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1899, Interview with Nikola Tesla, by Edvard Csanyi (As much as we may like this to be real, it is not an actual interview with Tesla . Rather, it’s a translation from a 1995 Serbian play, ‘ Tesla or Customization of an Angel ’ by Serbian playwright, Stevan Pešić . As inspiration, in his own words, Pešić used Tesla the man himself. Watch the 2001 recording of the play here .) "Once, in 1899, Nikola Tesla had an interview with certain journalist John Smith, when Tesla said “ Everything is the Light “. In one of its rays is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in that great light source, which we see as the Sun. And remember: no one man that existed did not die. Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you have gained the glory of the man who got involved in the cosmic processes. Who are you, Mr. Tesla? Tesla: It is a right question, Mr. Smith, and I will try to give you the right answer to it. Journalist: Some say you’re from the country of Croatia, from the area called Lika, where together with the people are growing trees, rocks and starry sky. They say that your home village is named after the mountain flowers, and that the house, where you were born, is next to the forest and the church. Tesla: Really, all it true. I’m proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland. Journalist: Futurists say that the Twenty-and Twenty First Century was born in head of Nikola Tesla . They celebrate conversely magnetic field and sing hymns to Inductions engine. Their creator was called the hunter who caught the light in his net from the depths of the earth, and the warrior who captured fire from heaven. Father of alternating current will make the Physics and Chemistry dominate half the world. Industry will proclaim him as their supreme saint, a banker for the largest benefactors. In the laboratory of Nikola Tesla for the first time is broken atom. There is created a weapon that causes the earthquake vibrations. There are discovered black cosmic rays. Five races will pray to him in the Temple of the future, because they had taught a great secret that Empedocles elements can be watered with the life forces from the ethers. Tesla: Yes, these are some of my most important discoveries. I’m a defeated man. I have not accomplished the greatest thing I could. Journalist: What is it, Mr. Tesla? Tesla: I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring around Saturn. Mankind is not ready for the great and good. In Colorado Springs I soaked the earth by electricity. Also we can water the other energies, such as positive mental energy. They are in the music of Bach or Mozart, or in the verses of great poets. In the Earth’s interior, there are energy of Joy, Peace and Love. Their expressions are a flower that grows from the Earth, the food we get out of her and everything that makes man’s homeland. I’ve spent years looking for the way that this energy could influence people. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food. Life has an infinite number of forms, and the duty of scientists is to find them in every form of matter. Three things are essential in this. All that I do is a search for them. I know I will not find them, but I will not give up on them. Journalist: What are these things? Tesla: One issue is food. What a stellar or terrestrial energy to feed the hungry on Earth? With what wine watered all thirsty, so that they can cheer in their heart and understand that they are Gods? Another thing is to destroy the power of evil and suffering in which man’s life passes! They sometimes occur as an epidemic in the depths of space. In this century, the disease had spread from Earth in the Universe. The third thing is: Is there an excess Light in the Universe? I discovered a star that by all the astronomical and mathematical laws could disappear, and that nothing seems to be modified. This star is in this galaxy. Its light can occur in such density that fits into a sphere smaller than an apple, a heavier than our Solar System. Religions and philosophies teach that man can become the Christ, Buddha and Zoroaster. What I’m trying to prove is wilder, and almost unattainable. This is what to do in the Universe so every being is born as Christ, Buddha or Zoroaster. I know that gravity is prone to everything you need to fly and my intention is not to make flying devices (aircraft or missiles), but teach individual to regain consciousness on his own wings … Further; I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. There are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened. No empty space on this planet, nor in the Universe.. In black holes, what astronomers talk about, are the most powerful sources of energy and life. Journalist: On the window of your room in hotel “Valdorf-Astoria”, on the thirty-third floor, every morning, the birds arrive. Tesla: A man must be sentimental towards the birds. This is because of their wings. Human had them once, the real and visible! Journalist: You have not stopped flying since those distant days in Smiljan! Tesla: I wanted to fly from the roof and I fell: Children’s calculations could be wrong. Remember, the youth wings have everything in life! Journalist: Have you ever married? It is not known that you have affection for love or for a woman. Photos from the youth show you were handsome man. Tesla: Yes. I did not. There are two views: a lot affection or not at all. The center serves to rejuvenate human race. Women for certain people nurtures and strengthen its vitality and spirit. Being single does the same to other people. I chose that second path. Journalist: Your admirers are complaining that you attacking relativity. The strange is your assertion that the matter has no energy. Everything is imbued with energy, where it is? Tesla: First was energy, then matter. Journalist: Mr. Tesla, it’s like when you said that you were born by your father, and not on you. Tesla: Exactly! What about the birth of the Universe? Matter is created from the original and eternal energy that we know as Light .It shone, and there have been appear star, the planets, man, and everything on the Earth and in the Universe. Matter is an expression of infinite forms of Light, because energy is older than it. There are four laws of Creation. The first is that the source of all the baffling, dark plot that the mind cannot conceive, or mathematics measure. In that plot fit the whole Universe. The second law is spreading a darkness, which is the true nature of Light, from the inexplicable and it’s transformed into the Light. The third law is the necessity of the Light to become a matter of Light. The fourth law is: no beginning and no end; three previous laws always take place and the Creation is eternal. Journalist: In the hostility to the theory