Taoism

  • It’s on days like these that Taoism helps

        My son, Aidan, wound up in the hospital today with a fever of 107.8.  Yes, that’s correct, 107.8.  It was the highest temperature several of the doctors we encountered along the way had ever seen.  It threw his… Continue reading

  • It’s Chuang Tzu – Even Though They Don’t Mention Him

         James Reston, Jr. has a new book out, Fragile Innocence, which is reviewed in today’s Washington Post.  I am working from the review here, but it rings very familiar to me: the story of a father discovering and… Continue reading

  • More Tao and the Market

        Dror Poleg checks in from Beijing with a comment on an earlier post.  I am copying it below because it continues the conversation about Taoism and capitalism in a provocative way: Capitalism in its pure form is the… Continue reading