One who is filled with the Tao
is like a newborn child.
The infant is protected from
the stinging insects, wild beasts, and birds of prey.
Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,
but its grip is firm and strong.
It doesn't know about the union
of male and female,
yet his penis can stand erect,
because of the power of life within him.
It can cry all day and never become hoarse.
This is perfect harmony.
To understand harmony is to understand the Constant.
To know the Constant is to be called 'enlightened'.
To unnaturally try to extend life is not appropriate.
To try and alter the life-breath is unnatural.
The master understands that when something reaches its prime
it will soon begin to decline.
Changing the natural is against the way of the Tao.
Those who do it will come to an early end.
Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land groked.
His messiah Michael changed his environment by example
If I grok the Second Law
If I accept that life is no more or less than dissipation of energy
I can find balance and peace.
Perhaps I can change my environment by example.
To live in balance is to understand thermodynamics;
Entropy and Enthalpy = Life and Death.
I cannot change the law.
I can influence those around me.
Gaia is fragile, we cannot abuse her.
Gaia will survive climate change.
Gaia will survive nuclear disasters.
Gaia will survive human hubris.
Humanity can’t.
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