Back in the mid-90s, in the days of AOL, I first logged in as Zen Man Me. Around the year 2000, I went Google. By then, I was teaching college in the Bay Area and learning the local vernacular.
Thus, Zen Man Yo!
On paper, I’m hardly a Zen Man. No meditation in robe-silent temples. No dharma-talk attendance. No shaving my head to show I’m not attached to my hair.
Instead, I’m more of a Tao Man — one following Taoism, the native Chinese influence on Siddhartha’s rising Buddhism.
Like legendary Lao-Tzu, Taoists follow a middle path through the Tao te Ching, riding each wave of the universe, acting only when nature acts from within.
Looking back, Tao Man Yo might’ve been a more accurate login. But something inside me went with Zen, so I went with the Tao, riding that wave till now.
Zen Man Yo 