Latest Dao de jing Podcast Episodes
Eternal Life: Union with God or Communion with God?
The Tao of Christ - July 13, 2024 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsThis episode comes in response to several comments I have received over the last few months from people struggling with the difference between the traditional idea of eternal life as endless individual existence in fellowship with God and nondual union with God which is often imagined as absorpt...
Perfect Peace
The Tao of Christ - July 06, 2024 11:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsNondual awareness is the peace that surpasses human understanding. To quote the apostle Paul, “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” In this episode I use the story of Jesus stilling the storm as an illustration of the ...
I am You and You are Me
The Tao of Christ - June 22, 2024 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsThe title of this episode “I am You and You are Me” sounds like I am quoting the lyrics to John Lennon’s song “I am the Walrus”: "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." There is also the rap by Zico with that title “I am you, You are Me.” But I am not quoting song lyrics h...
Psychedelics and Nondual Awareness
The Tao of Christ - June 12, 2024 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn this episode today I will explore how the use of psychedelic drugs relate to nondual awareness.
Everything is Perfect Just the Way It Is
The Tao of Christ - June 01, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsThis episode was prompted by an email that I received from a listener He wrote: My question is this: If there is no puppeteer, why do I see circumstances that line up in ways that there is no possibility that they are random? I see this on a regular basis and can give you instance after instanc...
No Self, No God, No Problem
The Tao of Christ - May 18, 2024 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsRecently I have been talking about how nonduality is integrated into and expressed in everyday life. In the past couple of episodes I have been addressing moral and political decisions, such as politics and war. Specifically I have talked about the Gaza war and dualistic American politics of rig...
Nonduality in an Age of Outrage
The Tao of Christ - May 08, 2024 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsWe live in an age of outrage. Everyone is outraged about something or other. The most recent outrage is over the war in Gaza. Students on college campuses across our country and around the world are calling attention the unending killing going on in Gaza. That is causing outrage by counter prote...
The God of Gaza
The Tao of Christ - April 13, 2024 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsChristian Nonduality and the Biblical God Addressing Religious Compatibility and Violence Marshall addressed concerns about the compatibility of non-duality with the Old Testament God's violent nature, specifically in light of the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Marshall clarified that true Judaism,...
Pain and Nonduality
The Tao of Christ - March 24, 2024 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsI got an email from a man who is in constant chronic pain. He asked me to do an episode on the topic. I talked about the OT Book of Job and the Problem of Suffering a while back, but this man was talking about something less philosophical and more practical. How do we deal with pain, especially ...
The Holy Spirit of Nonduality
The Tao of Christ - March 06, 2024 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsThis episode is about the Holy Spirit and how this important Christian belief and experience fits into nondual Christianity.
Nondual Guide to American Politics
The Tao of Christ - February 17, 2024 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn this episode I talk about how to approach American politics - and especially the 2024 election - from a nondual perceptive as nondual awareness.
Nondual Repentance
The Tao of Christ - February 03, 2024 12:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsI have talked about repentance before in a nondual context, but I have not dedicated an entire episode to it. So today I am. The call to repent is normally talked about in moral and ethical terms, but that is just the surface of it. When followed to its end repentance is a path to spiritual awak...
Apocalypse Now
The Tao of Christ - January 27, 2024 12:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn this episode I explain how to interpret the apocalyptic passages of the New Testament from a nondual perspective.
The Forgiveness of Nonduality
The Tao of Christ - January 20, 2024 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn this episode I explain how the traditional Christian teaching on the forgiveness of sins is insufficient and how complete forgiveness is an expression of Christian nonduality.
Becoming Child Again
The Tao of Christ - January 13, 2024 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn Jesus’ teaching children represented the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Becoming like children is a metaphor that used for what in other spiritual traditions is called enlightenment, a...
From Self-Obsession to Self-Realization
The Tao of Christ - January 01, 2024 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn this episode I show how we can move from the Western cult of the self to Jesus’ teaching of Self-Realization.