of relativity you go so far, that you hold lectures against its Creator at your birthday parties.. Tesla: Remember, it is not curved space, but the human mind which cannot comprehend infinity and eternity! If relativity has been clearly understood by its Creator, he would gain immortality, even yet physically, if he is pleased. I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.About Pythagoras and mathematics a scientist may not and must not infringe of these two. Numbers and equations are signs that mark the music of the spheres. If Einstein had heard these sounds, he would not create theories of relativity. These sounds are the messages to the mind that life has meaning, that the Universe exists in perfect harmony, and its beauty is the cause and effect of Creation. This music is the eternal cycle of stellar heavens. The smallest star has completed composition and also, part of the celestial symphony. The man’s heartbeats are part of the symphony on the Earth. Newton learned that the secret is in geometric arrangement and motion of celestial bodies. He recognized that the supreme law of harmony exists in the Universe. The curved space is chaos, chaos is not music. Einstein is the messenger of the time of sound and fury. Journalist: Mr. Tesla, do you hear that music? Tesla: I hear it all the time. My spiritual ear is as big as the sky we see above us. My natural ear I increased by the radar. According to the Theory of Relativity, two parallel lines will meet in infinity. By that Einstein’s curved will straighten. Once created, the sound lasts forever. For a man it can vanish, but continues to exist in the silence that is man’s greatest power. No, I have nothing against Mr. Einstein. He is a kind person and has done many good things, some of which will become part of the music. I will write to him and try to explain that the ether exists, and that its particles are what keep the Universe in harmony, and the life in eternity. Journalist: Tell me, please, under what conditions Angel adopt on the Earth? Tesla: I have ten of them. Keep good records vigilant. Journalist: I will document all your words, Dear Mr. Tesla. Tesla: The first requirement is a high awareness of its mission and work to be done. It must, if only dimly, exist in the early days. Let us not be falsely modest; Oak knows that it is oak tree, a bush beside him being a bush. When I was twelve, I have been sure I will get to Niagara Falls. For most of my discoveries I knew in my childhood that I will achieve them, although not entirely apparent … The second condition to adapt is determination. All that I might, I finished. Journalist: What is the third condition of adjustment, Mr. Tesla? Tesla: Guidance for all the vital and spiritual energies in labor. Therefore purification of the many effects and needs that man has. I therefore have not lost anything, but just gained. So I enjoyed every day and night. Write down: Nikola Tesla was a happy man… The fourth requirement is to adjust the physical assembly with a work. Journalist: What do you mean, Mr. Tesla? Tesla: First, the maintenance of the assembly. Man’s body is a perfect machine. I know my circuit and what’s good for him. Food what nearly all people eat, to me it is harmful and dangerous. Sometimes I visualize that chefs in the world are all in conspiracy against me … Touch my hand. Journalist: It was cold. Tesla: Yes. Bloodstream can be controlled, and many processes in and around us. Why are you frightened young man? Journalist: It’s a story that Mark Twain wrote a mysterious stranger, that wonderful book of Satan, inspired by you. Tesla: The word “Lucifer” is more charming. Mr. Twain likes to joke. As a child I was healed once by reading his books. When we met here and told him about, he was so touched that he cried. We became friends and he often came to my lab. Once he requested to show him a machine that by vibration provokes a feeling of bliss. It was one of those inventions for entertainment, what I sometimes like to do. I warned Mr. Twain as not to remain under these vibrations. He did not listen and stayed longer. It ended by being, like a rocket, holding pants, darted into a certain room. It was a diabolically funny, but I kept the seriousness. But, to adjust the physical circuit, in addition to food, dream is very important . From a long and exhausting work, which required superhuman effort, after one hour of sleep I’d be fully recovered. I gained the ability to manage sleep, to fell asleep and wake up in the time which I have designated. If I do something what I do not understand, I force myself to think about it in my dream, and thus find a solution. Tesla: The fifth condition of adjustment is memory. Perhaps in the most people, the brain is keeper of knowledge about the world and the knowledge gained through the life. My brain is engaged in more important things than remembering, it is picking what is required at a given moment. This is all around us. It should only be consumed. Everything that we once saw, hear, read and learn, accompanies us in the form of light particles. To me, these particles are obedient and faithful. Goethe’s Faust, my favorite book, I learned by heart in German as a student, and now it can all recite. I held my inventions for years ‘in my head “, and only then I realized them. Journalist: You often mentioned the power of visualization. Tesla: I might have to thank to visualization for all that I invented. The events of my life and my inventions are real in front of my eyes, visible as each occurrence or the item. In my youth I was frightened of not knowing what it is, but later, I learned to use this power as an exceptional talent and gift. I nurtured it, and jealously guarded. I also made corrections by visualization on most of my inventions, and finish them that way, by visualization I mentally solve complex mathematical equations. For that gift I have, I will receive rank High Lama in Tibet. My eyesight and hearing are perfect and, dare to say, stronger than other people. I hear the thunder of a hundred fifty miles away, and I see colors in the sky that others cannot see. This enlargement of vision and hearing, I had as a child. Later I consciously developed. Journalist: In youth you have several times been seriously ill. Is it a disease and a requirement to adapt? Tesla: Yes. It is often the result of a lack of exhaustion or vital force, but often the purification of mind and body from the toxins that have accumulated. It is necessary that a man suffers from time to time. The source of most disease is in the spirit. Therefore the spirit and can cure most diseases. As a student I got sick of cholera which raged in the region of Lika. I was cured because my father finally allowed me to study technology, which was my life. Illusion for me was not a disease, but the mind’s ability