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Life Wisdom is a podcast inspired by Taoist teachings, offering guidance on mindfulness and inner peace. Each episode features meditative storytelling, simple practices, and deep reflections to help you reconnect with the present moment. Brought to you by Substack bestseller author Chen Li, from the blog Words of Taoism.
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Watch what the mind does with happiness. It rarely just takes it. I want to be careful here, because it would be easy to describe all that as a failure of presence and leave you feeling you have been doing joy incorrectly. That is not what is happening. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
I want to talk about the story we tell ourselves when something ends. And about the fact that almost all of us have only one story available, and it is a story about failure. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Most of us have promised ourselves, at some point, that we would live more simply. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Today I'd like to talk with you about something almost everyone treats as a weakness, and which I think has been badly misunderstood: the fact that we care, often a great deal, about what other people think of us. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Somewhere along the way, most of us start keeping score of what passes between us and other people. And in that accounting, a gift or a compliment shows up as a debt. Debts are uncomfortable, so we settle them fast. Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Today, we're going to look at a reversal at the heart of how effort works: the fact that some things retreat from us precisely because we are reaching for them. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
The question I would like us to sit with is a simple one, and I suspect it has visited almost everyone listening. Why does the life we did not live always seem to have gone better than the one we are living? More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Today we're going to sit with a frustration that lives underneath a great many abandoned projects and unfinished changes, the frustration of things that simply take time to ripen. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
What do you reach for when things get difficult? We all have our tools and we carry them everywhere. But most of us have never once asked whether they actually work, because we are usually too busy using them to evaluate them. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
All week we have been pulling the plug on the things that keep us scattered and half-present. Today we finally turn to what all that unplugging was for, to the body, the world, and the people it was meant to hand back to us, and to how we actually find our way home to them. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Never in human history have we been this connected, able to reach almost anyone, instantly, at any hour, and loneliness has climbed steadily right alongside all that connection. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Your attention is not only wandering off on its own. It is being taken. There is now an entire economy built on capturing it, staffed by some of the most talented people alive, and its whole purpose is to fragment your focus and hold it, because your attention is the product being bought and sold. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Today we go after one of the buried ones, the fear that keeps us checking, reaching, and saying yes when we mean no: the fear of missing out, and what it is really about. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Over the next five days we are going to talk about disconnection, not as a punishment or a digital cleanse, but as a lost art worth recovering, the ability to unplug from the hundred streams that pull at us and reconnect to what actually matters. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
We are told, constantly, that trusting yourself is a feeling. That confident people simply have more of it, some inner certainty the rest of us lack. And so we try to feel our way into it. We repeat encouraging phrases. We try to believe in ourselves harder. And it does not hold, because it is built on nothing, and some honest part of us knows it is built on nothing. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. The life in front of you unfolds in real time, once, and a great deal of the time we are not there for it, off in the future, or the past, or the endless commentary running in the head. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. We carry a low, constant discomfort with the void, and we have arranged much of modern life so that we never quite have to feel it. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. We tend to treat ordinary life as the waiting room for the real thing. Real life, we imagine, is somewhere further on, in the breakthrough or the trip or the rare conversation that will finally wake us up, and the ordinary is just the grey stretch we cross to get there. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom. To want less is to step off an escalator that everyone around you is riding upward, to risk looking unambitious, to stop measuring your worth by how much you have managed to gather. More resources: Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/ My Substack Blog: https://taoismteachings.substack.com/ Music I use, as a playlist: https://tinyurl.com/spotifyzenplaylist
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