![]() ![]() ![]() Your average Western thought leader will not accept a mantra such as this one. How can anyone journey through their life without running any interference? What does this look like? In fact, a lifestyle like this one seems to go directly against human nature for every reason you may be thinking. Pardon the sarcasm, but you see where I’m going with this. Maybe if I wander around aimlessly, nature will simply guide me to a successful, bountiful life. Please hold, let me cancel all my plans for the next week, stop applying for jobs, and take a trip to the garden behind my house. We we were meant to go with the flow and accept that whatever’s meant to be will be the end. In other words, this ancient Chinese practice advocates for the notion that everything happens for a reason. “Tao” (pronounced Dao) literally means “the way.” ![]() This mantra believes that a happy life can be achieved by following the course of natural events without interfering or overthinking. ![]() This is how I feel about Taoism - a Chinese philosophy that advocates for a life of utter simplicity and noninterference. Intro to Taoism and How it’s Counterintuitive to Human NatureĮvery here and there we find ourselves bumping into foreign concepts that could be either one of two things – extremely simple, or, entirely beyond our realm of understanding. ![]()
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