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.
70 episodes transcribedWelcome back to Daily Wisdom.In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu says that the heavy is the root of the light, and stillness is the master of restlessness.I...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, we are staying close to the world of emotions. Yesterday, we looked at the idea that an emotion is not an enem...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, I would like us to stay close to the world of emotions, to understand them with more tenderness and more clari...
Maybe you know this feeling. The feeling of being capable, but not rooted. Needed, but not fully alive. Active, but not placed. It is possible to do m...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu says that those who know others are wise, but those who know themselves are enlightened.I ha...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.There is also a kind of chasing that does not really bring us closer to life. It moves us, but it does not nourish us. It...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.Something light touches us, and a deeper sound begins. The slight coldness in someone’s voice may touch a memory of love...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.The present moment does not ask you to give up your dreams. It does not ask you to forget your responsibilities. It does...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.This final week, I would like us to look beneath the surface of some of our most familiar movements: the desire for more,...
How to recognize true intuition and let it become clear.More resources:Free resources, books and more on https://wordsoftaoism.com/...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.Approval does not always look dramatic. Often, it happens in small movements: We hide an opinion because it might make th...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.You are at the gathering, and everyone seems lit from within by the occasion, and you are smiling in the right places whi...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.This week, we are staying close to the way we relate to ourselves from the inside. In the last reflection, we spoke about...
Welcome back to daily wisdom. There is a story I imagine often. A small bird lives in a garden, and every morning, before singing, it looks toward the...
Welcome back to Daily Wisdom.This week, we begin a new movement in the series. After looking at control, pressure, acceptance, responsibility, and the...
There is a force in us without which nothing would ever be done. It moves us to begin, to build, to love, to hope. It carries us out ahead of ourselve...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.A person who admits they do not know yet is not necessarily lost. They may simply be refusing to lie to themselves for th...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.A tree can offer shade, fruit, and shelter. Birds can rest in its branches. People can sit beneath it. The tree gives gen...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.Acceptance can sound like a cold word when the heart is still hurting. It can sound as if we are being asked to approve o...
Welcome back to daily wisdom.This week, I would like us to follow a simple thread: the places in our lives where care slowly becomes tension.Because m...
