The Tao Te Ching Is Meant to Be Lived, Not Read

Dear friends, it is not an overstatement to say that the Taoteching is the most important book that I have ever absorbed. And I mean absorbed, not read. Because I believe books are useless if we don't take the time to fully integrate them into our lives. If we don't create a dialogue with the writer,  question them, wrestle with them. Until eventually we find them worthy to include in our Council of Advisors, writers whose mindset and spirit is so ingrained that we don't just memorize  their words, but embody their being. Filmed in the Austin greenbelt with a fresh copy of Red Pine's translation, a traveler's notebook, and some green tea. This is the start of a multi-month journey through the Taoteching — verse by verse, lived not read. 🙋‍♂️ New to the series? Each video stands alone just as the Tao Te Ching is nonlinear. Pick the Verse that calls you:    • Tao Te Ching ∞ Start Anywhere   🗓️ Live reflection every Sunday:    / @shenghuang   🙅 Btw, after a friend told me how disruptive YouTube Ads were, I turned off Monetization for this and ALL my Tao Te Ching videos to provide a peaceful viewing experience...as it should be. If you'd like to support my work, subscribe to my free newsletter: https://sheng.substack.com/ Live reflections found here:    / @shenghuang   📖 Lao-Tzu's Taoteching, translated by Red Pine: https://amzn.to/4teD7u6 🎬 Instagram for stories and shorts →   / shengsilver   Chapters 00:00 - Why the Taoteching matters now 01:30 - Slow is fast 01:57 - Pick the right translation 03:03 - Absorb, don't memorize 03:27 - Beginner mind 04:03 - How this series works 05:06 - Never skip the intro 06:12 - Tea break 06:30 - Tools: the book, the pen, the notebook 07:18 - Reading Red Pine's introduction 08:42 - The Tao as the dark new moon 11:21 - The moon, the Yin Yang, and us 13:03 - We've lost our connection to nature 14:06 - How I discovered the Taoteching 15:03 - Why poetry, not prose 18:30 - Tao and Te explained 21:27 - Who's Laotzu? The Satoshi Nakamoto analogy 24:00 - Laotzu's shamanistic roots 25:33 - When two giants collide 27:06 - More tea breaks 27:51 - Skating on a frozen lake 28:57 - The first crack in your Matrix