to penetrate beyond the three dimensions of the earth. I had them all my life, and I have received them as all other phenomena around us. Once, in childhood, I was walking along the river with Uncle and said: “From the water will appear the trout, I’ll throw a stone and it is cut.” That’s what happened. Frightened and amazed, his uncle cried: “Bade retro Satan’s!” He was an educated and he spoke in Latin … I was in Paris when I saw my mother’s death. In the sky, full of light and music floated are wonderful creatures. One of them had a mother’s character, who was looking at me with infinite love. As the vision disappeared, I knew that my mother died. Journalist: What is the seventh adjustment, Mr. Tesla? Tesla: The knowledge of how the mental and vital energy transform into what we want, and achieve control over all feelings. Hindus call it Kundalini Yoga. This knowledge can be learned, for what they need many years or is acquired by birth. The most of them I acquired by birth. They are in the closest connection with a sexual energy that is after the most widespread in the Universe. The woman is the biggest thief of that energy, and thus the spiritual power. I’ve always knew that and was alerted. Of myself I created what I wanted: a thoughtful and spiritual machine. Journalist: A ninth adjustment, Mr. Tesla? Tesla: Do everything that any day, any moment, if possible, not to forget who we are and why we are on Earth. Extraordinary people who are struggling with illness, privation, or the society which hurts them with its stupidity, misunderstanding, persecution and other problems which the country is full of a swamps with insects, leaves behind unclaimed until the end of the work. There are many fallen angels on Earth. Journalist: What is the tenth adaptation? Tesla: It is most important. Write that Mr. Tesla played. He played the whole of his life and enjoyed it. Journalist: Mr. Tesla! Whether it relates to your findings and your work? Is this a game? Tesla: Yes, dear boy. I have so loved to play with electricity! I always cringe when I hear about the one also the Greek who stole fire. A terrible story about studding, and eagles peck at his liver. Did Zeus did not have enough lightning and thunder, and was damaged for one fervor? There is some misunderstanding… Lightning are the most beautiful toys that can be found. Do not forget that in your text stand out: Nikola Tesla was the first man who discovered lightning. Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you’re just talking about angels and their adaptation to the Earth. Tesla: Am I? This is the same. You could write this: he dared to take upon himself the prerogatives of Indri, Zeus and Peron. Imagine one of these gods in a black evening suit, with the bowler hat and wearing white cotton gloves prepares lightning, fires and earthquakes to the New York City elite! Journalist: Readers love the humor of our paper. But you confuse me stating that your findings, which have immense benefits for the people, representing the game. Many will frown on it. Tesla: Dear Mr. Smith, the trouble is that people are too serious. If they were not, they would be happier and much longer would have lived. Chinese proverb says that the seriousness reduces life. Visiting the inn Tai Pe guessed that he visits the Imperial Palace. But that the newspaper readers would not have frowned, let’s get back to things which they consider important. Journalist: They would love to hear what your philosophy is. Tesla: Life is a rhythm that must be comprehended. I feel the rhythm and direct on it and pamper in it. It was very grateful and gave me the knowledge I have. Everything that lives is related to a deep and wonderful relationship: man and the stars, amoebas’ and the sun, the heart and the circulation of an infinite number of worlds. These ties are unbreakable, but they can be tame and to propitiate and begin to create new and different relationships in the world, and that does not violate the old. Knowledge comes from space; our vision is its most perfect set. We have two eyes: the earthly and spiritual. It is recommended that it become one eye. Universe is alive in all its manifestations, like a thinking animal. Stone is a thinking and sentient being, such as plant, beast and a man. A star that shines asked to look at, and if we are not a sizeable self-absorbed we would understand its language and message. His breathing, his eyes and ears of the man must comply with breathing, eyes and ears of the Universe. Journalist: As you say this, it seems to me like I hear Buddhist texts, words or Taoist Parazulzusa. Tesla: That’s right! This means that there is general knowledge and truth that man has always possessed. In my feeling and experience, the Universe has only one substance and one supreme energy with an infinite number of manifestations of life. The best thing is that the discovery of a secret nature, reveals the other. One cannot hide, there are around us, but we are blind and deaf to them. If we emotionally tie ourselves to them, they come to us themselves. There are a lot of apples, but one Newton. He asked for just one apple that fell in front of him. Journalist: A question that might be set at the beginning of this conversation. What was Electricity for you, Dear Mr. Tesla? Tesla: Everything is Electricity. First was the light, endless source from which points out material and distribute it in all forms that represent the Universe and the Earth with all its aspects of life. Black is the true face of Light, only we do not see this. It is remarkable grace to man and other creatures. One of its particles possesses light, thermal, nuclear, radiation, chemical, mechanical and an unidentified energy. It has the power to run the Earth with its orbit. It is true Archimedean lever. Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you’re too biased towards electricity. Tesla: Electricity I am. Or, if you wish, I am the electricity in the human form. You are Electricity; too Mr. Smith, but you do not realize it. Journalist: Is it thus your ability to allow fails of electricity of one million volts trough your body? Tesla: Imagine a gardener who is attacked by herbs. This would indeed be crazy. Man’s body and brain are made from a large amount energy; in me there is the majority of electricity. The energy that is different in everyone is what makes the human “I” or “soul”. For other creatures to their essence, “soul” of the plant is the “soul” of minerals and animals. Brain function and death is manifested in light. My eyes in youth were black, now blue, and as time goes on and strain the brain gets stronger, they are closer to white. White is the color of heaven. Through my window one morning, landed a white dove, which I fed. She wanted to bring me a word that she was dying. From her eyes the light jets