To put it down - To drop it. - To land on earth (as in an airplane landing.) These are some of the definitions of luo di. But, in the grand scheme of Daoist cultivation, it becomes " The willingness to let go." You have only to look at the "fall" season. Observe nature. Trees are willing to let go of their leaves as part of their own preparation for winter's conservation of energy. So, it is with one's own preparation for winter - or in a more subtle text - one's own pr

30 years ago, a women's group asked me what my story was. It was a foreign concept to me, and I didn't know how to answer. Then these women shared "their" stories: again, and again and again in the many years that I knew them. Then, when teaching at a cancer "support" group, I saw, once again, women "sharing" their stories which all began with "I am a cancer survivor". Are you the story you tell yourself? Do you want that to be the limiting factor of you? Do you want

Falling into Good Habits A reprint from my article for DaoUSA.org . It is autumn. The weather is changing. Birds are migrating. Hmmm. ...