Before the universe was born
there was something in the chaos of the heavens.
It stands alone and empty,
solitary and unchanging.
It is ever present and secure.
It may be regarded as the Mother of the universe.
Because I do not know its name,
I call it the Tao.
If forced to give it a name,
I would call it 'Great'.
Because it is Great means it is everywhere.
Being everywhere means it is eternal.
Being eternal means everything returns to it.
Tao is great.
Heaven is great.
Earth is great.
Humanity is great.
Within the universe, these are the four great things.
Humanity follows the earth.
Earth follows Heaven.
Heaven follows the Tao.
The Tao follows only itself.
Genesis: In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.
Big Bang: The universe began as a singularity, maybe. We cannot describe the first 10-30 second of this event, nor know what occurred before. What is gravity; when did this force of nature begin to effect creation? This is a wonderful and delicious mystery, comparable to the religious miracles of believers.
It is clear that at this moment time became directional as we understand it with our feeble ability. The concept of negative time running 90 degrees to the real time arrow is as incomprehensible as the imaginary square root of negative 1.
The universe began in chaos. It did not then suddenly become mechanistic ala Newton- just to meet our expectations.
The only reality: energy flows, complexity increases at the expense of enthalpy, life is the consequence, and we are insignificant in comparison.
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