Chaos, Dance and Life
Julie and I are working together, combining our practices together.
Merging Dance and Taoist practice together. It's been a meandering process , not with intentions, but occurring from sharing the love of life.
So we were talking last night
Julie asks: "What is Chaos's expression in Nature?"
It was interesting since with that question my third eye opened and visions danced across my mind. This is one aspect to being a Taoist Master, the opening of the third eye and how it reveals information and wisdom. It's a strange experience in that it overlaps one's senses and yet it is also a very distinct sense onto its own.
So from the visions the response came back immediately: It's the basis and final form of true individuality.
In the fractal pattern of life: We start off as a seed pattern. However the final shape, the final form is unique to each one of us. For example: just as fingerprints are unique even to twins. A finger print is defined by the initial fractal pattern seed (Yin) combining to the random interactions of growth (Yang) within the womb end up producing each final finger print to be unique.
Our individuality, our unique spin in consciousness is due to Chaos. Chaos is what makes each human uniquely an individual human.
Without Chaos we would each be just simply organic computers without a defined sense of true self.
We are a fire engaged within a dance of life and the peak of our experience, is also the peak of our individuality. IN this, is part of the reason why the hardest times of life are often remembered as the best times of life... since we are shaping towards our ultimate expression of what we are.
A Taoist always embraces now fully, every moment is lived fully and in that is the chaos of why people have such a hard time following a Taoist Master in their course... We dance with Chaos to live fully, while flirting with a sense of order to maintain balance ....
Taoism as a practice is truly a wonderful dance indeed!
Peace
13 comments:
Hello,
I love your Visual representation of Fractal.
Do you think it is a problem if I use it as the header-background-image of a website ?
Please contact me. I can send back to you my creation.
It's look like an flower of spirit... I love it.
Xeonarno
It's not my creation
I found it on the internet from a Google search
http://lojjic.net/gallery/1000words/20031208-flame-fractal.jpg
If you look closely at the image it has the author as from Jason Johnston.
So you would have to ask Jason Johnston
http://lojjic.net/
Speaking of which I am curious how did you find this post, it seems to get a lot of traffic and I am curious if it's been crossed link from somewhere else.
Peace
I found this by entering "fractal" into google images. It was the second entry!
Thanks! I was wondering why so many people were finding this blog entry.
Have agreat day Ni!
sincerely
Casey
taoism lacks basic structure and balance.
Hi James:
To your statement
the Tao is undefined...
Tao - ism is living life to the undefined truth of the Tao...
However, being human, having "form", structure... that means we in the actions of our life do define form and structure which is in Fact Taoism.
While many structures exist all of which if you live to them are Taoist by the nature of Taoism itself. Do the degree of structure and balance is relative to each person in how they decide to live that life.
For some people thats very unbalanced or unstructured... for others something they find their own balance or struture which can be very organized.
Look to history and at all the variations of any religion or Taoist practices and you will see this in action.
As the Tao is undefined.. no monopoly exists on a correct version of the tale... and hence fractally humans expand out their stories of what it is just becuase we have form.
nice post
Thanks NYC
this is quite a beautiful fractal, in computational thought.
:)
I'm curious about your answer to the the statement "Taoism lacks structure".
In a strict, physical and mathematical sense, nothing has order or everything.
By that I mean that either chaos exists and permeates everything, or reality is deterministic.
Intuitively I feel that chaos exists, but perhaps the pattern is just not yet within our grasp...
This is my first contact with Taoism, interesting thought. I will have to read some more.
/a math student
PS. I was also looking for fractals :P
HI Daniel
when you ask:
In a strict, physical and mathematical sense, nothing has order or everything.
By that I mean that either chaos exists and permeates everything, or reality is deterministic.
The answers:
Perhaps it's all at the same time. :)
The bigger issues is this, we are a sub part of a larger system. Math as we use it doesn't represent the larger whole, it represents a modeling of the relationship that evolves in the whole.
You can use abstract algebra to define your groups and sets to map out mathematical relationships yes... But it is still in terms of our understanding and relationships which limit the math in the end...
In the end the universe isn't any of those things you ask, instead it shows aspects of all those statements and depending on how you measure and view it you get the correlated answers to match the results.
I hope this makes sense
Hi,
This is a very interesting topic. To me there is an interesting connection between chaos and individuality (something you seem to agree with).
Also I completely agree that math is only a local approximation of reality as we know it. It is, in itself by no means a universal truth.
So what you are saying, in the end, is that the universe is whatever we want it to be?
It would be interesting to know what your views are on the possibility of future artificial intelligence? To me intelligence and the chaos of nature strongly correlate. The unpredictability of human behavior is part what defines our intelligence.
Perhaps it would be simpler to maintain this discussion as emails. If so, my adress is daniel.langkilde@gmail.com
PS. (in case I don't make sense, it might be due to the fact that Swedish is my first language)
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