Supreme Balance

Supreme balance:

it's a supreme balance, that we find ourselves a fragile aspect of life with every reason for the outcome to be other than it is now.  Yet life defies reason, of how it came to be through non living matter, a series of chemical events that led to being, and that any one occurrence could have turned the world otherwise - and that we evolved from this, a single cell that held the potentiality of our existence. 

and we find ourselves alive. 

even now we hang in the balance of infinite chance, cooperation of events, and the inter-dependence of life in other forms. We're made of proper elements, precise, and from this we're given start, a chemical reaction. molecules, cells, and from this - somehow, here we are. Any one thing different and we wouldn't exist at all. 

amazingly, every detail is handled on its own.

this alone could offer proof of God's existence - and yet I find myself unable to attribute life to anything other than itself. Life is, and without reason. We exist because we do. This doesn't dismiss God from the equation, but includes everything within life's balance. God is in the details, God is life and not separate from chemical events and the chance of our existence. 

for me, I like the name Tao, the Way, that things are simply as they are and, couldn't be anything but this. The Tao is balancing itself, proceeding in its own perfection. It's all without individual effort, no doer to direct events and cause reactions. The Tao is life in supreme balance, an easy flow of all that is. That I'm an aspect of life curious of itself, aware of my own fragile nature and the balance that it holds - is just the way things are. 

and still, I'm amazed that this is so. 

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Peace, Eric