The old texts, taken slowly and told honestly.
Documentaries on the Tao Te Ching, Zhuangzi and the people who carried the Tao through history. Every claim checked against the texts, and every doubt said out loud.
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34:01Wu Wei: The Teaching That Breaks the Moment You Try to Teach It
46:41Wu Wei Has a Body: The Physical Side of Effortless Action
21:48Confucius Met This Man Three Times. Never Recovered.
18:12When the Mongol Empire Forced Two Taoists to Debate to the Death
31:11Buddhism vs Taoism: The Night Zen Was Born
32:27Heidegger Sat With a Chinese Scholar for Months. Then He Gave Up on the Tao Te Ching.
Short books for practice, not just reading.
The Gap
A field guide to living the wisdom you already understand.
You already know why you do the thing you do. You still do it. The Gap is a short, honest guide to that distance, built around Wu Wei, the Taoist practice of unforced action.
- Why most people get stuck in one of two traps, and which one is yours
- Wu Wei, Te, Pu and Ziran, retold as practical tools
- Four short daily practices. Pick one, not all four
- How Taoism, Stoicism, Jungian psychology and Zen answer the same question
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Where other channels repeat the basic teachings, Daily Tao Wisdom goes into the primary texts, the real history and close reading.
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Popular fake Lao Tzu quotes are named as fake. Doubtful lines are cut.
Wrong? We say so
When an earlier film got something wrong, the correction names it plainly.
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