Finding Tao everywhere stops being a surprise. It never stops being funny.
On adjusting to living together, and the door that brought us closer.
Does growth have to be painful? Not the way we were told.
Primary Choices is a body of writing about the turnings: the passages that change people, and the choices people make inside them. A birth, a wedding, a first job. A diagnosis, a divorce, a death. Some arrive on the best day of a life and some on the worst, and most of them without any warning at all.
I spent about thirty years in business before this. Corporate training, executive roles, a software company I built and sold. I am also an ordained Taoist monk, 22nd generation.
I came to it the long way around: raised Jewish, then five years of intensive one-on-one training with a Taoist priest of the Longmen and Zhengyi lineages, who ordained me. I kept studying with him until he passed on in 2022.
I am not an academic scholar of Taoism. I don’t read classical Chinese. What I have is about twenty years inside these teachings and a life that needed them.
You can grab time on my calendar. By phone. No intake, no assessment, no fee.
You don’t have to be in the middle of something to use it. Some people call because they have decided something and haven’t said it out loud yet. Others want to say the thing once, to someone who won’t have to live with the answer. Some are in the middle of the worst of it.
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