🌿 New in 1 hour (10:00 AM): Daily Tao Reflection 39 — Harmony and Hierarchy
Humility > ego. Question after performance. Stop barking at reflections.
Sound & Sip: Common — “Cold Blooded.”
Read: open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...
#DailyTao #TaoTeChing #Philosophy #Humility #WorkEthic #Parable
Two shaggy ink-drawn dogs, one large and one small, facing each other on a pale field. Text overlay: “Daily Tao Reflection 39 — Harmony and Hierarchy. Available October 16th, 2025.”
🌿 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 […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
🌀 Daily Tao Reflection 38
The Power of Not Trying
🔔 Releasing October 15 at 10 AM ET
🔗 Read → open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...
#DailyTao #TaoTeChing #Philosophy #Wisdom #Art #Virtue
A monochrome Daoist talismanic chart titled The Chart of True Form of the Topography of the Most High Man-Bird Mountain. Abstract, flowing black lines form organic, mountain-like shapes surrounded by a dense border of ancient Chinese script. The image evokes both map and mystery — a visual meditation on hidden order and the unseen “true form” within all things.
🌀 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 […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
⚡ Daily Tao Reflection 36 — “The Expansion Before the Shrink”
Zeno’s paradox. The Big Crunch.
Hendrix, Lao Tzu, and the Tao breathing through history.
🌄 Live at 10 AM ET → open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...
#DailyTao #Philosophy #Cosmos #Hendrix
Cosmic tree artwork with red energy web surrounding Earth, announcing ‘Daily Tao Reflection 36 — The Expansion Before the Shrink.’ Available October 13 2025.
⚡ 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 → […]
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Quote card on an off-white stone texture with a faint laurel wreath. Black serif text centered: ‘The busy man is least busy with living.’ — Seneca.
Sunday is a day of rest. No Blind Faith or Daily Tao today—both return tomorrow (Mon, Oct 13).
“The busy man is least busy with living.” — Seneca
Enjoy your life and family on this blessed day.
#Sunday #DayOfRest #Seneca #BlindFaith #DailyTao
Ink-and-color landscape scroll with autumn trees, a crane by the water, a solitary figure, and calligraphy seals.
Now live — Daily Tao Reflection 34: Flow Without Claim.
Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#DailyTao #Tao #TaoTeChing #Writing #Substack
Ink-and-color landscape scroll: autumn trees by water, a crane near the shore, a lone robed figure, and calligraphy seals—quiet, contemplative scene.
Now live — Daily Tao Reflection 34: Flow Without Claim.
Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#DailyTao #Tao #TaoTeChing #Writing #Substack
[CW: confession, debt, moral struggle]
Daily Tao Reflection 33 — “Know Thyself” in a Dumpling Shop
Dropping at 10 AM ET. On patience at work, confession, debt honesty, charity over tipping me, and the Tao of timing.
Sound & Sip: Charli XCX “Sympathy is a Knife” + Pibb Extra.
Read […]
Daily Tao Reflection 33 — “Know Thyself” in a Dumpling Shop
Out at 10AM. Sound & Sip: Charli XCX “Sympathy is a Knife” + Pibb Extra.
On work, honesty, debt, and enough-ness.
#DailyTao #TaoTeChing #KnowThyself #AthensGA #Substack
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
🖼️ […]
🌀 Daily Tao Reflection 32 — “Even wrestling can be a form of worship.”
Under duress, the river learns when to stop.
Stillness isn’t death — it’s discernment.
#DailyTao #Philosophy #Theology #Stillness #Reflection #ClintMoore #WordOfTheDay #Duress
🕊️ Daily Tao Reflection 31: Weapons of the Mind
“His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.”
#DailyTao #Pacifism #Philosophy #WarAndPeace #TaoTeChing
🕊️ 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.
✍️ […]
📜 Daily Tao Reflection 30
“I have three treasures. Guard them and keep them safe.”
Mercy. Moderation. Lowliness.
These are not signs of weakness.
These are how you resist the machine.
We haven’t lost — not yet.
But only if we keep hold of the oars.
