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Finding Your Original Self

When do we give life our all? Often, we give this 100% only when other people are watching and possibly judging us. Indeed, this is one key function of teachers and coaches; they watch and evaluate us. This tendency to “live” for others (1) is our innate social nature, while our true character only reveals […]

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Apr 2, 2013 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: Buddha, cultural baggage, Eden, social self, tribal, well being

The Trans Tribal Tao

Much in the Taoist worldview marches to the beat of a different drummer. So much so that if one has to ask “How so?”, one may not be genuinely ready to know how so. Anyway… Marching to the beat of a different drummer often boils down to feeling, acting and/or thinking outside-the-box, which can at […]

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Feb 18, 2012 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: civilization, Electric Revolution, religion, symptoms point of view, trans-tribal, tribal, what is tao

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