I can’t remember if my last big shift in thinking came when I first read the Tao, or when I read The Truth Is Stranger Than It Used To Be. They were certainly the last two books to really mess with my head, in a good way. Actually, no, Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland was, but that was more of an inspiration than a paradigm shift…

Anyway, reading the Tao (specifically this translation- though I really didn’t like the commentary in it… partisan and petty, in direct constrast to the main text!) caused a sea-change in much of my thinking, confirmed much of what I was doing as a teacher, and gave stronger impetus to many other fledgling ideas about pedagogy and the world in general.

So, when the lovely Nick Fitzsimons set up a Posterous account to post the 81 stanzas of the Tao across the last 81 days of the ’00s, I started reading it again. And here I am, sat on a train, being reminded again of its timeless radical wisdom, reading words that make sense of so much of the nonsense of the world.

Highly recommended. head over to http://taoaday.posterous.com/ to read more. Take your time, read one a day, and perhaps read it 3 or 4 times during the day. Much deep goodness is to be found

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Every now and then I take moment to scan some of my fav blogs. Steve Lawson's is probably at the tippy top of that list, being strikingly relevant in almost all aspects of what he writes and talks about. I found myself at first surprised (wow - cool!) and then, NOT so surprised (....of course...) to find a post about the "Tao Te Ching", Lao Tzu's immortal treatise on Life and the Nature Of Things at the top of Steve's page. I keep many translations on hand (the most recent one I've obtained is from Element Books/Sacred Arts), and it has been an indispensable companion to my in my life's journey. A most welcome sight, in this electronic world. Smiles, Steve. :)