Taoist Thoughts

How to Align with Healing

Sometimes, I think of ‘sit behind yourself’ as ‘align with the Tao,’ which is to say the ‘natural order of things,’ or ‘flow.’ Here’s a poem from the Tao-te-Ching that points to what I mean:

We join spikes together in a wheel
But it is the center hole 
That makes the wagon move

We shape clay into a pot
But it is the emptiness inside 
That holds whatever…