Life Wisdom is a podcast inspired by Taoist teachings, offering guidance on mindfulness and inner peace. Each episode features meditative storytelling, simple practices, and deep reflections to help you reconnect with the present moment. Brought to you by Substack bestseller author Chen Li, from the blog Words of Taoism.
128 episodes transcribedWhen two people meet for the first time, the first thing they exchange is a name, and the second, almost always, is a question: so, what do you do?Mor...
Zhuangzi tells the story of a man who was so troubled by his own shadow, and by the sound of his own footsteps, that he decided to get away from them...
A life left to itself grows the way an unpruned tree grows, in every direction at once, and it is rarely anyone's fault.More resources:Free resour...
We are very good at giving thanks and surprisingly bad at feeling grateful, and that gap is worth sitting with, because we tend to assume that the wor...
"Alone" is a word we use every day that has changed its meaning under us, and I would like to spend some time with it, because the change ex...
Today I want to talk about timing. About the sense, which some people seem to have and most of us feel we lack, of when to act and when to wait, when...
Being understood is one of the ways we feel close to another person. There is a particular ease in knowing someone can see the intention behind an awk...
Watch what the mind does with happiness. It rarely just takes it.I want to be careful here, because it would be easy to describe all that as a failure...
I want to talk about the story we tell ourselves when something ends. And about the fact that almost all of us have only one story available, and it i...
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.More resources:Free resources, books and more on ...
Most of us have promised ourselves, at some point, that we would live more simply.More resources:Free resources, books and more on http...
Today I'd like to talk with you about something almost everyone treats as a weakness, and which I think has been badly misunderstood: the fact tha...
Somewhere along the way, most of us start keeping score of what passes between us and other people. And in that accounting, a gift or a compliment sho...
Today, we're going to look at a reversal at the heart of how effort works: the fact that some things retreat from us precisely because we are reac...
The question I would like us to sit with is a simple one, and I suspect it has visited almost everyone listening. Why does the life we did not live al...
Today we're going to sit with a frustration that lives underneath a great many abandoned projects and unfinished changes, the frustration of thing...
What do you reach for when things get difficult?We all have our tools and we carry them everywhere. But most of us have never once asked whether they...
All week we have been pulling the plug on the things that keep us scattered and half-present. Today we finally turn to what all that unplugging was fo...
Never in human history have we been this connected, able to reach almost anyone, instantly, at any hour, and loneliness has climbed steadily right alo...
Your attention is not only wandering off on its own. It is being taken. There is now an entire economy built on capturing it, staffed by some of the m...
