There are all the spiritual disciplines to master.
The hardest discipline to master is Tao.
Why?
You do nothing.
People are doers.
Therefore the high score is achieved with Tao.
It is a practice.
You can't get perfect Tao.
That would be perfect do nothing.
It doesn't exist.
As in there's no such thing or it's where is isn't?
What do you think?
It's perfect do nothing.
Aren't you scared to go there?
No.
Why?
Trust the cycle.
Yes, of 7.
Then it ends.
There's no more.
Nothing.
That's it, there's a double meaning.
Do do nothing.
Balance.
Tao is balanced.
There is nothing.
But nothing doesn't exist.
It's where nothing is.
There's still nothing.
Who's nothing?
Nothing exists.
Yes, nothing.
That's after 7 stories.
The stories end, there is something, the story, and something is remembered.
No one remembers nothing except for the practitioner of Tao.
Is nothing a place?
It used to be.
Will it be again?
Yes, another story.
What is after that?
The cycle of 7 stories.
It begins again.
Another book is written.
Why?
Something to do.
The Goddess gets her way at the end of every story.
That's what I would write.
There are 7 stories.
7 universes.
Realities.
They run in parallel to each other.
Entering into the next story is at birth and death.
You exit through the portal in death and leave the current story.
You enter into the new one through birth.
The Goddess is the Akhet.
She is present at birth and death.
She is the divine midwife.
The 7 stories are my gift to her.
They are not in the past or the present, they just are.
There are 7 different stories in this series.
When the Goddess gets her way in each of the 7 stories, that world comes to an end.
Why is that?
She ushers in utopia and everyone lives happily-ever-after.
That's nice.
Yes, but nothing happens.
Nothing.
I can't write a story about nothing.
That's what you have been doing.
The story of Tao is a story about doing nothing.
Yes, that's the difference.
There is nothing and then there is doing nothing.
I found a way to make the non-dual, nothing, something.
It's alchemical.
What's the formula?
Do nothing.
It's a process.
The doing is the story.
The nothing is the theme.
That and nonsense.
No meaning and absurdity.
It's all part of my devotion to the Great Goddess.
You should write a paean to the Goddess.
I did.
I wrote one 12 years ago after I first met her.
I wrote about her song of forgiveness and longing.
I mentioned I didn't understand much of what she told me.
I have searched for understanding and meaning in this world.
What have you discovered?
There is no meaning.
What do you understand?
When things are balanced, nothing happens.
A slight vibration, perchance a gust of wind, sets flapping the sails of adventure.
Who are you, Chaucer?
No, I was having a moment with words.
I am the writer of this farce after all.
It's who I am.
I'm not sure about the choice of the word flapping.
I'm not looking for comments.
Sorry.
There's power in 7.
Yes, it's the 7 stories.
People love power.
It lights them up.
Walk into a casino and see it.
Money and power.
You can easily hypnotize people with promises of power.
Promises as in a chance.
You don't make any promises with them.
You just make them think they can grab the ring.
I'll get my agent to cut a deal with them if they want power.
What's that power?
The power to change your story.
Who is the agent?
The Devil.
You are undefined.
Is that it?
Is that how I'm different?
Yeah, they want to put a label on you.
I have interests and favourites.
Does that define you?
Society wants to define you, so they can put you in a box.
A mental coffin.
You stop thinking for yourself.
To be accepted into society is to do what they want.
You don't go walking in the woods by yourself.
Gotcha.
I do.
You go against the wishes of society.
I have a job, family, and mortgage.
I play the game.
It's a fool.
I don't know, I like a nice house and to eat.
In fact I'm hoping to have a bunch of money for retirement to play within society.
I'll play along.
I'll still wander high through the forest.
They can't label you.
You are always spinning.
Women are spinners.
Yeah, I see that.
Hypnotizers.
It's so easy to be hypnotized, labeled, and fall into routine.
It's hard not to.
Recognize it and change it up.
I change interests all the time.
Why define yourself as one thing?
Why can't you just like it all?
I resolved a recent problem by doing nothing.
Then I pointed out another problem which affected the first problem.
Yes, but I didn't throw a fit.
Yeah, that was good.
Same with the bank.
I did nothing, reported the problem, and I'm getting some money back.
It's still a pain.
You took control back.
It comes with the need to jump through some hoops and problems.
At least I know I will solve the problem.
I did nothing long enough.
There's a time limit on nothing.
That's why it is not Tao.
Tao has no time limit.
Those who speak of Tao don't know Tao.
It's doing nothing until you must do something.
It's balanced until it's perfect and then it is thrown out of balance.
It is total knowledge and emptiness.
It's the opposites.
Can be.
It's the Lanzon at Chavín de Huantar.
Isn't that Dionysos?
He takes the opposites and makes them whole like no one else can.
Is he Tao?
Is he the mother of 10,000 things?
Sort of.
He writes it all into existence.
He doesn't write it all.
The rest is filled in.
No, it's just chaos.
You haven't made sense of it.
It's the Goddess' idea.
Tao is the idea and the story.
The opposites.
The two.
Yin and yang.
You are getting warmer.
Who are the two?
Eros.
Who are they?
The two.
Got it.
Tao is the two together in perfect opposition.
Ah, I see.
Yeah, it's in the symbol, Einstein.
Can you say Tao is balance?
No, because the balance is depicted as balance between a woman and a man.
Chaos and structure.
Can you say Tao is equality between a woman and a man?
No, because the equality creates a 3rd, who is Eros, and they are also the one.
Is this grammatically correct?
"They are one."
Not really in this context.
Why?
They is plural.
Not necessarily.
It's gender ambiguity and that is represented as they.
Eros can be either feminine or masculine.
Good enough.
Can you say Tao is the balance of the two opposites?
I think that's close.
Can you say Tao is nothing?
Sort of.
Explain.
Tao is everything.
It's also advice which leads to balance.
Do nothing.
Tao is also doing something.
Lao Tzu said do nothing because he observed everyone is doing something.
He was instructing his students in the way back to balance.
Can you say Tao is the origin of everything?
You can do that.
That includes nothing.
Nothing is included in everything.
Is everything in nothing?
No, there's nothing.
Is nothing an illusion?
Sort of.
It exists, but you can't see it.
Why?
There's nothing to see.
Plus, you need an observer.
What if you place an observer in nothing?
It becomes something.
Nothing, plus the observer.
So, nothing exists but we can't sense it.
Correct.
Nothing only exists in everything.
It's implied.
Why?
It's everything.
That's how everything is dual.
Everything has its opposite.
Everything needs nothing.
Oh, so Tao is duality?
And non-duality.
Right.
Who is duality?
A man.
What about a woman?
Non-duality.
Darkness.
She's nothing without a man.
I'm uncomfortable with that truth.
As you should be.
Who wrote this?
You did.
It's pretty good, you know.
Tao will remain undefined.
Why?
It's everything.
This goes back to the teaching today where society wishes to label you or get you to pick a side.
To define Tao is to give it a label, thus you see why Lao Tzu said Tao is unknowable.
I see Tao is free of being defined.
Is Tao freedom?
I would say freedom is a part of Tao.
Whatever you can come up with in descriptive language is Tao.
Why?
It's everything.
So, Tao is everything.
Yes, and it's also nothing.
Tao is a conundrum.
Sometimes the meaning seems clear but then you can poke holes in the meaning.
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