The Modern Taoist

Modern Taoist - Trailer

Ancient wisdom. Modern problems. Real life. Join Taoist teacher and veteran broadcaster Kit Mann for The Modern Taoist Podcast, where 2,500 years of Taoist philosophy me

Weekend Check-In - Holiday Prep

Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming, and for a lot of people that means eight weeks of too many events, too much spending, family tension and not enough sleep. In this

What Are You Afraid Of?

What are you afraid of, underneath the spiders and the public speaking? In this episode of The Modern Taoist, Kit Mann looks at four kinds of fear that run people’s lives

Tao Te Now - Chapter 8

In Chapter 8 of the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu uses water to show how the Tao works in everyday life. Water nourishes everything without trying. It settles in the lowest place

Weekend Check-In: Get Grounded

Grounding is having a moment. Wellness culture calls it earthing. NIH researchers have been studying it. And the Taoist tradition has been practicing it for three thousan

Why We Make The Same Mistakes Over and Over

You already know what the pattern is. You’ve probably tried to stop it more than once. The problem isn’t awareness — it’s that awareness alone doesn’t reach the level whe

Tao Te Now - Chapter 7

The Tao Has Nothing at Stake — Chapter 7 of the Tao Te Ching Chapter 7 asks a question most people never think to ask: why does the Tao work the way it does? The answer

Weekend Check-In: Nesting In The Fall

You Are Not Lazy. You Are In October. | The Modern Taoist Weekend Check-In Why do you feel like slowing down when autumn arrives? Why does the couch suddenly look better

Do Taoists Believe In Ghosts?

Every October, people feel it — the sense that the dead are closer than usual. Halloween is just the pop-culture echo of something much older: the recognition that the un

Tao Te Now Chapter 6

The Modern Taoist — Tao Te Now, Chapter 6 Kit Mann on the five lines in the Tao Te Ching that make the biggest claim in the book and then immediately make it personal. C

Weekend Check-In: Time to Rest

The Modern Taoist — Rest Is Not the Same Thing as Stopping Kit Mann on why the weekend you spent doing nothing still left you exhausted on Monday morning. This episode d

Ask Me Anything Vol 5

The Modern Taoist — Ask Me Anything | Episode 5 Kit Mann answers six listener questions in the latest Ask Me Anything episode of The Modern Taoist — covering clinical an

The Tao Te Now - Chapter 5

The Tao Te Now — Chapter 5 Chapter 5 opens with the most uncomfortable claim Lao Tzu has made so far. The Tao does not take sides. It gives birth to both good and evil a

Weekend Check-In - Learning To Notice

In this weekend check-in, Kit Mann makes the case that the noticing practice does not start in the meditation sitting or in the hard conversation. It starts in the moment

Why We Argue

Why do couples argue about the smallest things when the argument is rarely about the thing itself? In this episode of The Modern Taoist, Kit Mann explores the Taoist vie

The Tao Te Now - Chapter 4

The Tao Te Now — Chapter 4 Chapter 4 is eight lines. The shortest chapter yet. And in those eight lines, Lao Tzu makes three of the most striking observations in the ent

Weekend Check In: Time to Meditate

Sit Down Most people who find Taoism do so through the ideas. The philosophy resonates. The way of looking at things shifts. And then they go back to their lives without

Navigating Bad News

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

The Tao Te Now - Chapter 3

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

Weekend Check-In: Changes Are Coming

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