The Modern Taoist

Kit Mann
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The Modern Taoist Podcast explores how Taoist wisdom lives in today’s world. Hosted by Kit Mann of Dao Ananda, each weekly episode brings Taoism out of the abstract and into daily practice — one step, one breath at a time. From Qigong and meditation to the challenges of modern life, this podcast offers a grounded look at modern Taoism in America. It’s not about passive philosophy — it’s about clarity, balance, and the small practices that shape a meaningful life. 🎙 New episodes every Tuesday morning. 👉 Learn more: https://www.daoananda.org/the-modern-taoist

  1. Weekend Check-In - When Protection Becomes Possession

    vor 1 Tag

    Weekend Check-In - When Protection Becomes Possession

    This weekend, I share a very personal experience that led me to wrestle with a much bigger question: What is the difference between protecting something and trying to possess it? It's a subtle distinction, but one that touches every part of our lives, from relationships and careers to our identities and expectations. In this Weekend Check-In, we explore why the Tao doesn't ask us to stop caring. It simply invites us to care without clinging. If you've ever struggled to let go, feared losing something important, or wondered why attachment creates so much suffering, this conversation is for you.

    13 Min.
  2. When The World is On Fire - Be The Rain

    vor 4 Tagen

    When The World is On Fire - Be The Rain

    When the World Is on Fire, Be the Rain Some seasons of life don't arrive one thing at a time. The relationship breaks, the job disappears, the family tips into crisis — and suddenly everything is burning at once. The instinct is to fight harder, clamp down, match the energy of the chaos with more energy. Taoism suggests something different. Something that takes more courage than it looks like from the outside. This episode is about what it actually means to be the rain in a burning season. Not indifference. Not rising above it. Not performing composure for the benefit of people who find your struggle uncomfortable. But staying, in whatever small increment is available, more thoroughly yourself than the circumstances are making easy — and why that, in the end, is the only thing that actually works. Also: a listener question from Aoife in Dublin, who lost her marriage, her job, and has a seriously ill mother, all at once — and is exhausted by being told to be strong.

    51 Min.
  3. Weekend Check-in: Why Stillness Feels Like Doing Nothing

    26. Juni

    Weekend Check-in: Why Stillness Feels Like Doing Nothing

    A listener wrote in this week with something a lot of people are feeling but haven't said out loud: they've been trying to do the things the practice asks — the stillness, the presence, the slowing down — and it's boring. The mind races. Nothing lands. The quiet that's supposed to feel like relief feels like a room with no windows and no particular reason to stay in it. This check-in takes that frustration seriously. Why does the removal of stimulation feel like deprivation rather than relief? Why does the Western nervous system push back so hard against the very thing every contemplative tradition in human history has pointed toward? And why does trying harder at stillness make it worse rather than better? The racing mind is not the problem. The racing mind is the symptom. And understanding what it's a symptom of is considerably more useful than trying to stop it.

    20 Min.
  4. Flexibility - The Strength in Yielding

    23. Juni

    Flexibility - The Strength in Yielding

    The Strength in Yielding Most people would say they're flexible. And then life actually asks them to be. This episode examines the gap between believing you're adaptable and genuinely being so — and why that gap matters more than most people realise. Drawing on one of Taoism's most quietly radical observations, that the living are soft and yielding while the dead are rigid and stiff, it traces where rigidity actually lives in a human life. Not in the obvious places. In the small daily moments where the previously decided quietly wins over the actually present. From the oak that breaks in the storm to the bamboo that bends to the ground and returns, from the external circumstances that calcify through inertia to the interior beliefs that stopped being examined years ago — this episode asks what it would mean to know the difference between what genuinely needs protecting and what is simply familiar. Also in this episode: how to talk about Taoism to people in your life without it getting strange — and a deceptively simple assignment that tells you more about your own rigidity than most extended self-examination will.

    52 Min.
  5. Weekend Check-In - The Over Organized Life

    19. Juni

    Weekend Check-In - The Over Organized Life

    The Organized Life Is Not the Tao There's an entire industry built on the promise that better systems will finally make life feel manageable. More structure, more optimization, the right routine — and yet the feeling of control it's supposed to produce stays just out of reach. This weekend check-in looks at the compulsion to organize everything through a Taoist lens: why the rigid tree snaps while the bamboo bends, the difference between structure that genuinely serves a life and structure a life has started serving instead, and what wu wei actually asks of us when it comes to control. This isn't an argument for chaos. It's an invitation to notice which of your systems are working for you — and which ones you're now working for.

    15 Min.
  6. The Closest Distance

    16. Juni

    The Closest Distance

    The Closest Distance The person sitting across from you at dinner. The one who has seen you at your worst and stayed. The one whose breathing you know, whose moods you can read from across a room before a word is said. This episode is about what it actually means to be present with that person — and how often, in our closest relationships, we're doing something that looks like presence but is really just a very convincing performance of it. From the trap of certainty in long relationships, to the difference between genuinely listening and simply waiting for your turn to speak, to what Taoist wu wei actually looks like in a marriage or a friendship — this episode explores the quiet, daily practice of actually seeing the people we love, rather than the idea of them we've been carrying around. Also in this episode: a listener question about staying connected to a partner who doesn't share your practice — and whether that's even a problem at all.

    44 Min.
  7. Weekend Check-in: The Little Things are the Big Things

    12. Juni

    Weekend Check-in: The Little Things are the Big Things

    The Little Things Are the Big Things Most people are waiting for their life to get interesting. The trip that hasn't happened yet. The version of things that arrives once the difficult patch is over. The moment when everything settles enough to actually enjoy what is here. Meanwhile, Tuesday keeps happening. And the coffee that was genuinely good this morning. And the brief, unplanned moment of laughter with someone you love. This weekend check-in is about the return of attention to what is already here — and why Taoism has always understood that the small moments are not the waiting room for the big ones. They are the thing itself. This week's full episode of The Modern Taoist goes deeper — into our closest relationships, and what genuine presence with the person we love actually looks and feels like. Make sure you're following so you don't miss it.

    13 Min.
  8. The Storm You're Standing In

    9. Juni

    The Storm You're Standing In

    When life gets genuinely hard, the advice to "be present" can feel less like wisdom and more like an instruction to sit quietly in pain. This episode is for the people who are currently inside something difficult — not after it, during it — and finding the usual answers insufficient. Using a quietly profound passage from Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore as its starting point, this episode explores why the instinct to search for the exit is so deeply human, what presence actually means when the present moment is the source of the pain, and what the storm is doing to you that ease never could. Taoism doesn't promise a way out. But it does offer something real: a different quality of company for the journey through. Also in this episode: a listener question about what Kit's daily life actually looks like as someone who practices Taoism — and whether the practice has made any visible difference at al

    48 Min.
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The Modern Taoist Podcast explores how Taoist wisdom lives in today’s world. Hosted by Kit Mann of Dao Ananda, each weekly episode brings Taoism out of the abstract and into daily practice — one step, one breath at a time. From Qigong and meditation to the challenges of modern life, this podcast offers a grounded look at modern Taoism in America. It’s not about passive philosophy — it’s about clarity, balance, and the small practices that shape a meaningful life. 🎙 New episodes every Tuesday morning. 👉 Learn more: https://www.daoananda.org/the-modern-taoist

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  • Erstellt von
    Kit Mann
  • Jahre aktiv
    2025 - 2026
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    64
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