{"id":89,"date":"2015-09-19T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taoofstefan.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T07:58:47","slug":"the-beginning-of-tao-of-stefan-a-blogventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taoofstefan.com\/blog\/main\/the-beginning-of-tao-of-stefan-a-blogventure\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginning of Tao of Stefan – A Blogventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

After some time of procrastination and waiting for the right moment to start my blogventure, it’s finally time for this idea to start and the beginning of Tao of Stefan. As the title says it’s a new beginning. Not only in terms of me writing, sharing thoughts, ideas and experiences with you all, but also a new beginning for and within myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Tao<\/span><\/h2>\n

You might have wondered about the name of my blog taoofstefan. I’d like to give you little insight about why I chose that name.\u00a0<\/span>If you look at the source of the name, “Tao” (\u9053) is the important part. Tao of course leads us directly to Taoism (\u9053\u6559) which is described on wikipedia <\/a>as<\/span>
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“a philosophical, ethical or religious tradition of Chinese origin, or faith of Chinese exemplification, that emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao<\/a><\/i>.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Moving forward wikipedia <\/a>defines Tao as<\/span><\/p>\n

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“<\/b>a Chinese concept signifying ‘way’, ‘path’, ‘route’, or sometimes more loosely, ‘doctrine’ or ‘principle’. Within the context of traditional Chinese philosophy and religion, The Tao is the intuitive knowing of “life” that of which cannot be grasped full-heartedly as just a concept but known nonetheless through actual living experience of one’s everyday being.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, without getting very religious, spiritual or philosophical, the blog will be my “way”, “principles” or “life” for that matter. My posts will be about things I care about or subjects I want to share my thoughts with you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Blog<\/span><\/h2>\n

Therefore what I’m going to write about starting today, will not be subjected to any specific topic, such as cooking, finance, or health like many other blogs. It will rather be about things that I feel like writing about. Nevertheless, there will be a few recurring major topics as those are close to my heart. In one way or another they are a huge part of my life. For the time being those topics can be grouped as shown below:<\/span><\/p>\n