I realized that, when I first began highlighting links in the right sidebar, I had already amassed a large number of sites. This means that all the new ones added since around January have been featured here, but most of the older ones gathered during the first 3 1/2 years have never been featured. To rectify this situation, I will write a series of posts that will provide information on those sites and blogs long neglected.
A Barefoot Man
The Spirit of abarefootman.co.uk is treading lightly on this earth. It is moving quietly, carefully, savouring the sensations of each step. It is drinking in the textures that lie beneath our feet.
Here you cannot help but be aware of your mistakes. If you fail to see a thorn and tread on it too firmly, you may hurt yourself. This is a reminder that you need to pay more attention, that you need to be more sensitive to your environment and to your actions. Perhaps you may even fall down like you did as a child when you were first learning to walk. Making mistakes is how we learn. We try something, and if it doesn’t work, it leads us closer to what does.
Being open to the world is being vulnerable to it. That might seem like too much for some. We are so tenderfooted after all these years protecting ourselves. But true strength can only be gained when we cast off our protective layers, when we stand upon our own two feet, touching the world directly as we did when we came into it. When we rely upon our real selves instead of the shell we have created, we can develop our true strength, a strength that comes not from destruction and domination, but from harmony and co-creation. We can learn it is our nature to have a flexibility that would have us mould ourselves around the world, and not the other way around.
Here you cannot help but be aware of your mistakes. If you fail to see a thorn and tread on it too firmly, you may hurt yourself. This is a reminder that you need to pay more attention, that you need to be more sensitive to your environment and to your actions. Perhaps you may even fall down like you did as a child when you were first learning to walk. Making mistakes is how we learn. We try something, and if it doesn’t work, it leads us closer to what does.
Being open to the world is being vulnerable to it. That might seem like too much for some. We are so tenderfooted after all these years protecting ourselves. But true strength can only be gained when we cast off our protective layers, when we stand upon our own two feet, touching the world directly as we did when we came into it. When we rely upon our real selves instead of the shell we have created, we can develop our true strength, a strength that comes not from destruction and domination, but from harmony and co-creation. We can learn it is our nature to have a flexibility that would have us mould ourselves around the world, and not the other way around.
A Human Perspective
Poetry, Tao centered, and other babbles.
A Musing Taoist
I'm not sure what this blog stands for any more. It died once and I'm working on bringing it back to life, one post at a time. [Note: The last entry on this blog is from November 2007. It is listed here because the archives both are interesting and illuminating.]
An Uncarved Blog
Looking for an answer to life's most burning digital and spiritual questions? Searching for a way to untangle the knot? Curious about the digital bridge between the broken lines of the I-Ching and the binary code of your computer? Or the link between productivity and breathing with your feet? Irreverent, irrelevant and irrepressible, The Uncarved Blog promises nothing other than to leave things as they are. Sort of.
Changing Places
Changing Places is about the process of creating and coping with change. The focus changes as my interests do. My current interests include political change, spiritual change, business change management processes, economic change, cultural change, artistic change, Tao Te Ching (The Way of Change), seasonal changes, interpersonal and relationship change, and lifestyle change (aging, transitions, changing jobs, moving, etc.) It is also my personal blog, so my own life changes get top billing.
Diary of a Daoist Hermit
Many years ago I was initiated into Daoism by a teacher who came from China. I've spent many years learning since then and would like to introduce anyone interested into my odd little life trying to practice this ancient wisdom tradition in a modern urban setting.
Ed Lau's Blog
Another blog that hasn't been updated for several months, but it's listed here because it provides great information about Taoism.
Green Paths in the Valley
Mike Garofalo writes about gardening, seasons, nature, rural living, lore, wisdom and the Eight Ways.
Mr Sage's Philosophical Taoist Website
When aol-hometown shutdown its site, Mr. Sage's wondrous website disappeared! It has been brought back to life via the web archives.
Personal Tao
A breeze, dragon and cat living as a Taoist Master. I make up my own questions and answers to any survey or test taken, while still using the number 2 pencil to color in the dots. All in all it's most fun to be infrared and ultraviolet in a world of color. Author of A Personal Tao. [Note: Casey used to live in Olympia, WA, but sacrificed creature comforts to move to some place called Hawaii.]
Thanks for the shout out!
ReplyDeleteNot much going on with me this week, I'm on jury duty. Feel free to browse through past postings, though. My blog is searchable so you can search for any special topics you're interested in...
Thank you for having such a wonderful blog to shout out to!
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