were coming out. Never in the eyes of any creature had I not seen so much light, as in that pigeon. Journalist: Personnel in your lab speak about flashes of light, flames and lightning that occur if you are angry or into kind of risk. Tesla: It is the psychic discharge or a warning to be alert. The light was always on my side. Do you know how I discovered the rotating magnetic field and induction motor, which made me became famous when I was twenty-six? One summer evening in Budapest, I watched with my friend Sigetijem sunset. Thousands of fire was turning around in thousands of flaming colors. I remembered Faust and recited his verses and then, as in a fog, I saw spinning magnetic field, and induction motor. I saw them in the sun! Journalist: Hotel service telling that at the time of lightning you isolate into the room and talk to yourselves. Tesla: I talk with lightning and thunder. Journalist: With them? What language, Mr.Tesla? Tesla: Mostly my native language. It has the words and sounds, especially in poetry, what is suitable for it. Journalist: Readers of our magazine would be very grateful if you would interpret that. Tesla: The sound does not exist only in the thunder and lightning, but, in transformation into the brightness and color. A color can be heard. Language is of the words, which means that it is from the sounds and colors. Every thunder and lightning are different and have their names. I call some of them by the names of those who were close in my life, or by those whom I admire. In the sky brightness and thunder live my mother, sister, brother Daniel, a poet Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj and other persons of Serbian history. Names such AsIsaiah, Ezekiel, Leonardo, Beethoven, Goya, Faraday, Pushkin and all burning fires mark shoals and tangles of lightning and thunder, which does not stop all night bringing to the Earth precious rain and burning trees or villages. There is lightning and thunder, and they are the brightest and most powerful, that will not vanish. They are coming back and I recognize them among the thousands. Journalist: For you, science or poetry is the same? Tesla: These are the two eyes of one person. William Blake was taught that the Universe was born from the imagination, that it maintains and it will exist as long as there is a last man on the Earth. With it was a wheel to which astronomers can collect the stars of all galaxies. It is the creative energy identical to the light energy. Journalist: Imagination is more real to you than life itself? Tesla: It gives birth to the life. I have fed by my taught; I’ve learned to control emotions, dreams and visions. I have always cherished, as I nurtured my enthusiasm. All my long life I spent in ecstasy. That was the source of my happiness. It helped me during all these years to bear with work, which was enough for the five lives. The best is to work at night, because the stellar light, and close bond. Journalist: You said that I am, like every being, the Light. This flatter me, but I confess, I do not quite understand. Tesla: Why would you need to understand, Mr. Smith? Suffice it to believe it. Everything is light. In one its ray is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in what great light source we see as the sun. And remember: no one who was there did not die. They transformed into the light, and as such exist still. The secret lies in the fact that the light particles restore their original state. Journalist: This is the resurrection! Tesla: I prefer to call it: return to a previous energy. Christ and several others knew the secret. I am searching how to preserve human energy. It is forms of Light, sometimes straight like heavenly light. I have not looked for it for my own sake, but for the good of all. I believe that my discoveries make people’s lives easier and more bearable, and channel them to spirituality and morality. Journalist: Do you think that time can be abolished? Tesla: Not quite, because the first feature of the energy is that it transforms. It is in perpetual transformation, as clouds of Taoists. But it is possible to leverage the fact that a man preserves consciousness after the earthly life. In every corner of the universe exist energy of life; one of them is immortality, whose origin is outside of man, waiting for him. The universe is spiritual; we are only half that way. The Universe is more moral than us, because we do not know his nature and how to harmonize our lives with it. I am not scientist, science is perhaps the most convenient way to find the answer to the question that always haunt me, and which my days and nights turned into fire. Journalist: What’s the matter? Tesla: How are your eyes brightened!… What I wanted to know is: what happens to a falling star as the sun goes out? Stars fall like dust or seed in this or in other worlds, and the sun be scattered in our minds, in the lives of many beings, what will be reborn as a new light, or cosmic wind scattered in infinity. I understand that this is necessary included in the structure of the Universe. The thing is, though, is that one of these stars and one of these suns, even the smallest, preserves. Journalist: But, Mr. Tesla, you realize that this is necessary and is included in the constitution of the world! Tesla: When a man becomes concuss; that his highest goal must be to run for a shooting star, and tries to capture it; shall understand that his life was given to him because of this and will be saved. Stars will eventually be capable to catch! Journalist: And what will happen then? Tesla: The creator will laugh and say: ”It fall only that you chase her and grab her.” Journalist: Isn’t all of this contrary to the cosmic pain, which so often you mention in your writings? And what is it cosmic pain? Tesla: No, because we are on Earth … It is an illness whose existence the vast majority of people are not aware of. Hence, many other illnesses, suffering, evil, misery, wars and everything else what makes human life an absurd and horrible condition. This disease cannot be completely cured, but awareness shall make it less complicated and hazardous. Whenever one of my close and dear people were hurt, I felt physical pain. This is because our bodies are made as of similar material, and our soul related with unbreakable strands. Incomprehensible sadness that overwhelmed us at times means that somewhere, on the other side on this planet, a child or generous man died. The entire Universe is in certain periods sick of itself, and of us. Disappearance of a star and the appearance of comets affect us more than we can imagine. Relationships among the creatures on the Earth are even stronger, because of our feelings and thoughts the flower will scent even more beautiful or will fall in silence. These truths we must learn in order to be healed. Remedy is in our hearts and evenly, in the heart of the animals that we call the Universe.

