Acceding to Heaven’s wishes.

Did you ever think all you ever wanted to do was play your own music? Or plant your own flowers? That you wanted to contribute something to the community or world. That the key was learning to take what was playing in you to the outside and see if your tune would play. That’s what writing is for me. Like landing on the moon as your life’s ambition and saying, “Tranquility base here the eagle has landed”. Or Michaelangelo knowing that David was inside the block of marble just waiting to get out and he was the one to do it. There…

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How I got here from there…

I think one of the things I try to do as though I’m “living the Tao” by telling my own story. From my first encounter with Taoism and Chuang, Lieh, and Lao in December 1993 when I began writing my own version of the I Ching, there was a sense that I wasn’t “outside of it”. My writing was autobiographical from the start. It was like they were looking for me and the found me in the Brown University bookstore in Providence, Rhode Island, where I had never been before or since.  It was as though one of the books…

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