Show 104 — Wu-Chi and Chuang Tzu’s Metamorphosis

So, recently I read a book called The Traditional of Natural Taoism by Jason Gregory, and it was suggested somewhere on Reddit.

So I thought, okay, you know, I'll check that out.

The book was posited as the idea that Western Taoist practitioners or people who are into Western Taoist were missing a very big point.

of what this DAO is all about.

And so I thought, okay, well, I want to learn what most likely my blank spots are and, you know, what I'm missing here.

So I picked up the book and I was a little fearful thinking, you know, I'm going to read this and it's going to be like, you're totally wrong.

And it's going to, you know, flip my whole worldview and be like, erase all the shows.

You know, we were wrong on what this DAO was all about, getting towards it.

But

The Tao wasn't about that.

Yeah, we just got the wrong answer.

You know, but that's a fun episode.

We're like, ah, well, we were wrong.

Okay.

So, but what was interesting is the book was basically about the idea that the true kind of arc of Tao cultivation is removing your identity and getting rid of those blockages to... you know, becoming at one, becoming harmonious with the great Tao.

And I thought, oh, you know what? We've been talking about that on this show.

And on the Tao of Todd, I've talked about that a whole bunch.

So I found the book refreshing.

It was very good for my ego, by the way.

But the identity I was trying to thwart through Taoist practice was uplifted by the fact that I was right in reading this book.

But...

Yeah, that's funny.

Yeah, the irony.

And that is a danger of the spiritual path.

It's like, wow, I'm so connected to the whole universe.