The Taoist Trader: Let Your Mind Flow Free
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 45) What’s perfectly whole seems flawed, but you can use it forever. What’s perfectly full seems empty, but you can’t use it up. True straightness looks crooked. Great skill...
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Tao Te Ching (Chapter 46) When the world practices Tao, horses fertilize the fields. When the world ignores Tao, horses are bred for war. There is no greater calamity than desire, no greater curse...
View ArticleThe Taoist Trader: The Market Flirts with You
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 47) Without going outside one can know the whole world Without looking out the window one can see the ways of Heaven The farther one goes the less one knows Thus the Sage does...
View ArticleThe Taoist Trader: Empty your Cup
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 48) Learning consists of filling; Following the Tao consists of emptying. So the sage does less and less until nothing is done. When things are doing themselves, nothing is left...
View ArticleThe Taoist Trader: Love the Market as Yourself
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 49) We hold no fixed opinions. Our hearts are therefore open to the hearts of all. We extend kindness to the kind and unkind alike. Thus kindness becomes our very nature. We...
View ArticleThe Taoist Trader: Death Cannot Enter
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 50) Again and again Men come in with birth and go out with death One in three are followers of life One in three are followers of death And those just passing from life to death...
View ArticleThe Taoist Trader: The Tao Teaches Trading
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 51) The Tao expresses itself In each and every being. Its very presence nurtures us. We are shaped and protected by it in the living of our lives. Therefore each and every being...
View ArticleThe Taoist Trader: Luminous Trading
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 52) That which creates the universe is the Mother of the world By knowing the Mother one knows her children By knowing her children one comes to know her Such is their unity that...
View ArticleThe Taoist Trader: Wall Street Psychopathy
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 53) The path of the Tao is easy to follow. Only a little wisdom is needed to walk its ancient and constant way. But people are easily lured from the safe and the certain To the...
View ArticleThe Taoist Trader: Looking Inside
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 54) Whoever is planted in the Tao will not be rooted up. Whoever embraces the Tao will not slip away. Her name will be held in honor from generation to generation. Let the Tao...
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