The Way of the Tao with Lao Tzu, Day 5 of The Art of Happiness Series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

-- Lao Tzu

Have you found yourself caught up in all the crises and uncertainty of these days? It's high time for some genuine happiness! In this week's series, you'll focus on visualizing the kind of life you'd like to live. In each episode, you'll discover meditation techniques and inspiration from the world's great meditation masters. Your life is worth so much more than the stress and uncertainty of these days.

This is day 4 of a 7-day The Art of Happiness series, episodes 2271-2277. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:

YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE: GO A HAPPINESS QUEST:

Start each day visualizing the kind of accomplishments you want to achieve and the kind of life you'd like to live. To make this week extra meaningful, journal about the kind of life you're creating for yourself.

THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Visualization Day 2: Affirmation Day 3: Breathing Technique Day 4: Mudra Technique Day 5: Chakra Technique Day 6: Layer Meditation Techniques Day 7: Reflection + Introspection SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 2,275 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you to day five of our happiness journey.
0:12.5	How are things coming along for you?
0:15.5	I wonder how you're doing with your challenge.
0:19.5	Your challenge this week is to go on a happiness quest
0:25.0	where you are invited every single morning
0:28.7	or at some point in your day to visualize what you want your life to be like.
0:35.2	How you want to be living your life, who you want to be with,
0:40.2	where you want to be, what you want to be doing.
0:44.2	This is a challenge for you to open up to your inner truth.
0:52.2	In each episode this week, you are meditating with a technique from a world class meditator.
1:01.7	And in today's episode, you are meditating with none other than Lao Tzu.
1:09.7	Lao Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher.
1:15.7	He is considered to be the author, or at least one of the authors of the Tao-deaching.
1:25.2	This is considered to be one of the greatest works ever written.
1:31.2	Lao Tzu is also considered to be the founder of philosophical Taoism
1:37.2	and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions.
1:43.7	He lived during the 6th century and he is considered to be an older peer or an older contemporary
1:52.7	of the great philosopher Confucius.
1:56.7	An interesting aspect of Lao Tzu's life is that he is considered to have worked with the court of the days.
2:06.7	So he had a pretty easy life.
2:11.7	And he left this easy court life because he couldn't stand the corruption he witnessed.
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