Nature has a way of working
things out.
Our life has a way of working
things out.
Thinking has very little impact
on how things are.
Things are just what they need to be
to get things done.
Everything is finding out
what it can get by with.
Everything has to take
something else into account.
Even black holes.
It is the way things are,
or, "It is the way,"
for short.
Which segues nicely into
the way of ebb and flow
that is called "the Tao,"
balancing and harmonizing Yin and Yang
throughout the universe.
The Tao can be thought of
as the source of Yen and Yang,
ebb and flow,
or the result of Yen and Yang,
ebb and flow.
What comes first?
It depends on how we look at it.
Everything does.
Changing our perspective changes everything.
Things have been becoming themselves
over billions of years.
Cause and effect blur into each other
becoming effect and cause
to the point where it is impossible
to know what was the first cause
not caused by some effect.
It has always been what it is
becoming what it is not
without reason or purpose or cause
because it can/must/can't help itself.
Which segues nicely into
how do we organize ourselves around
what we need to operate smoothly,
flowing endlessly with balance and harmony
forever even through death and the hereafter?
It is hard to beat emptiness, stillness and silence
in sync with intrinsic intuition
(which is the hidden cause of everything)
for producing what we are capable of becoming
throughout the days of our primary existence.
Which segues nicely into where do we go from there/here/now?
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 