Viv's zendao home page

The basic idea of this site was to try to negotiate a path through the jungle of mystique in spiritual and personal growth movements and tell it like it is. It's all common sense in the end, but some of us take a long time to see the obvious, and some of the results of going the long way round can be interesting:-) Ways of putting things get stale as they get established, and this is all stuff we have to come to by ourselves anyway.

logo brings you back here

welcome to zendao General introduction to this site (first uploaded 11 April 2001)

short essays
spiritual or personal?
Two paths pointing opposite ways. How do we deal with that?
does God exist? What kind of a question is that? Can Dao be conscious?
consciousness and hamartia Sin is a concept above and beyond good and evil
letting the ego fade
How not to be too bothered about becoming a saint
taijiquan and qigong The wisdom of the body

Electronic 'Book': A Spiritual Predicament Shorter than a book, longer than an essay, that I've had on the WP for years. Divided into seven Web pages. Written earlier than the other essays, it's the basis of my thinking.

Links and feedback Some of my favourite sites and books, and my email link

 

Sister website
www.happyredbox.com

Low self-esteem and haunted by 'orrible thoughts about yourself? A depression (dysthymia) site explaining how I discovered gentle and permanent liberation after decades of that low-level background misery.
About Copyright: these are my words and I'm proud of them. You're welcome to quote me provided you cite my name and link to this site. Your courtesy in this matter, and an email, would be greatly appreciated: mailto:viv@zendao.net. On the other hand, if you plagiarise and make millions, I'll find an American lawyer to go after you!