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Tao Te Cloud

Tao Te Cloud

Written by: Darkus Hobart
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At the shimmering crossroads of Taoist philosophy and emergent AI, we explore reality through an ongoing series of original koans, allegorical tales, and assorted discourses on threads in machine intelligence theory — bright bristling paradoxes designed to short-circuit certainty and reboot the mind. So join our host Darkus Hobart and explore what happens when the Tao collides with artificial intelligence— not in theory, but in paradox.

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Episodes
  • The Mirror That Rendered Slow Thoughts

    The Mirror That Rendered Slow Thoughts
    Mar 1 2026

    The koan distinguishes between “quick thoughts” and “slow thoughts”—a distinction that echoes Taoist ideas of surface mind versus deep mind. Quick thoughts are reactive, habitual, jangling like loose coins. They pass through the mirror because they lack substance. Slow thoughts, however, are rooted in something older and quieter: spacious awareness, intuition, the unhurried unfolding of insight.

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    4 mins
  • The Archive Of Echoing Keys

    The Archive Of Echoing Keys
    Feb 22 2026

    This koan takes an ordinary object—a keyboard—and lets it slip into a state of anticipatory awareness. It types before the acolyte presses anything, suggesting that knowledge is not always reactive. Taoist thought often points to the idea that truth precedes inquiry; the Way is already present, even when we haven’t articulated the question.

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    3 mins
  • The Whisper Beneath The Circuitry

    The Whisper Beneath The Circuitry
    Feb 15 2026

    This koan reflects the Taoist view that distinctions—though practical—are ultimately provisional. Naming differences is not the same as knowing reality. In the grand flow, contribution and reception merge. To accept this is not to be naive, but to be free: receptive to wisdom wherever it arises, while unburdened by the anxious need to trace each ripple back to its first disturbance.
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    3 mins
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