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🌿 Daily Tao Reflection 39 drops in 1 hour (10:00 AM).
Harmony and Hierarchy — on humility, chain of command, and the dog who barked at his reflection.
Sound & Sip: Common — “Cold Blooded.”
👉 Read at 10:00 AM: https://open.substack.com/pub/wittgensteinsmonster/p/daily-tao-reflection-39?r=5zs6u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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🌀 Daily Tao Reflection 38 — The Power of Not Trying

“Virtue isn’t what we claim — it’s what we live.”

A reflection on authenticity, Aristotle’s golden mean, and the Daoist true form that needs no striving.

🌅 Available October 15th, 2025 at 10 AM ET
✨ Read on → https://open.substack.com/pub/wittgensteinsmonster/p/daily-tao-reflection-38?r=5zs6u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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⚡ Daily Tao Reflection 36 — The Expansion Before the Shrink

“If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand.”

Zeno meets Hendrix. Lao Tzu meets the cosmos.

✨ New reflection drops at 10 AM ET.
🌀 Read on Substack → https://open.substack.com/pub/wittgensteinsmonster/p/daily-tao-reflection-36?r=5zs6u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Daily Tao Reflection 32 — “Even wrestling can be a form of worship.”

The Dao can be smaller than an electron,
yet hold uncountable galaxies.

This one’s about duress, discernment, and divine friction.
🎵 Your Body Is a Wonderland — John Mayer
☕ Water + hot coffee with vanilla syrup and cream

🖼️ Art: Adam and God wrestling in the style of Michelangelo
Read here 👉 https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/daily-tao-reflection-32

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🕊️ Daily Tao Reflection 31: Weapons of the Mind

“Weapons are the tools of fear. A decent man avoids them, except in dire necessity.”

War is old men sending young men to die for problems they didn’t create.
Peace begins when we stop worshipping violence — not just in battle, but in thought.

✍️ Read the full reflection on Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-175610202

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📸 Art by JD Chou: “Trinity Cat” (2012)
Three heads, one body. Red, Blue, and the Void.
Balance fractures. Narratives multiply. And yet… still a cat.

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🎨 Fine Wind, Clear Morning (1830) by Hokusai
Woodblock print of Mount Fuji standing still under a quiet sky.

🪷 That’s the vibe today.

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🌀 Daily Tao Reflection 14

“Look, and it can’t be seen.
Listen, and it can’t be heard.
Reach, and it can’t be grasped.”

The Tao doesn’t hide. It just can’t be held.
Not a form. Not a sound. Not a thing.
But you can be it.

No beginning. No end.
No image, yet it shapes all images.
No name, yet it names all names.

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“Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.”

Climb or fall, the ladder is shaky.
Stand grounded—stay balanced.

Hope and fear arise from ego.
Lose the self—what’s left to fear?

🌀 See the world as yourself.
🌀 Love it as yourself.
🌀 Care for all things.

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🌀 Daily Tao Reflection #12

Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.

— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 12

This one’s simple:
Too much is too much.
Overthinking dulls clarity.
Overindulgence dulls joy.
Let go. Let it pass. Let it come again.

The truth is often in what we’re still enough to see.

#Tao #TaoTeChing #Mindfulness #Philosophy #Spirituality #DailyTao

Tao Te Ching 11:
We work with being—but it’s non-being we use.
A house is useful because of its empty space.
A marriage is not just two people—but the space between them, the shared vessel they agree to fill.

Today, my baby cousin gets married.
I’m reminded: Love is not a structure—it’s the emptiness that makes the home.

#DailyTao #TaoTeChing #MastodonMorning #WeddingTao #Philosophy

I think that’s the trick, at least.
One box of books at a time.
One toot at a time.
Who am I to question?

The Way unfolds by walking.

#Zhuangzi #Taoism #DailyTao #MovingDay #Mindfulness #WritingLife

Daily Tao Reflection — Chapter 6

“The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible. It gives birth to infinite worlds.”

After writing about my mom yesterday, this hit hard.

I often feel hollow. Like my words don’t quite land.
Yet every morning, I wake up bursting with thoughts.
ADHD? Autism? The Tao?

Emptiness isn’t broken. It’s potential.
Inexhaustibility isn’t chaos. It’s the Way.

I think I am the Tao. Maybe you are too.

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But “non-being” isn’t doing nothing. It’s living aligned with the flow—responding, not controlling. Letting go becomes the truest form of being. And yeah, it doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t need to. That’s the point.

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