Healing The World (How to Surf the Tao Lesson 12)

The last in our 12-part series takes us to the question of whether we can heal the world. If we can help heal the world—even as we can’t control it or remake it according to our own clever designs—then how is this to be accomplished by a Taosurfer? We go long because this is our concluding discussion of all we’ve been wrestling with throughout the season and we don’t want to leave anything out. Turns out part of the plan of action for the Tao Te Ching is a form of anarchism. We’ll explain a bit about what that misunderstood meant for the ancient Chinese context.

Chapters discussed: 81, 29,  27, 49 and 54

This is our season finale. Stay tuned as we will be announcing the theme of our next season soon. 

Topics Mentioned:

• Disneyland pictures in front of flower Mickey.

• Boondockers Welcome

• Harvest Hosts

• Apophatic Theology

• Anarchism

• Christian Anarchy

• Taoist Anarchists and Nihilists

• John A Rapp, Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China

• Mudras

• Mantras

• Immanuel Kant on race

• Death Doulas AKA End of Life Doulas discussed in this AP story.

• Corey Farr and his podcast A Christian Reads the Tao Te Ching

• Tikkun Olam

• Anabaptists AKA Radical Reformers

• Bruno Latour and Flat Ontology

• Libertarian Socialism

• Matthew 20:25—So Jesus called them together and said, "You know that those regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

• 1 Corinthians 12:12-27, where Paul discusses the parts of the body.