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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. Tao Views of the Dow
  5. What’s With All The Hair?
  6. Life Is Struggle, Happiness Is Contentment
  7. Tai Chi Video
  8. Schrödinger’s cat
  9. Seeing the world ‘out there’
  10. Where There’s Passion (fire), There’s Blindness (smoke)
  11. Such Synergy
  12. Mind in Body in Mind in Body…xin
  13. Butterflies have wings; we have minds
  14. Is ‘Free Will’ the Only Option?
  15. Of What Is The Taoist Model Symptomatic?
  16. It Is Spooky
  17. How to Know You’re Happy
  18. Peeking in on Nature’s Hoodwink
  19. The Decider
  20. PS
  21. Do Good Christians Make Good People?
  22. Am I Bored or Just Content?
  23. How do we know what is true?
  24. It’s Like Magic!
  25. Always be a beginner
  26. In praise of kale
  27. King Kiwi
  28. The Gifts Given — Paid In Full
  29. Who’s a Sage?
  30. Family Life
  31. Is Enlightenment Something or ???
  32. The Amazonian ‘Taoists’
  33. “Do you believe in angels?”
  34. Grinding Out Correlations
  35. Can you say what you think?
  36. The Cost of Compassion
  37. Correlation’s ‘Prime Directive’
  38. Religion: The best placebo?
  39. Even a little progress is freedom from fear
  40. Looking Through the Looking Glass
  41. Peaches and Pleasure
  42. Wealth plays out in odd ways
  43. Understanding Understanding
  44. Public Tantrums
  45. Yin Yang, Nature’s Hoodwink
  46. Think what you believe? Believe what you think?
  47. What is ‘the Tao’ actually?
  48. The trick lies in not believing, yet believing
  49. The best tao? (road, way, principle, speak, think)
  50. Right Mindfulness, Attentiveness, and Concentration?
  51. Emotion Clear-cuts Perception
  52. A Taoist Solution to Gay Marriage
  53. Consciousness Physics
  54. The illusion of ‘moment’
  55. The Glare Hides ‘Out There’ From View
  56. Enjoy What You Do — or — Do What You Enjoy?
  57. Cease Treading Water and Just Sink
  58. It was a dark and stormy night…
  59. Are you out of touch with nature?
  60. Swimming Tai Chi Spermatozoa Style
  61. Into the Jungle?
  62. Cave Man Shakuhachi?
  63. You Are Who You Are By Default
  64. Who is Right?
  65. The Theory of God
  66. Just How Big Is The Gap?
  67. An Essential Taoist Secret
  68. A Hypochondriac’s Miracle Cure
  69. Suicide Just Doesn’t Work
  70. Can You Believe What You See?
  71. Innately Ethical
  72. Peeking Through the Covers
  73. The Future is Now!
  74. Just In: We’re All Nuts!
  75. I understand, but do I know?
  76. What Am I Doing?
  77. Of Course It’s Alive!
  78. Sage Advice from Wall Street
  79. Are You A Beliefaholic?
  80. Trust But Verify
  81. Why Do Idiot Savants Run Things?
  82. Keeping Birthday Happy
  83. Are You As Happy As You Should Be?
  84. Teachers and Students
  85. The Future Takes Care Of Itself
  86. Headstands and Apes
  87. Significant Others
  88. A How-To for Extinguishing Self
  89. Self Integrity, Slime, and Karma
  90. Why Not Protest To Raise Taxes?
  91. Know ‘Truth’, Live True
  92. Hunger: A Natural Stimulant
  93. He Who Speaks Does Not Know, but…
  94. Omega-3 and Vitamin D
  95. How the Hoodwink Hook
  96. Bathtub Tai Chi
  97. Odds Are, It’s Wrong
  98. The Worry Gene
  99. SETI Shmeti
  100. Group Think
  101. The Family Purse
  102. Gossip, Hysteria, News
  103. Chairs: One of Our Big Mistakes
  104. We’re Not So Different After All
  105. Learning What You Know
  106. Desire and Contentment
  107. Time’s Arrow
  108. Poor Thais And Rich Swedes
  109. Decisions Decisions
  110. Where Is Freedom?
  111. Thinking clouds consciousness
  112. Balancing Difference With Similarity
  113. Tao As Emergent Property
  114. What Shapes How You Think?
  115. Skullduggery is rampant in nature
  116. Exquisite Balance
  117. The less I think, the more I know
  118. The Spirit of Yoga
  119. Children Know What Adults Forget
  120. Science, Religion, Truth
  121. Change we can believe in?
  122. Fear Is The Bottom Line
  123. A Symptom’s Point Of View
  124. The Nutty Things We Do
  125. John Cleese, A ‘Taoist’?
  126. My Battle With Tobacco
  127. Beyond Spooky
  128. Small ‘t’ Taoists
  129. Love
  130. Wandering Mind Is Unhappy Mind
  131. Illusions, Everywhere I Think
  132. Belief in Nothing is Dangerous
  133. Playing With Dolls
  134. Why God?
  135. Water in Mind
  136. The Story Trumps Truth
  137. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
  138. When Is Attachment Good?
  139. So, You Want Enlightenment, Eh?
  140. Democracy as Myth
  141. He Who Conquers Self
  142. Reward, Fear & Need
  143. Nothing’s Certain but Death and…
  144. Fear Rules
  145. It’s Time We Changed Our Name
  146. The Truth About Lies
  147. It’s Simply Nature’s Way
  148. In Praise Of Nothing
  149. Don’t trust anyone under 60
  150. So, I’d like to ask…
  151. Thoughts and Ducks Quacking
  152. An Improper Sense of Awe
  153. You Know
  154. We!
  155. You Are What You Own
  156. Thou Shalt Not…
  157. 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. The Worrier 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