What is rooted is easy to nourish.
What is recent is easy to correct.
What is brittle is easy to break.
What is small is easy to scatter.
Prevent trouble before it arises.
Put things in order before they exist.
The giant pine tree
grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet.
Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.
—Tao Te Ching 64
Aphex Twin—Stone In Focus
Someone posted this video with the looped video of the macaque, but it was very clear where the loop ended and it would jerk back to the beginning, so I downloaded the video and reversed the a copy of the section and strung them together so there was no visible seam. Much better!
I wonder what he thinking about, sitting chest-deep in the quiet river.
Does he care about nothing but the Tao?
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