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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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 Eleven: Never Separate From This
This essay was unplanned. The series began as two pieces, one on 玄 (xuan) as the mystery at the heart of Daoist thought, and one tracing the compound 幽玄 (youxuan) on its journey from Chinese philosophy and aesthetics to Japan, where it beca...
The Sigh and the Laughter
This essay was prompted by a return trip to the North Shore of Lake Superior, 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 mystery. The ess...
Continuous As If Ever-Present
What does it mean for the Dao to be present in the world not as a dramatic force but as something barely perceptible, fine as silk thread, continuous as breath, hovering at the threshold between presence and absence? The Daode Jing offers a...
Episode 10: From Youxuan to Yugen (and Back Again)
This episode began as a companion to “Xuan: Mystery at the Heart of the Dao.” Where that episode explored xuan as a quality of reality and a contemplative orientation, this one was intended to follow the compound word 幽玄, youxuan, from its...
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Author of An Introduction to Daoism (Shambhala, 2026) The Hundred Remedies of the Tao (Inner Traditions, 2023) and Tao of Sustainability (2016, Three Pines Press). Nature and Forest Therapy Guide and Daoist priest.
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