Everyday Tao

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

by Deng Ming-Dao

HarperOne, San Francisco, California, 1996. 272 pp.

This book is divided into one-page lessons, each beginning with a Chinese ideogram. One is named “Drifting,” and compares the sage to a boat which is drifting on the river of Tao.  "Although seemingly aimless and without a care, the sage plots and strategizes in order to ride the Tao, which is constantly changing." (p. 83)

I notice myself trying to cling to this method or that for meditation, often becoming completely distracted or falling asleep. I need to learn to follow what is moving and shifting beneath me in order to fall into the depths of now.

--  reviewed by Wesley Lachman



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