Tao Te Ching: Offering a Way Forward
A weekly discussion, contemplation and meditation based on The Tao Te Ching.
Facilitated by Ronald E. Moor
$10 per session
If you are interested in being a part of a weekly, online, drop in community exploring life’s mysteries, consider joining The Tao Te Ching, Offering a Way Forward.
The Tao first emerged in a time of great chaos in ancient China 2,500 years ago. It is not a religion but a philosophy of being calling us to live in harmony with all of creation. It is “the way less traveled” that has re-emerged in our time as an antidote to the great challenges we are facing.
There are 81 short, pithy sayings to the Tao, an instruction booklet to a more simple and harmonious life. Every Wednesday morning from 10:15 – Noon CT, Ron facilitates a gathering with lively discussion and silent meditation with our focus on the verse for that week. Unfailingly, we find ourselves immersed in a deep inquiry of who we are and how we live.
To receive the Weekly Tao verse by email, contact Ron at ronemoor@gmail.com. It’s free, and you’ll get the verse every week, even if you don’t attend a session.
To join the weekly discussion and meditation, register through the button below. The Zoom Link, two additional translations, and a circle graphic with the names of those registered is sent out the Tuesday afternoon before the session. If you register by 2pm each Tuesday we will receive your name in time to get you added to the circle graphic.
For a truly excellent introduction to The Tao, here is a link to an article by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Free of conditioned thinking,
we experience our true nature.
Caught in conditioned thinking,
we experience only who we think we are.
Yet both our conditioned nature
and our true nature are part of life itself.
Our conditioned experience of living
is a gate way to unconditional life.
Tao 1, translation by William Martin
“It is the profound modesty of the language that offers what so many people for so many centuries have found in this book: a pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part.”
~Ursula K Le Guin
Ron Moor
Facilitator
Ron Moor has been a student of The Tao Te Ching for over 25 years. He has led a weekly Taoist discussion and meditation group of The Tao for over 20 years. Since 1985 Ron has served as an ordained interfaith minister, a hands-on energy practitioner, personal growth teacher and spiritual guide. He has served three spiritual communities, most recently Spirit United in St. Paul, Minnesota. He currently is a member of the Thiensville Health Alliance in Thiensville, Wisconsin. theshelteringoak.net