Useless and Useful:  Stillness and the Crooked Tree

Useless and Useful: Stillness and the Crooked Tree

During the first conversation I had with my real estate agent when I began looking for a house to purchase in the northern Berkshires, I told him an old Daoist story I used in my teaching.  It is the story of a woodworker. One day, he brought his young son with...