CALL ME MAGGIE

Dao de Jing

Personal translations & commentaries on Lao tze’s timeless classic

  • Recalling This Beautiful Order

    In attempting to philosophize as a way of life, I have often “translated” many terms/concepts into a single notion that would comprehend the nuances of diverse sages across time & cultures. Whether I succeed is another story entirely. A particularly… Continue reading

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

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    In harmony? No need for sages. In discord? Needing sages. Heed their answers & not the question? Needing scholars. Adopt scholarship? Tyranny of authority. Source: asianart.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • Dreamstate: Holographic & Multidimensional « Thoughts of a Taoist Babe

    Interesting take on things from an artist… and some stunning art as well. For quite awhile now, I have been going on and on about my vivid dreams and the process of dreaming, ad nauseum.  Not only have I given… Continue reading

    Dreamstate: Holographic & Multidimensional « Thoughts of a Taoist Babe

  • Drinking alone with the Moon…

    Drinking Alone with the Moon From a pot of wine among the flowers I drank alone.There was no one with me — Till raising my cup, I ask the bright moon To bring me my shadow and make us three.… Continue reading

  • be happy, do nothing… « lederr

    From Lederr‘s blog… Canadian social psychologist Jamie Gruman is proposing a new way of achieving nirvana: Do nothing. Instead, live in the moment and embrace the “serene and contented acceptance of life as it is, with no ambitions of acquisition,… Continue reading

  • The Method of the Moon Bridge

    The Moon was one of humankind’s first measures for time. Thus, to this day the word “month” recalls that original measurement. “Moon” itself probably arises from a variation of the Indo-European term “me-” which is also the root for “to… Continue reading

  • Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People

    Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People. Continue reading

  • Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier

    Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier.   Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120811

    If seeking ethics, embrace fortitude; faith, compassion; wisdom, openness; divinity, mercy. But in seeking wholeness, embrace nothing. Let-go. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120804

    Fairness is but one facet of Justice…     Obsess on this alone & you forget such alternatives as Mercifulness without which Justice becomes certain tyranny. Continue reading

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    Wander not in paranoid conspiracies for position nor trample others in phantasms of privilege. Sow universal misery; reap the whirlwind. Continue reading

  • Doing nothing, all is done

    From Acharya Pahndeepah’s own translation of the Dao de Jing. Verse 47 Never venturing beyond the door, the world is always comprehended. Never peering outside the window, the Beautiful Order is already envisioned. The farther afield, the more uncanny. Thus… Continue reading