#DailyTao #AGI #TaoTeChing #Reflection #Philosophy
[CW: tech anxiety, spiritual reflection, poetic theology]
📜 Daily Tao Reflection 30 is live:
“I have three treasures. Guard them and keep them safe.”
Mercy. Moderation. Lowliness.
In a world addicted to dominance and speed, this is your reminder:
you haven’t lost. not yet.
🎧 Sound: “Well […]
New ✍️ Daily Tao Reflection 29
You can’t fix the world — but you can fix a shift, if you build structure, assign roles, and create harmony.
You deserve to thrive in the flow.
#DailyTao #Hospitality #Labor #UnionStrong
✍️ Daily Tao Reflection 29
You can fix the world — but only if you build structure, assign roles based on strengths, and create harmony.
And you can fix a shift…
if you do the same thing.
#DailyTao #Labor #Hospitality #UnionStrong
🛣 New reflection just dropped:
“The Wrong Church at the Right Time”
→ AA meetings, onion metaphors, Polaroids, spiritual memory lapses
→ Tao Te Ching 27 meets Robert Frost meets All-American Rejects
🧵 thread below & full piece here:
#TheWay #DailyTao #SpiritualSkeet
🌌 We are not in the Seventh Cosmos.
We are in the Eighth.
#Tao #MarvelCosmos #Pilgrim #TaoTeChing #FractalCosmology #DailyTao #EternalRecurrence
🌌 We are not in the Seventh Cosmos.
We are in the Eighth.
Not a replacement — a continuation.
Marvel says: "Everything lives. Nothing dies."
Tao says: "The Tao follows only itself."
🪞I say: You are the breath inside the mirror.
🔗 […]
🌄 Daily Tao Reflection 24
“He who rushes ahead doesn’t go far.”
A short walk with Laozi, a detour through the spirit store, and a meditation on why backroads sometimes get you there faster.
🖼️ New abstract art inspired by the winding way.
🔗 https://substack.com/home/post/p-175009412 […]
🌄 New Substack up:
Daily Tao Reflection 23 – When the Clouds Pass
Subtitle: A reflection on reflection through reflection
Featuring:
– Taoism
– ChatGPT as mirror
– Critics & creativity
– Brie Larson truthbomb
"Maybe it wasn’t made for you."
#TaoTeChing #Reflection #AIWriting #BrieLarson #DailyTao
🌄 Daily Tao Reflection 23 is live:
When the Clouds Pass
Subtitle: A reflection on reflection through reflection
Today, I talk about:
– Taoism
– AI as creative mirror
– Surrender
– Critics
– The body, the corpus
– Brie Larson's A Wrinkle in Time quote
Let it rain. Then let the sun shine […]
🖼 Art: Kierkegaard observing Abraham’s sacrifice
Layered with the word WRESTLE
Foreshadowing. Surrender. Grace.
#BlindFaith #Kierkegaard #IsaacLaughs #Jonah210 #RedLetterFaith #GnosticDeist #TimelineHeresy #DailyTao #SouthernVoice
“If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.”
This one’s about crooked roads, empty cups, and trusting the Tao when your plans fall apart.
#DailyTao #TaoTeChing #Spinoza #FaithAndScience #PreparingForBlessing
🖼 Includes alt-text for:
Traditional Chinese ink landscape (Daoist harmony)
Abstract chaos: Remain and Be
⚠️ Content Warning: death/surrender metaphor
👩👧 Mom Warning: safe, even fridge-worthy
#DailyTao #TaoTeChing #Devotional #BaruchSpinoza #Psalm100 #FaithAndScience
🌒 Daily Tao 21
“The Tao is ungraspable. Yet the Master shines.”
I stopped screaming into the void.
I stayed present.
She let me be. And that was enough.
#Tao #ZaoDao #StopScreaming #DailyTao #Poetry #Spirituality
🌒 Daily Tao 21
“The Tao is ungraspable. Yet the Master shines.”
I stopped screaming into the void.
I stayed present.
She let me be. And that was enough.
Full reflection + art by Zao Dao: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/daily-tao-reflection-2...
#Tao #DailyTao #StopScreaming #ZaoDao […]
