by Josh Young » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:01 pm
I am elaborating not for sake of argument, but because I was asked to.
It this is out of place we can take it to PM.
Consider a wire with what we call an electric current, (I would call it an electrical resonance, not a current) the wire does not change, even as it propagates the energy.
Consider the ocean as a wave passes through it, it propagates but does not change. If one watches the wave, it dissipates as it propagates(entropy), but never transforms.
Consider a light bulb, the electrical energy goes through it, it is not transformed into light, light is given off as a result of entropy but is not the result of a change of energy or matter. The bulb remains the same, so does the filament.
Consider critical mass and atomic fission. The fundamental parts of the subatomic "particles" remain as they are. The atoms do not change even when they are split.
Consider a tree that is cut into ten thousand wooden objects. The wood does not change, the atoms of the wood does not change. We can say that the shape has changed, but there was no transformation only the removal of material.
Consider the thermodynamic laws, if you lift something off of the ground then it has not changed, other than to say it changes position, but that is propagation, not transformation.
The universe never seems to change. We assume it does perhaps, because our perspective changes position, so things look different to us according to our perspective, but the elephant stays the same regardless of the claims of the blind. If one of the proverbial fellows trades position with another, then he would report that the elephant changed, but did it?
In the way of nature, the path of nature, the way of things, in Tao, all is. Tao is great, great is not value, it is expanse. Yin and yang exists as two sides of one, this one is undifferentiated and so is none even as it is one. This is wuji-taiji-yin/yang. I doubt any of us is not familiar with this. If I push you, and you are yin to my yang, you do not change my energy, even as you re-direct it, you would propagate it, but not transform it, for it cannot be changed.
Change is part of the illusion. We assume that things change when our perception does, we assume things have changed when we perceive them as different than they were. But if we look for the moment of change we will not find it.
Consider the concept of changing direction, this is not a true transformation, rather it is a redirection, a propagation. Consider the combustion of wood, it is basically made of beta bonded sugar molecules that form the polysaccharide: cellulose, a natural hydrocarbon based form of plastic. However when wood burns it propagates its energy, on one level we say the wood has changed, and this is valid. However if we look at the process of combustion, we see energetic propagation and release, the hydrogen and carbon for example, do not change. So even while we can observe types of change this is due to perspective, if we look at instances of change we find that a lack of change underlies them. For the electricity to be" changed" into light, the nature of the electron charge, of the photon, of entropy etc, must not change. For the wave to reach the shore the ocean and the wave cannot change.
Pass a wave through water with a cork floating on it, even as the wave "changes" position, the cork stays in the same location. The movement of the wave requires that the water not change locations, it must stay in the same place.
This is the essence of my view of change, as foolish as it may be.
It was explained by Sidhartha, he said the only thing that never changes is that everything does, more or less. Think about that, he states that change is an illusion, because the constant observation of change never changes. This implies the same thing as the wave in the ocean, for the wave to "change" position the ocean must remain as it is. Change requires as it's foundation a lack of change, this implies that change is an artifact of mind, which Siddhartha also taught me.
Sorry if this sounds foolish, I am you see a human and therefor am foolish.