The Kongdan Foundation

03/08/2026

Living content within the Tao.

Lao Tzu at the entrance of the Taoist Cave adjacent to the Wuyou Taoist Temple and Giant Leshan Buddha south of Chengdu. Taoism and Lao Tzu Lao Tzu' Tao Te Ching ends with asking us tp be sincere with our words. To remain true to what you have learned with the Tao at the helm. That we are not to be seen as enough to be showy or become seen as beautiful....

Lao Tzu at the entrance of the Taoist Cave adjacent to the Wuyou Taoist Temple and Giant Leshan Buddha south of Chengdu. Taoism and Lao Tzu Lao Tzu’ Tao Te Ching ends with asking us tp be si…

03/08/2026

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Introduction to the I Ching and Taoism A remembering of origins, awakening, and the return to the Way There are moments in a life when something ancient stirs, when a voice long forgotten rises again, and when the path ahead becomes illuminated not by ambition, but by memory. My own journey into Taoism and the I Ching began this way—quietly, unexpectedly, and with a force that would shape the next thirty years of my life....

Introduction to the I Ching and Taoism A remembering of origins, awakening, and the return to the Way There are moments in a life when something ancient stirs, when a voice long forgotten rises aga…

03/06/2026

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03/06/2026

Living as Spirit in Utter Spontaneity.

The Mountains Disappearing Into Spirit on East Peak at Huashan Mountain 华山东峰上，群山隐入灵境 Epilogue 82 – Living as Spirit in Utter Spontaneity. Opening Movement — The Three Anchors Simplicity, detachment, and virtue — the three anchors that through the ages have separated the sage from the rest of the world. Emulating the Tao, he recalls what came first, what remains empty, and what is forever still....

The Mountains Disappearing Into Spirit on East Peak at Huashan Mountain 华山东峰上，群山隐入灵境 Epilogue 82 – Living as Spirit in Utter Spontaneity. Opening Movement — The Three Anchors Simplicity, detachmen…

03/06/2026

Above it all Lao Tzu was the teacher.

Taoism and Lao Tzu Lao Tzu has seen too many worlds built on striving, cleverness, and forgetting. Verse 80 is his vision of what humanity looks like when we remember who we are as spirit. This is not a call to return to the past, but an invitation to rise into the next level of enfoldment — the unfolding of our highest selves....

Taoism and Lao Tzu Lao Tzu has seen too many worlds built on striving, cleverness, and forgetting. Verse 80 is his vision of what humanity looks like when we remember who we are as spirit. This is …

03/05/2026

Being present at Destiny’s Table

Taoism and Lao Tzu Sitting here again, even from half a world away, I return to the place where the wanderer in me has always felt most at home. This table in People’s Park in Chengdu has always been a doorway I step through in meditation several times a week. It is where I listen, where I breathe, and where the movement of the Tao settles into something I can understand....

Taoism and Lao Tzu Sitting here again, even from half a world away, I return to the place where the wanderer in me has always felt most at home. This table in People’s Park in Chengdu has always be…

03/05/2026

Follow the Way of Heaven

Taoism and Lao Tzu The method I’ve used throughout this revised commentary draws from three sources: Red Pine’s received text, Henricks’ Ma‑wang‑tui manuscripts, and my own version written twenty‑five years ago. Each offers a word, a phrase, or a movement that points toward the flavor Lao Tzu intended. By listening across them, the essence of what Lao would say rises, and my present voice finishes what wants to be spoken....

Taoism and Lao Tzu The method I’ve used throughout this revised commentary draws from three sources: Red Pine’s received text, Henricks’ Ma‑wang‑tui manuscripts, and my own version written twenty‑f…

03/05/2026

The importance of aligning with spirit.

Taoism and Lao Tzu To be likened to the sage of antiquity, to the sage of old. To look inward to self-preservation of actions depicted by others as you are seen only as embracing simplicity, stilling your mind, and dissolving desires. Looking to the origin of all things that will illuminate things to w**d out what is not in keeping with the Tao....

Taoism and Lao Tzu To be likened to the sage of antiquity, to the sage of old. To look inward to self-preservation of actions depicted by others as you are seen only as embracing simplicity, stilli…

03/03/2026

Following the Way to virtue.

Taoism and Lao Tzu Acknowledging history and what comes before us as our memories unfold of cause and effect are often in keeping with an awakening of our own spirit. Of knowing that if certain things occur, surely future events can be foretold. Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching lays out clearly the road or path of virtue that we are meant to follow with everyone finding their own way....

Taoism and Lao Tzu Acknowledging history and what comes before us as our memories unfold of cause and effect are often in keeping with an awakening of our own spirit. Of knowing that if certain thi…

03/01/2026

Knowing Heaven as the conduit for living.

Taoism and Lao Tzu I think any study of life and our endeavors, eventually leads to what we know as death and what if anything comes next. Lao Tzu had been experiencing how we perceive both his entire life. He had seen how our decisions and experiences enabled us to see both clearly. How cause and effect dictate what follows....

Taoism and Lao Tzu I think any study of life and our endeavors, eventually leads to what we know as death and what if anything comes next. Lao Tzu had been experiencing how we perceive both his ent…

02/26/2026

Acceding to Heaven’s wishes.

Did you ever think all you ever wanted to do was play your own music? Or plant your own flowers? That you wanted to contribute something to the world. That the key was learning to take what was in you to the outside and see if your tune would play. That's what writing is for me. Like landing on the moon as your life's ambition and saying, …...

Did you ever think all you ever wanted to do was play your own music? Or plant your own flowers? That you wanted to contribute something to the world. That the key was learning to take what was in …

02/25/2026

How I got here from there…

I think one of the things I try to do as though I'm "living the Tao" by telling my own story. From my first encounter with Taoism and Chuang, Lieh, and Lao in December 1993 when I began writing my own version of the I Ching, there was a sense that I wasn't "outside of it". My writing was autobiographical from the start....

I think one of the things I try to do as though I’m “living the Tao” by telling my own story. From my first encounter with Taoism and Chuang, Lieh, and Lao in December 1993 when I…