Our show opens with a discussion about the perils of the persistent business pervasive in modern society. Later, Dr. Carl Totton discusses the Taoist principal of wu-wei or the “art of non-doing.” The show ends with a break down of Chapter Two of the Tao Te Ching, a rumination on appreciating polarity and mutual arising.
Hey, so I just now found your show. And on episode 2 there was a part that stuck out that kind of bothered me. Dr. Totton said that the only way to appreciate the good in this world there has to be the bad. That you appreciate more of what you have by seeing the bad. What I don’t understand is this, why not put a stop to the bad? Why can’t we see the bad, appreciate what we have, and at the same time they to change the bad that we see into something good? Maybe I’m just confusing myself but the way I interpreted what was said was there’s no point in trying to change what we define as bad because good and bad will always manifest itself through our own conscious. Can you please help me out here I’m so confused, haha.
Bobby, If there was no bad, you would find lesser good as bad. Bad things that happen in this world help you appreciate the good that you have. You can avoid doing the things that are bad in your mind however nature and life will provide you with enough events that you find awful and yhe one way to be at peace is accepting.