywhere I Think
  134. Belief in Nothing is Dangerous
  135. Playing With Dolls
  136. Why God?
  137. Water in Mind
  138. The Story Trumps Truth
  139. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
  140. When Is Attachment Good?
  141. So, You Want Enlightenment, Eh?
  142. Democracy as Myth
  143. He Who Conquers Self
  144. Reward, Fear & Need
  145. Nothing’s Certain but Death and…
  146. Fear Rules
  147. It’s Time We Changed Our Name
  148. The Truth About Lies
  149. It’s Simply Nature’s Way
  150. In Praise Of Nothing
  151. Don’t trust anyone under 60
  152. So, I’d like to ask…
  153. Thoughts and Ducks Quacking
  154. An Improper Sense of Awe
  155. You Know
  156. We!
  157. You Are What You Own
  158. Thou Shalt Not…
  159. See No Evil

158 to 313 (2011 to 2024)

  1. Is Rock Conscious?
  2. Feeling Animal-ness
  3. Ants Are Us
  4. “… Strive On Diligently”
  5. Loss is Gain; Gain is Loss
  6. Why Man is King
  7. I, Amoeba
  8. Naked Thought
  9. Naturally Unnatural, Naturally!
  10. Oh My Aching Bones
  11. Sobering up!
  12. The Wealthy Poor
  13. Opiate of the Masses
  14. Gone Fishin’, Back Soon
  15. Why?
  16. Really, Have We No Clue?
  17. A Brother is a Brother
  18. Resistance is Futile
  19. The Trans Tribal Tao
  20. Two Paths
  21. We only understand what we know
  22. Jack of All Trades, Master of None?
  23. Be Careful What You Wish
  24. Use Non-Responsibility
  25. The Only Safe Escape
  26. Giving Your Life a Gift
  27. Who or What Do You Trust?
  28. Imagining a Better Way
  29. Placebo Effect
  30. What Follows Loss of the Way?
  31. Seat of Consciousness
  32. I am foolish of human mind also?
  33. It Began Now
  34. The Secret to Happiness!
  35. Guilt, Shame and the Name Game
  36. Necessity, the Mother
  37. A Bee with Personality
  38. A Word to the Wise?
  39. Upping the Anti
  40. What’s Not the Elephant?
  41. Tao and Democracy
  42. And Then There Was Fire
  43. Beware: the Blind Spot
  44. “Fixation on same, same”
  45. Yamaguchi San
  46. Can we pull the plug?
  47. Networks of Networks of….
  48. “It’s the Economy Stupid”
  49. Siren’s Song of Politics
  50. Undecided? You bet!
  51. Discomfort and Pain
  52. Of Free Will, I Am
  53. A Taoist Creed
  54. Dumbfounding
  55. The Truth vs. The Middle
  56. The Why Of It
  57. Begin New Years with a smile
  58. Will-to-Live, Free or Otherwise
  59. Tao of Government
  60. Breathe Into It
  61. Insatiably Curious at 70?
  62. Buddha’s Work
  63. A Tao of Parenting
  64. Soaking in Inspiration
  65. Ponder Between the Lines
  66. Good Enough Is!
  67. Hold the Knowable
  68. Feeding the Worry Gene
  69. Finding Your Original Self
  70. Self-Predation
  71. “The rich suffer in comfort”
  72. Mind Run Away Mind
  73. Counterbalancing I.Q.
  74. Earn It to Learn It
  75. Seeking Out Untruth
  76. Who says chickens are stupid?
  77. Worthy of a Noble Life?
  78. Science’s Baby Steps
  79. Just like Us, Just like Them
  80. I Look, But Do I See?
  81. Emotion Speaks… Literally
  82. A Rose By Any Other Name
  83. You are Immortal!
  84. The Pendulum Swings
  85. Remember the Disease
  86. Is Gen Y Unhappy?
  87. Religion… an Opiate?
  88. Profound Connections Enlighten
  89. Is Happiness In Your Choices?
  90. Natural Happiness
  91. A Wealth of Happiness
  92. The Proof is in the Pudding
  93. Stupidly Intelligent
  94. Instinctive Free Will
  95. Free Willers Anonymous
  96. Born Again Taoist
  97. The Harmless People
  98. Bono & Musk on Creativity
  99. Managing Our Disorders
  100. BRAIN
  101. Naturally Racist
  102. Flow Triggers
  103. Mind Over Milkshake
  104. Loss Aversion Management
  105. Laws as Symptoms, not Solutions
  106. Taoist secrets
  107. Where does the fault lie?
  108. Loving Your Eco-System
  109. A proper sense of awe
  110. Alone with Thought
  111. Modus Operandi
  112. The Good Old Days
  113. Ancient Signs Of Modern Behavior
  114. Civilized Insanity
  115. Of Mountains, Molehills and the Supernatural
  116. Practice what you preach
  117. Necessity is the Mother
  118. Passing judgment is healthy if…
  119. Cultivating Ego
  120. Cultivating Character
  121. Amazon mother
  122. Alleviating the Hoarding Disorder
  123. Science Proves Buddha Right!
  124. Fear & Need Born in Nothing
  125. Straight Poop on the Paleo Diet
  126. What Climate Catastrophy?
  127. “Right state of peaceful mind”
  128. Stressors of Comfort and Security
  129. The Word Trap
  130. Who are you?
  131. Who are you? (Part II)
  132. Who are you? (Part III)
  133. Who are you? (Part IV)
  134. Who are you? (Part V)
  135. We All Know We Don’t Know
  136. The Year Is 1915
  137. Refreshing Redundancy
  138. Trump and the Mandate of Heaven
  139. Buddha’s Truths Pertain To All Life
  140. The Tradeoff

Wrapping Up (2024)

  1. The New Science of Practical Wisdom
  2. Nature’s Bell Curve
  3. Mirror Neurons
  4. Hunger and our ‘disease’
  5. A final word on fear
  6. A final word on need
  7. A final word on expectations
  8. A final word on free will
  9. A final word on civilization
  10. A final word on consciousness
  11. A final word on the correlation’s process
  12. A final word on Buddha’s First Noble Truth
  13. A final word on profound sameness
  14. A final word on truth… What is truth really?
  15. A final word on our disease
  16. Facing Fear