The whole philosophy, in three sentences.

CD Damitio spent thirty years inside religions — Christianity as a teenager, Nichiren Buddhism in his twenties, Islam in his thirties — and outside them too, reading Krishnamurti, Lao Tzu, the Sufis, Hesse, Orwell. Every tradition had something useful. None of them had only the useful thing. They all came with hierarchy, fees, gatekeepers, or a wall of belief you had to climb before you could practice.

Baoism is the part that was always working underneath. Three instructions. Anyone can run them. They get harder the longer you do them, which is how you know they're real.

Tox is anything you do that you already know is harming you, harming someone close to you, or harming a stranger you'll never meet. You don't need a guru to identify your Tox. You already have the list. You've had it for years.

The drink that makes tomorrow worse. The scroll that eats the morning. The contempt you carry for someone you used to love. The half-truth that protects you and costs them. The job you keep doing the way you've always done it, even though you know it's making someone smaller.

Stop Tox is the first instruction because the second one doesn't work until you stop pouring sand into the gas tank.

Rox is anything you do that leaves the people around you a little better than you found them. It is almost never glamorous. It does not get a statue. It is, very often, boring.

Showing up on time. Listening without rehearsing your reply. Doing the dish. Writing the email you've been avoiding. Telling the truth in the smallest possible way. Going outside. Calling the person who is dying. Putting down the phone when the kid walks in.

Rox fills the hole that Tox leaves. If you skip this step, the hole stays open and Tox grows back.

In Baoism this is called Bao Ji. It means: help one other person stop their Tox and start their Rox. Then help another. The practice is transmitted person to person, never institution to institution, because institutions corrupt practices and people — in the right circumstances — do not.

Bao Ji is not evangelism. You don't recruit. You don't convert. You don't even have to say the word "Baoism." If someone you love is trying to be less shitty, you help them. If they ask what you're doing, you can tell them. If they don't ask, you helped anyway. That's the point.

No dogma. You don't have to believe in God, karma, energy, vibrations, or CD Damitio.

No hierarchy. There are no ranks. No advanced level. No one above you and no one below.

No fees. Everything on this site is free. There is no paid tier, no course, no funnel.

No recruitment. You don't bring people in. You help people who are already trying.