Deified Lao Tzu looks peaceful because he knows who he really is. (*) https://www.theschooloflife.com/article/the-great-eastern-philosophers-lao-tzu/ (*) Chinese philosopher Little is truly known about the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu (also known as Laozi or Lao Tze ), who is a guiding figure in Daoism (also translated as Taoism ), a still popular spiritual practice. He is said to have been a record keeper in the court of the central Chinese Zhou Dynasty in the 6th century B.C., and an older contemporary of Confucius . This could be true, but he may also have been entirely mythical - much like Homer in Western culture. It is certainly very unlikely that (as some legends say) he was conceived when his mother saw a falling star, or was born an old man with very long earlobes – or lived 990 years. Lao Tzu in stone, near quanzhou in China. Life & Works Lao Tzu as a deity, carving from the 7th or 8th century Lao Tzu is said to have tired of life in the Zhou court as it grew increasingly morally corrupt. So he left and rode on a water buffalo to the western border of the Chinese empire. Although he was dressed as a farmer, the border official recognised him and asked him to write down his wisdom. According to this legend, what Lao Tzu wrote became the sacred text called the Tao Te Ching . After writing this, Lao Tzu is said to have crossed the border and disappeared from history, perhaps to become a hermit. In reality, the Tao Te Ching is likely to be the compilation of the works of many authors over time. But stories about Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching have passed down through different Chinese philosophical schools for over two thousand years and have become wondrously embellished in the process. Author: Lao Tzu . This is the Stephen Mitchell translation of the Dao De Jing or Tao Te Ching LaoTzu leaving the kingdom on his water buffalo Today there are at least twenty million Daoists, and perhaps even half a billion, living around the world, especially in China and Taiwan . They practise meditation, chant scriptures, and worship a variety of gods and goddesses in temples run by priests. Daoists also make pilgrimages to five sacred mountains in eastern China in order to pray at the temples and absorb spiritual energy from these holy places, which are believed to be governed by immortals. Lao Tzu & Confucius & Buddha Daoist pilgrims visit a temple on mount tai , one of the five sacred mountains in daoism Daoism is deeply intertwined with other branches of thought like Confucianism and Buddhism . Confucius is often believed that was a pupil of Lao Tzu . Similarly, some believe that when Lao Tzu disappeared, he travelled to India and Nepal and either taught or became a Buddha . Confucianist practices to this day not only respect Lao Tzu as a great philosopher but also try to follow many of his teachings. a 12th-century song dynasty painting entitled ‘ confucianism, taoism, and buddhism are one ’ is artistic evidence of the way these three philosophies were mixed over time, and often believed to be fully compatible. There is a story about the three great Asian spiritual leaders ( Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Buddha ): All were meant to have tasted vinegar. Confucius found it sour , much like he found the world full of degenerate people, and Buddha found it bitter , much like he found the world to be full of suffering. But Lao Tzu found the world sweet . This is telling, because Lao Tzu ’s philosophy tends to look at the apparent discord in the world and see an underlying harmony guided by something called the ‘ Dao ’. “the vinegar tasters” Daoism Beliefs The Tao Te Ching is somewhat like the Bible : it gives instructions (at times vague and generally open to multiple interpretations) on how to live a good life . It discusses the “ Dao ,” or the “ way ” of the world, which is also the path to virtue, happiness, and harmony . This “ way ” isn’t inherently confusing or difficult. Lao Tzu wrote, “ the great Dao is very even, but people like to take by-ways. ” In Lao Tzu ’s view, the problem with virtue isn’t that it is difficult or unnatural , but simply is that we resist the very simple path that might make us most content . In order to follow the Dao , we need to go beyond simply reading and thinking about it . Instead we must learn wu wei ('flowing' or 'effortless action') , a sort of purposeful acceptance of the way of the Dao and live in harmony with it . This might seem lofty and bizarre, but most of Lao Tzu ’s suggestions are actually very simple. An immortal (here walking on water) has certainly mastered wu wei , living in harmony with the Dao . First, we ought to take more time for stillnes s . “ To the mind that is still ,” Lao Tzu said, “ the whole universe surrenders .” We need to let go of our schedules, worries and complex thoughts for a while and simply experience the world . We spend so much time rushing from one place to the next in life, but Lao Tzu reminds us “ nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ” It is particularly important that we remember that certain things, like grieving, growing wiser, developing a new relationship - only happen on their own schedule , like the changing of leaves in the fall or the blossoming of the bulbs we planted months ago . An 11th-century chinese painting depicts a scholar practising stillness by studying nature in a meadow. When we are still and patient we also need to be open. We need to be reminded to empty ourselves of frivolous thoughts so that we will observe what is really important . “ The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness. ” - Lao Tzu said, - “ Empty yourself of everything, let your mind become still. ” If we are too busy, too preoccupied with anxiety or ambition , we will miss a thousand moments of the human experience that are our natural inheritance . We need to be awake to the way light reflects off of ripples on a pond, the way other people look when they are laughing, the feeling of the wind playing with our hair. These experiences reconnect us to parts of ourselves. This is another key point of Lao Tzu’ s writing: we need to be in touch with our real selves . We spend a great deal of time worrying about who we ought to become, but we should instead take time to be who we already are at heart . We might rediscover a generous impulse, or a playful side we had forgotten, or simply an old affection for long walks. Our ego is often in the way of our true self, which must be found by being receptive to the outside world rather than focusing on some critical, too-ambitious internal image . “ When I let go of what I am, ” Lao Tzu wrote, “ I become what I might be. ” Deified Lao Tzu looks peaceful