What is Your Master Plan? (Tao Te Ching 63)

We discuss Tao Te Ching 63, which encourages us to tackle major projects by focusing on one component part at a time. Applied to our lives and community building projects, instead of focusing on grand ideological constructs, it might be best for us to ask whether each small action we take serves our overall plan. We cross reference a similar teaching from Jesus in Luke 14, where he encourages us to count the cost before setting off on a spiritual or material quest. This is the chapter with the famous line: A thousand mile trek starts with a single step.

Don’t get overwhelmed friends, just take that first step down the way.