Weekend Check-In: The Tao is Everywhere. Just Look

The Tao Is Already There — You Just Have to Look

It's in the weed pushing through the sidewalk crack. It's in the dog who is completely inside the joy of this particular walk with no memory of yesterday's and no plan for tomorrow's. It's in song lyrics you've known for twenty years that suddenly sound like something Lao Tzu would have written if he'd had a record deal.

This weekend, the practice is simple. Go through your day and notice what's already demonstrating everything the Tao Te Ching spent eighty-one chapters trying to describe — in nature, in music, in film, in the ordinary Tuesday world around you.

No analysis required. Just attention.

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