Awakening Together’s President-Minister, Rhoda Makled shares from the Tao Te Ching as they contemplate its principles in order to fully embody them.
The Tao Te Ching (The Way), written by Lao-Tzu (Old Teacher), is a guide to enlightened leadership. While most people believe effective leadership lies in knowledge and power, the Tao teaches it lies in emptiness, stillness, and presence.
Rhoda’s contemplation are based on Regina Dawn Akers’ translation of the Tao Te Ching.
Two additional versions of the Tao were also be contemplated:
Tao Te Ching by Derek Lin
Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 40, “That’s All for Now” 09-01-24 *Last Program
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ “Openness Is the Way” 08-25-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 38 – Conclusion & Ch. 39 – Part 1, 08-11-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 38, Part 4, 08-04-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 38, Part 3, 07-28-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 38, Part 2, 07-14-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 37, Part 3 & Ch. 38, Part 1, 07-07-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 37, Part 2, 06-30-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 37, part 1, 06-23-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 36, part 2, 06-16-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 36 “Practical Paradox” Part 1, 06-02-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 35 “You Are Needed” Part 1, 05-26-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Deeper into Ch. 34 “Treatise on Greatness” 05-12-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Deeper into Ch. 33 “Treatise on Achievement” 04-28-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 32 “War” & Ch. 33 “Treatise on Achievement” 04-21-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 32, “How the World Can Come to the Way”, Part 1, 04-14-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 31, “War”, Part 2, 04-07-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Ch. 31, “War”, 03-31-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ CH 30, “Necessary Action”-Pt 3, 03-24-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ CH 30, “Necessary Action”-Pt 2, 03-17-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ CH 30, “Necessary Action”, 03-10-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Chapter 29 “Not of the World” Part 2, 02-25-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Chapter 29 “Not of the World”, 02-18-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Chapter 28 “Grace” Part 3, 02-11-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Chapter 28 “Grace”, 02-04-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Chapter 27 & 28 “Grace”, 01-28-24
- Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ Chapter 27, 01-21-24
- Tao Te Ching, Chapter 26, 01-14-24
- Tao Te Ching, Chapters 26 & 27, 01-07-24
- Tao Te Ching, “CH. 26, Heedful Leadership
- Tao Te Ching, “CH 25, Creation, Part 3
- Tao Te Ching, CH 25, Creation Pt. 3
- Tao Te Ching, “Abstinence and Creation – CH 24, Pt. 4, and CH 25 Pt. 1”
- Tao Te Ching, “Possessed by the Tao – CH 24, Pt. 3.”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 24 “Abstinence, Pt. 2”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 23 “Use Time To Be Like The Way” Pt 2. & Ch. 24 “Abstinence”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 23 “Use Time to Be Like the Way”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 22 “The Return”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 21 “Intrinsic Nature”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 20 “Dare to Be Different, Pt. 2”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 20 “Dare to Be Different”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 19 “Empower a Strong Culture”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 18 “Without the Way”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 17 “Effective & Ineffective Leadership”
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 16 “The Way of Enlightenment”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “The Ancient Masters” Pt. 2
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “The Ancient Masters” Pt. 1
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Centering in the Way”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Qualifications for Leaders”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Ordinary Contrasted with Wise”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Value of Emptiness”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Mystic Virtue, Part 2”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Mystic Virtue”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Can’t Always Be the Smartest”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Keep to the Simple”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Forget Yourself”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Inexhaustible Mother”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Straw Dogs”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Benefits of The Way”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Reboot”
- Announcing the Reboot! Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Chapter 3”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “Flow of the Tao”
- Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation ~ “The Nameless”