Ta-Wan

Here you will find an index of the writings of Ta-Wan, one of the three chief scribes at The Rambling Taoists.

May 2013
The Duality of Things and the Claims of One Thing or Another

April 2013
So This Thing Called Tao: What Is It?

March 2013
God Did It

February 2013
Life Is All for the Little Toe ♦ Of Course:

January 2013
Just This Unknowable Way ♦ Ice Decides to Melt ♦ How to Align with Tao or Become Enlightened ♦ Forget What Is, Was, Could or Should Be

December 2012
You’re At Very Best a Fiction

November 2012
Nothingness?

October 2012
Fighting Authority ♦ Yin and Yang Discovered By Science! ♦ Wouldn’t It Be Nice If Everything Was Perfect? ♦ Don’t Mind Dao ♦ Your Life in the Flow, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11 & Part 12 ♦ Rambling Stiles ♦ The Hidden Magic ♦ Spiritual Atheist 3.0 ♦ Absolute Disproof of God ♦ Absolute Disproof of Free Will

September 2012
I Salute You, Your Emptiness ♦ Book 3 ♦ Do You Know You’re Going the Speed of Light? ♦ The Way To Truth Is To Boldly Cast Away the False ♦ As the River ♦ From 11 Dimensional String Theory to Zero Dimensional Tao ♦ What They Came to Know ♦ Wu uuuu wwei heeeey ♦ Day Off Work ♦ This Is Not the Way! ♦ The Te of the Tao

August 2012
Looking Back to An Unknown Future ♦ Scientifically on the Path to Tao ♦ The Zero Universe ♦ Stab Your Own Heart ♦

July 2012
I Need Faith! ♦ Song of Tao ♦ Your Outer Voice ♦ Enlightened Times Have Always Been ♦ Flow ♦ Tao Books: From Tao to Psychology

June 2012
My Friend Who Is Wrong, and My Grandma ♦ Futuristic Human Needs ♦ Speaking of Tao ♦ The Answers Are Not in the Mind ♦ Congratu-mutilations ♦ Nursing the Children into War ♦ Essentially Identical, Conceptually Distinct ♦ Do You Know? ♦ Aliens Have Landed ♦ Faith and Belief

May 2012
Good News! We Worked Out a New Way ♦ Pointing to True Peace

April 2012
God ♦ Moral Compass ♦ untitled 2005 ♦ Ever Been Bored Here on Earth? ♦ The Human Need for a Guide ♦ Killing Pride

February 2012
Religion or Contentment ♦ Questions ♦ Human Error ♦ Wu Wu

January 2012
Speculative Reasons Evolution Would Be Against Free Will ♦ Just a Thought or Two Today ♦ Vinegar ♦ We Meat Again ♦ The Wei Against the Grain ♦ What Else Is on Your Mind? ♦ Idealism & Taoism ♦ All Is Well — The Mantra of Good Governance ♦ Not You again? ♦ Free Speech Is Over — The Rambling Taoists Are Closed ♦ Imagine John Lennon Always at Peace? ♦ Taoist Has No Life to Lose ♦ Objections to Charity ♦ Work in the Modern World ♦ Youngsters Picking Through the Big questions in Life ♦ News 2013 ♦ United Diversity, Pride ♦ In the Forest ♦ The Most Suitable Philosophy… ♦ Leadership

December 2011
Disclaimer and Footnote ♦ Flowing On ♦ Multiplicity and Change ♦ Sleep ♦ Working on Conflict ♦ Right with Tao ♦ Slicing a Blade ♦ In Response to the Status Quo ♦ Who Whistled? ♦ Here’s Looking at Me Kid ♦ Wisdom Is Like So Sucky ♦ Learning to Learn ♦ Recognitivenlightenment ♦ Veiled Undressing ♦ Beyond Religion – The Dalai Lama ♦ Atheism on Christmas Day ♦ Nothing to Say on the Subject ♦ Tao Essence and Zen Rot ♦ Who’s Winning? ♦ Guilt! ♦ Guilt…Ends ♦ Sensitive to Free Will ♦ Hello Mr. Nailed Together Wood

November 2011
Pop!, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 & Part 10 ♦ In response to Andrew Cohen’s New Book EVOLUTIONARY ENLIGHTENMENT: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening ♦ Learning to Speak in the Negative Person ♦ The Symbiosis of Dolby Stereo Brains ♦ There Is Only Oneness, Tao ♦ Mind Over (Doesn’t) Matter ♦ “I Think Therefore I Am,” Should Just of Been “I Am” ♦ Because & Defect ♦ Someone Is Wrong!! ♦ The Tao That Can Be Taoed ♦ Dogen, Chang Tzu & Confucius Entered a Bar ♦ Watching the Tao Dance + Have You Ever Done a Thing? I & II ♦ Being Pleasure ♦ Where Were You Before Your Birth? ♦ The Universe and Tao Have No Form ♦ A Curved Answer About Time ♦ The Information Singularity — LOVE ♦ Unlimited Surprise ♦ How To Sniff Air & Navigate Life ♦ Stillness in Flow ♦ Unknowing ♦ Are We There Yet? ♦ A Tao of Not Thinking ♦ 4 Lines of Separation ♦ The Taoist Philosopher Sitting Alone Embracing All… ♦ ReReReincarnation ♦ Rear View Mirror

October 2011
Happy To Have No Choice ♦ The Compassionate Model of Happiness ♦ Is Your Solution a Reaction? ♦ Your Sadness or Happiness Contribute to the World ♦ Tao With No Limit ♦ Why I Love to Read Scott Bradley, Our Modern Taoist Classic ♦ Evolution ♦ Material Excess ♦ Optimism and Simplicity ♦ Chocolate Tzu ♦ The Appeal of String Theory to a Taoist ♦ Free Will? ♦ Common Potato ♦ Normal Is Great ♦ Consciousness is the only known thing and the answer too ♦ Have you ever seen an Ego? ♦ Arcs over dimensions ♦ Defusing the Self ♦ Self Inquiry ♦ To See Or Not To See