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The Modern Taoist Podcast explores how Taoist wisdom lives in today’s world. Hosted by Kit Mann of Dao Ananda, each weekly episode brings Taoism out of the abstract and into daily practice — one step, one breath at a time.From Qigong and meditation to the challenges of modern…
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Navigating Bad News (opens the original)
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Navigating Bad News Bad news does not wait for a good time. It arrives in grocery stores and parking lots and at the dinner table in the middle of an otherwise ordinary Tuesday. And the world rearranges itself, and the person has to find a way to keep moving inside the rearranged world. In this episode, Kit Mann looks at what actually happens when bad news arrives — the phased processing, the identity shift that nobody talks about, the mode that takes over before the feeling does. And at what th
The Tao Te Now - Chapter 3 (opens the original)
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The Tao Te Now — Chapter 3 Chapter 3 is fifteen lines. Lao Tzu covers overvaluing, distrust, installed ambition, the confusion that arrives when certainty collapses, and wu wei. In that order. Without wasting a word. In this episode, Kit Mann works through the chapter line by line — the neighborhood where the house has become a status symbol and what that produces, the parent who manages every decision and the adult that creates, the person who reaches the destination they were told to want and
Weekend Check-In: Changes Are Coming (opens the original)
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You Knew This Was Coming Change arrived this week for someone listening to this. It always does. And the response, almost universally, is some form of: I never saw that coming. In this weekend check-in, Kit Mann makes the case that most of the time, on some level, the person did see it coming. The job had been unstable for months. The relationship had been signaling. The body had been sending information that was not being processed. The change was not sudden. The awareness of it was sudden. And
You Are Not Required To Be Pure (opens the original)
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You Are Not Required to Be Pure Someone looked across a table recently and said: I thought you were supposed to be some kind of guru or something. That sentence is the whole of this episode. There is a picture of what a spiritually serious person looks like. Measured. Elevated. Careful with language. Free from the coarser textures of ordinary life. Brad Warner is a Zen priest who plays in punk bands. Noah Levine teaches Buddhist dharma and built a recovery community rooted in punk culture. Both
Tao Te Now - Chapter 2 (opens the original)
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The Tao Te Now — Chapter 2 Chapter 2 follows immediately from where Chapter 1 left off, and it wastes no time. The moment you decide what is beautiful, something else becomes ugly. The moment you decide what is good, something else becomes bad. Lao Tzu is not making a point about subjectivity. He is making a point about what judgment does — how the act of naming a standard simultaneously creates the gap between the standard and everything that does not meet it. And how that gap becomes the prima
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