Nurture the darkness of your soul
until you become whole.
Can you do this and not fail?
Can you focus your life-breath until you become
supple as a newborn child?
While you cleanse your inner vision
will you be found without fault?
Can you love people and lead them
without forcing your will on them?
When Heaven gives and takes away
can you be content with the outcome?
When you understand all things
can you step back from your own understanding?
Giving birth and nourishing,
making without possessing,
expecting nothing in return.
To grow, yet not to control:
This is the mysterious virtue.
Wow- heavy warning from the time of Confucius.
Lao Tsu’s challenge is whether we can understand and change our behaviors to live within the confines and rules of thermodynamics. Can we learn to be in balance with what we call nature and in harmony with GAIA?
When Heaven gives and takes away
can you be content with the outcome?
can you be content with the outcome?
Can we, knowing as a life form, that we are capable of incredible destruction and chaos be willing to accept the consequences?
Destruction of our speck of sand in the endless beach of the universe means nothing, except to us.
Thermodynamics demands that energy and complexity both move to chaos and heat. If we speed up that process are we not following this simple rule?
It will happen- that is given. But we have the opportunity to delay the certain and enjoy the process if we are wise.
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