TAO 41- Laughing at Reality

When a superior person hears of the Tao,
She diligently puts it into practice.
When an average person hears of the Tao,
he believes half of it, and doubts the other half.
When a foolish person hears of the Tao,
he laughs out loud at the very idea.
If he didn't laugh,
it wouldn't be the Tao.

Thus it is said:
The brightness of the Tao seems like darkness,
the advancement of the Tao seems like retreat,
the level path seems rough,
the superior path seem empty,
the pure seems to be tarnished,
and true virtue doesn't seem to be enough.
The virtue of caution seems like cowardice,
the pure seems to be polluted,
the true square seems to have no corners,
the best vessels take the most time to finish,
the greatest sounds cannot be heard,
and the greatest image has no form.

The Tao hides in the unnamed,
Yet it alone nourishes and completes all things.

Gaia lies within a delicate balance

Our sun provides unfathomable high quality energy.

Life evolved to a complex process of damping, absorbing, and dissipating this energy.

One small change to that balance and all is lost.

TAO speaks to balance

Thermodynamics speaks to the same balance.

Climate change is the indicator that we are out of balance.

Gaian’s understand and live with this

Many don’t understand: maybe it exists, maybe it doesn’t

Fools laugh and scoff, seeking immediate profits, resource utilization to maximize production and growth, convinced that an anthropomorphic god will rescue.

Beneath all is the unchanging, uncaring Law of Thermodynamics.

Choosing to follow the law is not an option.