The Rambling Taoist

A lot of people -- from both sides of the aisle -- are livid with the President because he has thus far refused to condemn Nazis and far ri...

I am NOT an early morning person! Never have been. These days 8 am is when I tend to roll out of bed. This morning, however, I was up...

For years, I swore I would never open a Twitter account.  For the most part, I think the Twitter world is insipid.  Why waste one's tim...

As I near my 60th birthday, I am still amazed at the impoliteness of some people.  A recent situation illustrates this frustration to the m...

I had to go back to the radio station -- KOSW -- this early morning because of an internet streaming problem.  In trying to run down the pr...

The bad person is the resource of the good person. ~ from Verse 27 of the Tao Te Ching (Derek Lin translation) ~ We have a friend here ...

I didn't want to move to Ocean Shores -- my wife wasn't too thrilled with it either.  But this was how the cards fell.   We hav...

Gosh, it's been a long time since I've posted anything.  In fact, I posted nary a thing throughout the entirety of 2016!! One o...

I have been wanting to get back to offering a few posts from time to time, but I never seem to get around to it.  One of the issues has bee...

Our dear friend Scott Bradley -- the modern day alter ego of Zhuangzi -- has done two momentous things lately.  First, he's published a...

Here's a great article posted on AlterNet. How Big Business Invented the Theology of 'Christian Libertarianism' and the Gosp...

Monday, January 12, typically would have been a good day for my dad. That night the Oregon Ducks played The Ohio State Buckeyes for the NCA...

The main reason I haven't posted to this blog in quite a while is illustrated below. Here is a clip of the morning radio show on KOSW-L...

Scott Bradley The Master said, 'Tseng-tzu, I have one thread running through my Way.' When the Master went out the disciples asked...

Trey Smith Yesterday, our apartment complex was assaulted -- yes, assaulted! -- by something far worse than locusts or the plague. We wer...

Scott Bradley There are several instances in the Analects when Confucius or one of his disciples tells us what is "the single thread...

Trey Smith For 3 months, KOSW-LP was my second home. Then I was gone for about 2 1/2 weeks. I thought this experiment was over and finis...

Scott Bradley Man is able to enlarge the Way, it is not that the Way enlarges man. ( Analects 15/29) This celebrated quote from Confucius...

Scott Bradley In his discussion of de in Confucius, Graham points out that he "even" uses the term wu wei , "not-doing...

Scott Bradley The little word de ( te ), best known as part of the title of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), has presented translators with...