Abiding in Nondual Awareness
The Tao of Christ - December 23, 2023 12:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsToday I am going to get back to basics. I am going to describe how to abide in nondual awareness, as much as that can be described. If I were to use Christian language I would call this dwelling in the Kingdom of God or living in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is the term Jesus use...
The Nondual Word of God
The Tao of Christ - December 16, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsThe phrase “Word of God” is used a lot by Christians. I hear it in church every Sunday. When Christians talk about the Word of God, they are usually referring to the Christian scriptures. In this episode today I am proposing another way of understanding the term – a more inclusive use of the ter...
Have a Nondual Christmas
The Tao of Christ - November 29, 2023 12:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn this episode I interpret the biblical Christmas stories in a nondual manner.
The Stories We Tell
The Tao of Christ - November 18, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsHumans are a story-telling species. You could say that story-telling is what distinguishes us from all other creatures on this planet. Families tell family stories to strengthen their family bonds. Nations and political parties tell stories that distinguish from others. Religions tell stories of...
Brokenness and Wholeness
The Tao of Christ - November 04, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsThere is a common misunderstanding about nondual awareness, spiritual awakening, liberation, self-realization, enlightenment or whatever you want to call it. The misunderstanding is that it is cure-all for everything that ails us. That the culmination of the spiritual search is a cessation of a...
Nonduality and the News
The Tao of Christ - October 28, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsFor many people the news is stressful. I read a TIME magazine article the other day entitled “Where to Seek Help if the Israel-Hamas War is Impacting Your Mental Health.” There are regular senseless mass shootings. A big issue is political discord in American politics. Political opinions affe...
Get Out of Your Head
The Tao of Christ - October 14, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn this episode I ponder the inability of me - or anyone for that matter - to communicate the nature and the experience of this unitive reality that Jesus called the Kingdom of God, and which most of us simply call God, the Divine, the One, or Reality.
The Antidote for Fear-based Religion
The Tao of Christ - September 23, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsWhen I look at Christianity I see lots of fear. It seems to have become a religion based on fear. Preachers tell us to be afraid, be very afraid. Fear God and fear punishment for sin and fear Judgment Day and most of all fear going to hell. Fire and brimstone preachers have learned that fear kee...
Nondual Interpretation of Scripture
The Tao of Christ - September 09, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsI have been receiving quite a few questions recently asking me how I would interpret certain passages in the Christian scriptures. People quote verses that seem to contradict what I am saying, and they want me to explain them. For example I recently said in an episode that heaven is not a plac...
The Closing Vision of Siddhartha
The Tao of Christ - September 02, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsI read Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha back in the 60’s when I was in college. It was a rite of passage back then. But I did not really know experientially what it was all about until I was in my sixties. Later in this episode I am going to take a look the closing vision in Hermann Hesse’s book Siddh...
Hitler in Heaven
The Tao of Christ - August 26, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsDuring the summer when the weather is good, we attend an outdoor worship service held by a Congregational church in a neighboring town. In her sermon last Sunday the pastor talked about her ordination exam five years ago. In preparation for the ordination council she invited some clergy friends ...
Jesus Was Not a Christian
The Tao of Christ - August 19, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsRecently I have been thinking about Jesus and his relationship to Christianity. I came across a quote that stated that Jesus was not a Christian. Here is the whole statement: “Buddha was not a Buddhist. Jesus was not a Christian. Muhammad was not a Muslim. They were teachers who taught love. Lov...
Nondual Discernment
The Tao of Christ - July 22, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsThis episode explores the final section of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus ends his longest and most famous teaching by warning us to be careful of those who would misinterpret his teachings to promote their own agenda. In other words he advises us to use discernment when it comes to spiritual te...
How to Enter the Kingdom of God
The Tao of Christ - July 15, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 87 ratingsIn the last part of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus focuses on how to enter the Kingdom of God. From a Buddhist perspective this question would be expressed as how to enter Nirvana or how to be enlightened. The Hindu might ask how to be liberated. Different spiritual traditions have different term...
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