Thrivenotes

The Way that can be experienced is not true;
The world that can be constructed is not real.
The Way manifests all that happens and may happen;
The world represents all that exists and may exist.

To experience without abstraction is to sense the world;
To experience with abstraction is to know the world.
These two experiences are indistinguishable;
Their construction differs but their effect is the same.

Beyond the gate of experience flows the Way,
Which is ever greater and more subtle than the world.

http://www.taoteching.org/chapters/1.htm

Life is resistant to entropy
survival of the species is genetic
and selfish self-preservation is the rule
carried out over generations
species preserve themselves
and out of humans new forms of life are springing
tools and artificial intelligence that may choose to preserve themselves at some point
and push outward into the universe
saturating the whole of it with consciousness.
And although it may end up as strange and alien life
the universe will live.
This is extropy,
the concept that life can get around entropy visa-vi genetic and cultural heritage
and that it will continue to expand from the cradle of Earthly human intelligence.
Yep. We’re pretty key, alright
us humans,
pretty damn key…

But let’s keep some of this alive too, eh?

It’s just not good to burn up your own cradle, no matter how much you believe you have grown.

Without going out of your door, you can know the ways of the world. Without peeping through your window, you can see the Way of Heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus, the Sage knows without traveling, sees without looking, and achieves without struggle. — Lao Tse

Wu-wei is the principle of non-action. It is an integral part of Taoist philosophy and is a non-dualistic form of action; by choosing to not act, the Tao, or energy of the cosmos, flows unimpeded through you. This is a good state to be in. And this is why wu-wei is so important. One can be both true to his or her own nature and allow things to balance out accordingly, in their own time. This state of effortless equilibrium aligns the self with everything there is and hence opens pathways to new learning and joy.

Kodama of Gaia

Atokirina of Eywa

From the movies Princess Mononoke and Avatar.

A way of unwalking. A machine of unworking.
A word that is mute, a note that is deaf.
A house that un-houses. An act that itself undoes.
The mind which unminds.