If you are puzzled don’t stare hard While life brings you thrills and excitement, it also dispenses you with a fair share of puzzles and perplexity. You are perplexed when a good friend suddenly gives you a cold shoulder, worried when your boss speaks to you in a tone unusually stern, and anxious when your tour agent fails to pick…
Do not be too eager to judge, as judging is giving an answer and it stops the real answer from unfolding. If Tao is hard to define, so are many things around you. Why are you not as pretty? Why do you have to work doubly hard? Why can’t you be as rich as the…
Set yourself free, the sky is your limit! Set yourself free so that you can unleash the best within you. We are often prisoner of our own mind – which dictates what we can or cannot do. By removing the walls of self-imposed confines, we can realize much of our hidden potential. How do you…
“There are two ways to live your life – one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.” What is the secret of never failing? Everything that we see can be viewed from two perspectives. The first is what it appears to be. The second is what…
Being opposed is only an interplay of yin and yang Do you feel hurt or rejected when what you bring up is opposed? Do you, as a result, stop to hold an opinion of your own and never again to speak out, or even building a wall to shut different opinions out? One way to…
Tao habit: Observe and emulate nature Nature is our best teacher. Observe and emulate how it works. Greet the sunrise, gaze the sunset; smile with blossoming flowers, and play with dancing droplets in the rain. Feel the composure of nature. Nature has no desires of its own, and does not set out to do…
Tao habit – Have you emptied your cup today? A scholar widely known for his keen intellect visits a Tao Master at his humble abode. The Master graciously serves him tea, just like what he does to every visiting guest. While the Master is pouring tea, the scholar talks about Tao. The Master continues pouring, even…
Tao Habit: Understand how nature works; never mind how you want it to work. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Just imagine if you were nature! But you are! We are each given a human nature, and it is there for you to tap. The secret of Tao is to awake the nature…
Tao habit: Secret of Emptiness in a Cup A cup is useful for its emptiness. Without the emptiness, there is no space to hold the drink, making the cup useless as a cup. So while physical existence of the cup is what we see, it is its emptiness that makes the cup useful. A house…
Put Tao to Work – Keep Your Mind Open We live in a world as if there is only black or white. We tend to see things in the absolute terms. In reacting to a statement someone makes, we’d interpret it either as true or false. When we talk about a person, we tend to…
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