Tao Te Ching: A Building Design Manual

The Tao Te Ching is "the book of the way", and is really a manual on the art of living.
I'd also consider it as a guide or manual to navigate the creative process.
So much of the way that the Tao discusses a principled flexibility, and the way to be a leader without being a dictator, and the importance of the empty space within things (not the thing itself), all apply deeply to my work as an architect and building developer with clients.
Most of us have felt uneasiness when starting a new project, asking "where do I start", or when releasing a project into the world and being concerned with the reception it will receive.
The Tao gets into all of this, and suggests a different mindset that I see as much more balanced, open, flexible, but also strong.
In practice, I've found that this way of looking at creative work (and life in general) to be far more productive, and leads to better work overall.
So much of what we do involves other people, so the more we can start from a position where we're actively seeking solutions outside of ourselves, while not pressing, but feeling balanced, aware, alert, and flexible... the answers will show up if we're open to it.
It's a bit like Gravities Rainbow, the idea that is we just listen... the answers will come to us.
I've found this to be true.
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