because he knows who he really is. a sculpture from between the 8th and 11th century. What is the best book about philosophy one could look at? For Lao Tzu , it wasn’t a volume (or a scroll) but the book of nature . It is the natural world, in particular its rocks, water, stone, trees and clouds, that offers us constant, eloquent lessons in wisdom and calm – if only we remembered to pay attention a little more often . In Lao Tzu ’s eyes, most of what is wrong with us stems from our failure to live ‘in accordance with nature’ . Our envy, our rage, our manic ambition, our frustrated sense of entitlement, all of it stems from our failure to live as nature suggests we should . Of course, ‘ nature ’ has many moods and one can see in it almost anything one likes depending on one’s perspective. But when Lao Tzu refers to nature , he is thinking of some very particular aspects of the natural world ; he focuses in on a range of attitudes he sees in it which, if we manifested them more regularly in our own lives, would help us find serenity and fulfilment . Lao Tzu liked to compare different parts of nature to different virtues . He said, “ The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way (Dao) .” Each part of nature can remind us of a quality we admire and should cultivate ourselves - the strength of the mountains, the resilience of trees, the cheerfulness of flowers. Daoism advises us to look to trees as case studies in graceful endurance . They are constantly tormented by the elements , and yet because they are an ideal mixture of the supple and the resilient, they respond without some of our customary rigidity and defensiveness and therefore survive and thrive in ways we often don’t . Trees are an image of patience too, for they sit out long days and nights without complaint, adjusting themselves to the slow shift of the seasons – showing no ill-temper in a storm, no desire to wander from their spot for an impetuous journey; they are content to keep their many slender fingers deep in the clammy soil, metres from their central stems and far from the tallest leaves which hold the rain water in their palms . Water is another favourite Daoist source of wisdom , for it is soft and seemingly gentle and yet, when it is given sufficient time, is powerful enough to mould and reshape stone. We might adopt some of its patient, quiet determination when dealing with certain family members or frustrating political situations in the workplace . Daoist philosophy gave rise to a school of Chinese landscape painting still admired today for awakening us to the virtues of the natural world . At one level, it seems strange to claim that our characters might evolve in the company of a waterfall or a mountain, a pine tree or a celandine , objects which after all have no conscious concerns and so, it would seem, cannot either encourage nor censor behaviour. And yet an inanimate object may, to come to the lynchpin of Lao Tzu ’s claim for the beneficial effects of nature, still work an influence on those around it. Natural scenes have the power to suggest certain values to us – mountains dignity, pines resolution, flowers kindness – and in unobtrusive ways, may therefore act as inspirations to virtue . The idea that the contemplation of nature is a source of perspective and tranquility is well known in theory, but so easy to overlook because we take it for granted – and never give it the time and focus required. LaoTzu in stone, near quanzhou in china Often our heads are filled with unhelpful phrases and ideas : things that have wormed their way into our imaginations and, by stirring up anxieties, make it harder for us to cope. For example, ‘ Have the courage to live out your dreams ,’ ‘ Never compromise ,’ ‘ Fight until you win… ’. These can (in certain cases) be a kind of poison , for which Lao Tzu ’s words – combined with natural scenes – are the ideal antidote. "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." Restelo, Belém, Algés today (2022). Picture uploaded in Googlemaps. Drone img capture revealing the urban pressure near riverside Tagus. Restelo, Belém, Algés today (1947). Coloured picture showing a wheat field that extended to Tagus river. " Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Do not resist them. That only causes sorrow. " The words of Lao Tzu set a mood . They are peaceful, reassuring and gentle . And this is a frame of mind we often find it difficult to hold onto, though it serves us well for many tasks in life: getting the children off to school, watching one’s hair go grey, accepting the greater talent of a rival, realising that one’s marriage will never be very easy… " Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. " It would be a mistake to take Lao Tzu ’s sayings literally in all cases. To rejoice in the way everything happens (a mediocre first draft, a car crash, a wrongful imprisonment, a brutal stabbing…) would be foolish. But what he says is, on certain occasions, extremely helpful: when your child has a different view of life from you but one which is full of unexpected insight nevertheless; when you are not invited out but have a chance to stay home and examine your thoughts for a change ; when your bicycle is perfectly nice – even though its not made of carbon fibre. 6 ways to be in flow with your life from the philosophy of Lao Tzu (Philosophies for Life Channel). 6 ways to be in flow with your life from the philosophy of Lao Tzu Let go of your ego Dare not to be first Let go of your desire to rush things Embrace Change Be content with little Accept your flaws Taoism is a Chinese philosophy attributed to Lao Tzu which contributed to the folk religion of the people primarily in the rural areas of China and became the official religion of the country under the Tang Dynasty. Taoism is therefore both a philosophy and a religion . Taoism teaches to embrace wonder and the joy in living gracefully with style. Lao Tzu is also credited as the writer of Taoism’s most sacred text, the Tao Te Ching and his words can apply to people all over the world. 4 Ways To Simplify Your Life from the philosophy of Lao Tzu Cultivate the three treasures of Taoism Go with the flow Let go Find your balance 4 ways to simplify your life from the philosophy of Lao Tzu (Philosophies for Life Channel). Conclusion We know that nature is good for our bodies, because nature feeds us . Lao Tzu ’s contribution has been to remind us that it is also full of what deserves to be called philosophical wisdom : lessons that can make a particular impression on us because they reach us through our eyes and ears, rather than just our reason . This 12th-century painting depicts a daoist temple nestled in nature. Of course, there are issues that must be addressed by action, and there are times for ambition. Yet Lao Tzu ’s work is important for Daoists and non-Daoists alike, especially in a modern world distracted by technology and focused on what seem to be constant, sudden, and severe changes. His words serve as a reminder of the importance of stillness, openness, and discovering buried yet central parts of ourselves . Related interesting videos [...] Some of the best of Lao Tzy's quotes.

