Life Itself Tao

The Tao of Life Itself

The Tao is Life Itself's guide to what we stand for and how we operate.

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Portfolio
Current initiatives and projects — what Life Itself is working on right now.
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Capture an Idea
Got a thought or suggestion? Log it before it disappears.
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Weekly Focus
Who is working on what this week — team plans and current focus.
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Start a Project
Propose or kick off something new — the Working Backwards process.

Everything else

Find people and context

  • Onboarding — new joiner guide
  • People — team profiles and roles
  • Narrative — why we do what we do
  • SCQH — situation, complication, question, hypothesis

Handbook

Culture and principles

Strategy and portfolio detail

How to Read the Tao

Or … The Truth Believed is a Lie. Live the Way, do not Follow It.

Before we begin, it is useful to emphasize a point made originally in the context of Zen teachings (and adapted from John Cleary's introduction to the Blue Cliff Record):

The wise enshrine the miraculous bones of the ancients within themselves: they apply the teachings to themselves and their situations not just in their thoughts. They regard the teachings of the way not as an external body of knowledge to be possessed or as an inflexible dogma to be believed or revered but as something living to be practised.

Ultimately, there is no fixed teaching. Nevertheless the real wisdom, the teaching of the awakening ones, is of one uniform flavor, that of liberation. Just as many rivers lead to the sea, where their different flavours share the unifying taste of salt, so do the teachings of wisdom flow together into the sea of awakening and become one with liberation.

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