Natural order 2
Do you want to own the world and do as you want with it?
I don't think that you can...
(Lao Tzu)
What is
chaos?
Chaos simply means that a pattern cannot be determined.
Consider cloud formations as an example of this.
Humans apply meaning and measurement to all things in an attempt to
understand the world.
Can you measure
love?
Understanding must be expressed in terms of what you already know.
Existence is unknowable,
so how can it be expressed?
Balancing
Balancing is the process of
moving in accord with how things are.
Tai chi is all about balancing oneself.
Rather than change the world to suit your idea of it, you change how you think
so that you can really see.
Taoism and natural order
Tai chi students have no interest
in politics or control.
The world and reality itself are
recognised as being incomprehensible to the human brain.
No person can understand every aspect of reality - people, animals, water,
land, energy, gases, space, thoughts, opinions, ideas...
There are innumerable relationships between everyone and everything.
It is too vast to
be said, too enormous to be thought.
Taoism teaches a person to let each thing go its natural way, to settle of its own accord.
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