The important thing to remember about the Tao is that it works.<\/p>\n
You don’t have to take anything on faith. The Tao is a book of advice on how to live a life. I’ve been studying it since the mid 1970’s and I’ve found that as long as I follow the advice in the Tao, I’m happier.<\/p>\n
It’s also a tremendous weight loss book. You’ll find that the weight of other people’s problems, changing the world, competing and comparing just floats away, leaving you light, calm, and relaxed.<\/p>\n
The problem I’m attempting to solve with the book is that the original Tao te Ching was written for the people who were literate at the time it was written: Kings, counselors, rulers, and very wealthy people. I’m “none of the above.”<\/p>\n
Then, Westerners discovered the Tao, and translated it. But, it still wasn’t really talking to me.<\/p>\n
By spending a lot of time with it, I was able to find a way to reframe the book so that it did talk to me. That’s what Everyday Tao te Ching<\/em> is. I took off its jeweled robes, and dressed it in comfy jeans and an old t-shirt. I took the brilliant advice from that book and restated it in a way that my son, my wife-like girlfriend, my friends and I\u2014and hopefully, you\u2014can relate to without too much effort.<\/p>\n Writing this book was the hardest project I’ve ever taken on, and the most fun. I had many hours of enjoyment digging deep into the Tao, trying to isolate the diamond-like beauty in each verse, and then writing an “every day” version of each verse.<\/p>\n When I got the final proof back from my editor, Craig Burdett, with the book formatted and the pictures in place, I realized that I had achieved the author’s dream: I had written a book I’ll enjoy reading.<\/p>\n I hope you enjoy it, too.<\/p>\n I’ll be writing more here about my exploration and adventures with the Tao. Leave a comment. Tell me what you want to hear. When you get your copy of the book, tell me how it affects you and how the Tao operates in your life.<\/p>\n Thanks, The important thing to remember about the Tao is that it works. You don’t have to take anything on faith. The Tao is a book of advice on how to live a life. I’ve been studying it since the mid 1970’s and I’ve found that as long as I follow the advice in the Tao, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydaytaoteching.com\/companion-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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