Hosted by Ian Felton · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 93 episodes
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I’m Ian Felton, a psychotherapist in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Daoist practitioner. Listen as I read the Daodejing in Chinese, craft a fresh translation, and discuss it with the aim of creating inner transformation for myself and the listeners. For those listeners who engaged with the original podcast, "Walking the Timeless Way," with David Wang, I hope you find the new format and approach rewarding. The episodes from that series have all been labeled as "Original Series."
Ian Felton hosts Dao with Ian Felton, a religion show with 93 episodes published.
Anything can happen at any moment. Most of the energy in a day goes into making sure we don't have to feel that. The job, the people who love us, the home we'll go back to tonight, the self we point to when we say our ow
Show notesYou wanted the version where no one declines. Where the people you love don't go. Where the practice deepens forever and the work keeps landing. The tower of a life without loss. Chapter 14 of the Daodejing is what's lef
Show notesWhen we let ourselves think about our lives as something that has to be useful for the economic system built around us, we can completely lose touch with ourselves. What is left when we refuse to sacrifice our lives on t
Show notesThe chase of the hunt maddens the heart. Chapter 12 of the Daodejing diagnoses what happens to the perceptual apparatus under sustained intense stimulation — and names the structural problem underneath hustle culture, st
Show notesThirty spokes share a hub. The cart's use lives in the hollow at the center. A clay vessel holds what it holds because of the empty space the clay is shaping. A room is useful because of the air inside the walls. Chapter
Show notesThere's a story in the Zhuangzi about a man named Hundun who had no face — no openings, no gates. He was apparently doing fine. His well-meaning friends decided to give him what everyone else had. One opening per day. On
Show notesChapter 9 of Daodejing is five lines. One image: the blade hammered past its edge, the vessel filled past its capacity, the man who couldn't stop when the work was done. This week — the cook whose knife is still sharp af
Show notesWater. Chapter 8 of the Daodejing takes the most ordinary thing in the world and asks you to look at it until you see something extraordinary. This episode does the same. Ian shares a Dao moment from Senegal — from the d
Show notesWhat if the path to becoming whole runs directly through letting go of the self you've been protecting? Chapter 7 of the Daodejing opens with the cosmos—heaven enduring, earth remaining—and asks a quiet question: why? No
Show notesRecorded at sunset in Saint-Louis, Senegal — just after Ramadan — with the call to prayer audible in the background, Episode 6 takes up one of the shortest and most compressed chapters in the Daodejing: Chapter Six, the
Show notesChapter Five of the Daodejing — straw dogs, the bellows, and the paradox of useful emptiness. We open with a Neiye breathing practice that puts the chapter's central image in your body before a word of explanation is spo
Show notesWhat if two Chinese characters written 2,500 years ago anticipated quantum physics? In this episode, Ian Felton explores Chapter Four of the Daodejing, unpacking the opening characters 道沖 — Dao rushing forth through an a
Show notesIf you’re curious about how a philosophy older than civilization can illuminate the noise of the 21st‑century world, press play. Join Ian as he blends scholarship, psychotherapy, and a call for a calmer, more compassiona
Show notesDive into a fresh, unscripted conversation with psychotherapist‑and‑Daoist practitioner Ian Felton as he explores Chapter 2 of the Daodejing (the classic Daoist text). In this episode Ian:Reads the original Chinese verse
Show notesWhat the heck is Daoism and why should I care? "I don't know," is the answer to both, but we're going to explore this ancient text anyway. This episode introduces the history of Daodejing before exploring the first chapt
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In this episode, we bring closure to our podcast. Note: The podcast was rebooted with a new format on 2/19/2026. Please check out the new episodes.
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Chapter 25 of Daodejing is about cycles and the relationships between various powers within existence. David and Ian talk about what cycles we are are in currently and whether or not humanity is being responsible with th
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Chapter 24 of Daodejing is about balance. We discuss how to try to keep it in a chaotic world.
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We're talking about chapter 23 of Daodejing and its theme of letting go and acceptance. We talk about how letting go of toxic emotions creates the space necessary to let in nourishment and psychological wellbeing.
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In this episode, we explore the role of dialectics in understanding existence, inspired by the Dao De Jing and the life of Gao Yaojie. We examine the character '则' (zé) from Laozi's era, its significance in conveying dia
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