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The Tao gives birth to One
One gives birth to Two...
from Lao-tzu’s Taoteching Verse 42
When the Big Bang happened
"No Thing" became at least "Two Things".
The key factor which defines Life as we know it
is that the first Two Things, born from the Center of No Thing,
were not the same; Life depended on them being, in some minute way,
different from each other.
Were it not for the slightest difference
​in the density distribution of matter
​galaxies would have been unable to form.
Parker Barry, PhD, Physics
Difference = Change = Movement = Life
The polar dance between all differences
makes the world go 'Round.
The Power of the World
always works in circles,
and everything tries to be round...
The Sky is round...
the earth is round like a ball,
and so are all the stars.
The wind in its greatest power whirls.
Birds make their nests in circles
for theirs is the same religion as ours...
Even the seasons form a great circle
in their changing and always
come back again to where they were.
The life of a man is a circle
from childhood to adulthood.
And so it is in everything
where power moves.
Black Elk ~ Oglala Sioux Holy Man, 1863-1950
All phenomena manifest as a cyclical, mutually arising,
ever changing energetic dance between differences:
between the dark and the light,
between cause and effect,
between Yin and Yang,
etc.
The Taoist Yin Yang symbol represents
the two conjoined phases of the moon,
ever waxing and waning,
each with the seed of its opposite within.
The Chinese character for Tao is made of two glyphs
which translate as "head" and "go".
Head refers to the face of the Moon.
Go refers to the the way in which
the Moon moves across the sky.
Just as the phases of the Moon are
ever changing,
so are we.
We are inseparable from the Tao.
We are inseparable from the natural laws
which govern the balance of all Movement and Change.
Too much light and plants wither.
Too much dark and plants never grow.
"Truth" is always in the Middle.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
How can you do consciously what Nature
does effortlessly?
Come to your Senses.
ReTurn to the innate Sense Ability you had as a little child.
ReTurn to the universal Circle of Life from which
difference is evidence of being alive and
synchronicity is accord with the Tao,
the "Middle Way".
​Life is probably Round.
Vincent Van Gogh