Taoist Diary: Daily Wisdom

Daily wisdom from the Tao, the Stoics and the Buddhist canon: one page each morning, and ten complete works to read in full.

Taoist Diary is a quiet reading app. One short passage arrives each morning, drawn from Laozi, Zhuangzi, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and the Dhammapada, with a line to carry into the day. No feed, no streak to chase, no catching up.

THE DAILY MEDITATION
Three hundred and sixty-five mornings, each one built the same way: a title, a line from the source, a short reflection, and the name of the text it came from. Nothing to scroll through, nothing to catch up on. One day at a time.

THE SHELF
Ten complete works, in public-domain translations, free to read:

• Tao Te Ching — Laozi
• Zhuangzi — Zhuang Zhou
• The Four Lesser Classics — Taoist canon
• Actions and their Retributions — Anonymous, Sung dynasty
• The Classic of Filial Piety — attributed to Confucius and Zang-tze
• The Dhammapada — the Buddhist canon
• The Sutta-Nipata — the Buddhist canon
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• The Discourses of Epictetus
• The Encheiridion — Epictetus

You can read every one of them without paying anything, and without an internet connection once the app is installed.

THE TALES
Fifty-eight parables, retold from named sources across eight traditions — Taoist, Buddhist, Chinese, Greek, Indian, Sufi, Stoic and Zen. One arrives each week. Every tale names the work it came from; none of them were invented for this app.

LISTENING
Everything above can be heard as well as read: the daily meditation, nine of the ten books, and the tales, narrated. There is background music you can leave on underneath, or turn off.

Listening is the part that costs. Reading is not.

WHAT IS FREE, AND WHAT IS NOT
Reading is free — the daily meditation and all ten books, always. Listening is a subscription: US$1.99 per month or US$19.99 per year, with seven days free before anything is charged. You can cancel from your Google Play account at any time; the subscription runs to the end of the period you paid for.

YOUR ACCOUNT
An account keeps your place in each book and carries your subscription between your phone and the web. You can delete it, and everything in it, from inside the app: Profile → Delete account.

Published by Solomon Interactive LLC. Questions, or anything at all: [email protected]

Also known as: Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching), Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi), Lao Tzu (Laozi), the Enchiridion (Encheiridion), Daoism (Taoism) and the Pali canon.