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Chapter 15 – Tao Te Ching
This chapter shows the ancient sages living with subtlety, patience, and depth. Through Internal Family Systems (IFS), their qualities become a portrait of Self-led presence—careful, flexible, and still enough for clarity to rise without force.
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Tao Te Ching - Chapter 14
Tao Te Ching Chapter 14 describes the Tao as invisible, inaudible, and intangible — a mystery you cannot grasp but can live from. Through Internal Family Systems (IFS), this chapter becomes a journey inward, showing how Self-energy mirrors the Tao’s subtle presence and how parts soften when held by something deeper. With line-by-line commentary and parts-aware insight, this chapter reveals how the ancient Tao guides modern inner work.
7 min read
Tao Te Ching - Chapter 13
Laozi teaches that praise and blame shake our parts, but not the Self. Through the IFS lens, Chapter 13 shows how ego creates fear while Self offers calm, steady, spacious leadership.
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Chapter 12 – Tao Te Ching
Laozi teaches that overstimulation blinds the senses and scatters the heart. Through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, this chapter reveals how protectors chase intensity to avoid discomfort, while Self restores clarity, sensitivity, and inner quiet. True peace comes not from outer stimulation but from choosing depth over distraction.
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Tao Te Ching - Chapter 11
Laozi teaches that true usefulness comes from emptiness — the open space within and around all things. Through the IFS lens, this chapter reveals how inner spaciousness allows parts to unblend and Self to lead with clarity, calm, and creativity.
4 min read
Tao Te Ching — Chapter 10
Chapter 10 of the Tao Te Ching, through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, explores the art of staying unified inside—keeping soul and Self connected, softening effort, clearing the inner mirror, and acting without ego. Laozi shows how profound virtue arises when protectors relax, Self leads gently, and action flows without control, comparison, or force.
4 min read
Tao Te Ching - Chapter 8
Chapter 8 teaches that the highest goodness moves like water—humble, gentle, and without competition. Through the IFS lens, this softness mirrors Self-energy: steady, receptive, and naturally aligned, allowing protectors to soften and life to flow with ease.
4 min read
Tao Te Ching - Chapter 7
Laozi teaches that Heaven and Earth endure because they do not live for themselves. Through IFS, Chapter 7 shows how protectors soften when ego relaxes, allowing Self to lead with steadiness, humility, and quiet fulfillment.
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Tao Te Ching - Chapter 6
Laozi describes the Tao as an endless, receptive depth—the mysterious feminine. Through IFS, Chapter 6 shows Self as the same quiet, nurturing source that never runs dry and restores the system through softness, openness, and calm presence.
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Chapter 3 – Tao Te Ching
Laozi teaches that striving, desire, and ambition confuse the heart, while simplicity restores balance. Through IFS, Chapter 3 shows how parts calm when ego-softening replaces grasping, allowing Self to lead with quiet, grounded ease.
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Chapter 2 – Tao Te Ching
Laozi teaches that opposites create each other, and suffering comes from clinging to one side. Through IFS, Chapter 2 reveals how parts polarize while Self stays centered, acting with effortless alignment.
5 min read
Tao Te Ching — Chapter 9
The Verse Fill a cup to the brim —and it spills. Sharpen a blade too fine —and it breaks. Amass treasure, invite theft.Cling to praise, court collapse. Complete something…and it begins to rot. This is the way of the world.Step back before the fall.Retire before the flame gutters. This is the Tao. Essence — What Laozi Is Actually Saying Laozi isn’t warning you.He’s holding you —just before the edge. He’s not moralizing.He’s murmuring a truthyou already know in your bones: Too
Tao Te Ching – Chapter 5
The Verse Heaven and Earth are not kind.They treat the ten thousand things like straw dogs. The sage is not kind.He treats the people like straw dogs. Between Heaven and Earth,is not the space like a bellows? Empty—yet never exhausted.The more it moves, the more it yields. Too many words lead to silence.Hold to the center. Essence — What Laozi Is Actually Saying This chapter is not cold.It ’s not cruel.But it is cutting. Laozi is naming a reality most of us spend our lives t
In Dreamland Zen Story VERSION 1
Today we enter… In Dreamland. This story doesn’t shout.It wanders.Between sleep and waking.Between illusion… and the soft ache of truth. Let’s walk inside the dream together. Let the Story Unfold A monk once came to the Zen master Gasan and said,“Last night I dreamed I was a butterfly.” Gasan looked at him and asked, “Were you a man dreaming of being a butterfly…or are you now a butterfly dreaming you are a man?” Sit With the Meaning It’s a question with no answer.Not becaus
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