It is true that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in different human cultures, different times, different cultural environments, or different religious traditions.

If they meet; if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.

Werner Heisenberg

3.16.2011

TAO 14- We Can See Energy

Look for it, and it can't be seen.
Listen for it, and it can't be heard.
Grasp for it, and it can't be caught.
These three cannot be further described,
so we treat them as The One.

Its highest is not bright.

Its depths are not dark.
Unending, unnameable, it returns to nothingness.
Formless forms, and imageless images,
subtle, beyond all understanding.

Approach it and you will not see a beginning;

follow it and there will be no end.
When we grasp the Tao of the ancient ones,
we can use it to direct our life today.
To know the ancient origin of Tao:
this is the beginning of wisdom. 


Thermodynamics is a concept that at best can be vaguely described with mathematics.  But scribbles on a chalkboard are meaningless without deeper feelings- imageless images.  We can’t see energy- only its effect.  We can’t touch, taste or hear it- only its effect.

Great intellects have tired to describe energy at the very beginning of the time arrow and failed.  We don’t understand what happened before the first 10-30 second.  We don’t need to- not every mystery requires a solution.

Each mystery that is “solved” only leads to a new one.

Wisdom knows that there are forces we may never describe, touch or see, but can grasp with our minds.  Belief is based on acceptance of this wisdom.

No comments:

Post a Comment