HeyJaredThe Dao of Nature & The Nature of Dao Podcast
A podcast about the intersection of Daoism and Nature where I'll be sharing my thoughts on these and related topics, informed by my training as a Nature & Forest Therapy Guide and an ordained 22nd generation Quanzhen Longmen Daoist Priest. gregoryripley.substack.com
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Episode 13: The Sigh & The Laughter (opens the original)
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This essay was prompted by a return trip to the North Shore of Lake Superior this summer, where standing at the shore of a lake that refuses to behave like a lake set me thinking about the two faces of a frame-dissolving encounter with mystery. The essay braids two classical Chinese chengyu — 望洋興嘆, gazing at the ocean and sighing, and 劉海戲蟾, Liu Hai plays with the toad — with two different settings: the North Shore and a kiva in Frijoles Canyon at Bandelier National Monument. The Zhuangzi’s Autum
Episode 12: Continuous As If Ever-Present (opens the original)
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What does it mean for the Dao to be present in the world not as a dramatic force but as something barely perceptible, fine as silk thread, continuous as breath, hovering at the threshold between presence and absence? The Daode Jing offers a phrase for this: 綿綿若存, continuous as if ever-present. This essay follows that phrase through Daode Jing Chapter 6, the neidan tradition, and the short but concentrated Xinyin Miaojing—asking what it means to cultivate an attention fine enough to receive what
Episode Eleven: Never Separate From This (opens the original)
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This essay was unplanned. The series began as two pieces, one on 玄 (xuan) as the mystery at the heart of Daoist thought, and one tracing the compound 幽玄 (youxuan) on its journey from Chinese philosophy and aesthetics to Japan, where it became the celebrated concept of yugen. That second essay ended with a line from Liu Yiming’s commentary on the Huangting Jing (Yellow Court Scripture) that I couldn’t quite leave behind, so here we are with part three. That said, I should probably just add the ca
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