The Dao of Nature & The Nature of Dao
Gregory RipleyA newsletter about the intersection of Daoism and Nature where I'll be sharing my thoughts on these and related topics, informed by my training as a Nature & Forest Therapy Guide and an ordained 22nd generation Quanzhen Longmen Daoist Priest.
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Episode 16: Mindful of the Dao
Yesterday one of my daughters and I went for a walk in Wolsfeld Woods, land managed by the state of Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources. It’s part of the Scientific and Natural Areas program. Located in the western suburbs of the Tw...
Mindful of the Dao
Yesterday one of my daughters and I went for a walk in Wolsfeld Woods, land managed by the state of Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources. It’s part of the Scientific and Natural Areas program. Located in the western suburbs of the Tw...
Episode 15: The Cry and the Answer
This episode covers a lot of ground. A Minneapolis traffic jam and a century-old lie about who's really in the way, and a Daoist tradition of universal compassion converge on a single question: what does it cost us, individually and collect...
Episode 14: Lose Yourself
Self-cultivation in Daoism carries a built-in paradox: are we returning to something we already are, or refining ourselves into something we’re not yet? The Daode Jing suggests both, but leans towards return, yet the entire tradition of inn...
Episode 13: The Sigh & The Laughter
This essay was prompted by a return trip to the North Shore of Lake Superior this summer, where standing at the shore of a lake that refuses to behave like a lake set me thinking about the two faces of a frame-dissolving encounter with myst...
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22nd Gen Quanzhen Longmen Daoist, Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, and caffeinated old rat. Author of books on Daoism and nature, including An Introduction to Daoism (Shambhala, 2026) The Hundred Remedies of the Tao, and Tao of Sustainability.
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