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«There is one experience that every human of every language and culture shares - the experience of Birth.» "Our recollection of birth are hazy at best; they have the feel and aura, not so much of memories as of mystical transfigurations. It would be astonishing if this profound early experience did not influence our myths and religions, our philosophy, and our science. The birth of a child evokes the mystery of other origins - the beginnings and ends of worlds, infinity and eternity." - Carl Sagan Same old questions Astronomers have come to the days, when they can and will apply the most far-reaching efforts to study the cosmos. Giant new telescopes, and vast computational power are part of this historic quest: to peer into space and time, to find out how the universe gave birth to galaxies and planets, to discern the amazing world of gravity and test theories by Einstein and other scientists. Understanding nature in the greatest picture (including human nature ) is valuable at both practical and emotional levels. Where did the universe and all the things in it come from? What sense does it have? Did life, necessary and inevitably, appeared in the universe? These are terribly difficult questions to answer, and although this hall isn't able to deliver visitors those clear and juicy answers, it exhibits the general knowledge humanity have of the universe. Breaking the Word The word ' Universe ' (while synonymous of ' Cosmos ', 'Creation'), come from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe” ), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one” ), from uni -, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”). These two roots combined also mean the ' union of (all) versions' (union of all other forms of the same type of thing), of all versions of History whether having different outcomes or not. It ought to be understood as all the different views of the truth and possibilities overlaped of the Big History . Nevertheless, Universe represents the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself , so the first thing to check is, what does exists in the universe, what existences are there. Cosmology is the study of the universe at its largest scales, including theories of: its origins; its dynamics and evolution; and its future. Cosmogony is the (scientific) study of the origin of the cosmos (or of reality itself). Cosmography deals with mapping the universe. Cosmetology is the art or profession that deals with beauty product application and hair styling. Astronomy deals with celestial objects (rather than the universe as a whole). (*) in https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/cosmologyandcosmogony/   Cosmology Types of Cosmology Physical cosmology , incorporating physics, astrophysics, and astronomy. Physical cosmology is sometimes considered to have arrived as an experimental science during the 20th century. Religious cosmology , involving origin stories and mythologies from religious traditions; Metaphysical cosmology , dealing with questions "beyond science", such as: the cause of the origin of the universe; whether its existence is necessary; whether it has a purpose; about its ultimate composition; and even, the nature of consciousness; without requiring a religious tradition; Esoteric cosmology , which deals, with, well, start with the Wikipedia article.... (Go check the SEP ( Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ), this site has an article on the relationship between physical and religious cosmology. How do the various cosmologies mentioned in the article seem to simultaneously support theistic and atheistic viewpoints?) The Big Bang Cosmology The Big Bang Theory (BBT) is today's most accepted cosmology. It accounts for how the universe is thought to have developed after something triggered an expansion from some massively hot and dense gravitational singularity, whose size was smaller than an atom. The BBT is the prevailing cosmological model that explains the universe's origin. According to this theory, the universe began as an incredibly hot and dense singularity approximately 13.8 billion years ago. Some scientists and philosophers have proposed theories, such as the idea of a multiverse or a cyclic model in which the universe goes through an infinite series of expansions and contractions. What it is not The BBT does not say: where the supposed singularity came from; what caused the initial expansion, or how or why it occurred; that something actually exploded; anything about the origin of life (though origins of matter, energy, and structure are considered); that an external creator is required (though this is embraced by many theists); that an external creator is ruled out . The History of Universe according to the BBT First, a little of the evidence for the theory. I'm not sure who the author of this video is, but it is a nice introduction... The following timeline is summarized from Neil de Grasse Tyson 's article The Greatest Story Ever Told : 0 to 10-43s, 1050K: All speculative physics. General relativistic and quantum mechanical phenomena indistinguishable. All forces unified. ⇓ Gravity splits from the other three forces. ⇓ The strong force splits from the electroweak, triggering inflation, universe grows by a factor of 1050. Matter/energy density get smoothed, but not perfectly so. ⇓ Photons can now create matter-antimatter pairs, but somehow slightly more matter remains after annihilation. ⇓ Cooling continues. Electoweak force splits into electromagnetic and weak forces. Universe is now too cool for spontaneous matter-antimatter creation. ⇓ Protons, neutrons start to form (from quarks). Electrons are still free, scattering photons back and forth. ⇓ At about 380,000 years, the universe cools below a few thousand K. Electrons get snatched up by the proton-neutron things to make atoms: predominately hydrogen and helium, with a tiny bit of lithium. Photons are now free! The universe lights up. This is the CBR. ⇓ Over the next few billion years, gravity starts creating large structures which will be come galactic filaments, sheets and clusters. Galaxies form. Stars are born. sentiencetv. Understanding the Expansion of Space Why do most of the galaxies appear to be moving away from us? Are we at the center? Actually no — every point in the universe sees the same thing: galaxies flying away from itself; there's no center. How can this be? It's because space is expanding . Imagine raisins in bread as it expands while baking. Or people sitting on a huge rubber sheet being expanded. In the following diagram: Note how the farther away something is to begin with, the farther away it flies in a fixed time period! https://universesandbox.com/   Related Videos Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline. The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History . The film, created by the Museum, was part of a 2010 exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan. From an Youtube playlist called the 'Meaning of Life?' of Eric Whitacre's "Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe"  is a unique film and musical experience inspired by one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time: the Hubble Telescope's Deep Field image. Show casing some of the highest resolution images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Experience anew the detail in these inspiring images, snatched from distant galaxies, exploding stars, brilliant gas clouds, and black holes. Cosmogony While it's difficult (impossible?) to test theories about the origin of everything, people have certainly given opinions (often backed up by appeals to related experimental data). For example, big bang could be explained in different ways: Time is eternal, but at some point a gravitational singularity underwent a phase transition into the (expanding) universe we know today; or The big bang event created the very idea of time itself. Cosmogony is a scientific field, but one can't help bring in Philosophy when talking about origin(s) . Immanuel Kant 's First Antinomy , on Space and Time , is worth reading. Other recent views pose interesting questions and looks for answers based on Laws of Physics, Relativity, Quantum field, Strings Theory , and the fundamental constants of Physics such as light speed, planck, gravitational, Zero-point energy, background radiation. It doesn't seem to be an agreement about, if: is this a universe of light - behind the shadows of dark energy and dark matter that eclipses all of the big bang light, turning space into dark only enlightened by the twinkling lights of galaxies; or is this a universe of dark only enlightened by the twinkling lights of galaxies, where gravity wins sucking everything into an uncountable number of blackholes, that will turn the universe into total nothingness hopelessly forever. Religious Cosmology Sextus Empiricus - a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher and Empiric school physician (2nd. Cent. BCE) distinguished between three types of philosophies: those that claim to have found truth, such as the philosophies of Aristotle, Epicurus , and the Stoics ; those who deny the possibility of finding it, like the Academicians ; and those who are still looking for it, like the Skeptical School . In the vast scape of existence, the majority of creation lies beyond our limited perception and knowledge. This limitless expanse of ignorance is referred to as Shiva. Sadhguru explains, only when one explores his ignorance, knowledge can be born. Social scientists and historians often study these cosmologies and relate them to the historical and social context in which they were written. For example, consider the two origin stories in the Tanakh . They each describe an order of creation events: Genesis 1-2:4a Genesis 2:4b-24 Heaven and a formless Earth (but with water) Heaven and earth Light Water, flowing out of the ground Firmament (sky dome) A man (Adam), made from the soil Dry land, vegetation A garden of water (Eden), vegetation, lots of trees, one special Sun, moon, stars "knowledge" tree, and four rivers Fish, sea-monsters, birds Land animals, birds Land animals (cattle, creeping things, and wild animals), humans A woman (Eve) How might we explain the structure and content of these stories? Here are two explanations: Story 1 was written by farmers and city dwellers, living in river basins worried about floods (hence the fish); the story talks of humans being created in the image of God, taking "dominion over the earth" and shaping it to their needs, celebrating civilization and progress. Story 2 was written by sheperds and camel drivers, living in semi-arid areas (hence NO fish); the story tells of humans who are servants of the garden and cast out because they tried to be godlike, and of the virtues of the simple pastoral life. The two stories complement each other by talking about two sides of human nature: our power over nature but the need to, perhaps, not get carried away. Eschatology If cosmogony deals with the ultimate beginning and cosmology deals with what happens just after the beginning, then with could talk about "physical eschatology" as dealing with the ultimate end.

Paradoxes are strange objects of thought. We tend not to like them very much, largely because they resist immediate intuition and seem to contradict what we believe geometry—or nature itself—should be telling us. In the example discussed here, distance is always understood in the usual Euclidean sense . All spheres (or circles) are centered at fixed points and have constant radius. All squares, cubes, and hypercubes are orthogonal and normalized. Nothing exotic is assumed—except dimension. Two-Dimensional Space (2D) To simplify matters, we begin in two dimensions. Consider 2^2 = 4 circles, centered at the points: { (1,1),(1,−1),(−1,1),(−1,−1) } each with radius r=1. These circles are compactly packed and inscribed in a square of side length 4, centered at the origin O=(0,0). It is always possible to place a red circle , centered at the origin, tangent to all four circles. Since half the side of the square is L=4/2=2, the red circle is clearly contained within the square. But what is its radius? Using the Pythagorean Theorem , the distance from the origin to each circle’s center is sqrt{1^2 + 1^2} = sqrt{2}. Subtracting the radius of the outer circles (r=1), the red circle has radius sqrt{2} - 1 which is indeed smaller than L=2. Everything behaves as expected. Three-Dimensional Space (3D) Now move to three dimensions. We now have 2^3 = 8 spheres, centered at {(±1,±1,±1)}, each again with radius r=1. These spheres are compactly arranged and inscribed in a cube of side length 4, centered at O=(0,0,0). Once again, we can place a purple sphere  centered at the origin, tangent to all eight surrounding spheres. Half the cube’s edge is still L=2, so the purple sphere lies inside the cube. Applying the Pythagorean Theorem in three dimensions, the distance from the origin to any sphere’s center is sqrt{1^2 + 1^2 + 1^2} = sqrt{3} Subtracting the radius of the surrounding spheres, the purple sphere has radius sqrt{3} - 1 which is still less than L=2. Again, no surprise. Hyperdimensional Space (9D and Beyond) Now the situation changes. In nine dimensions, we have 2^9 = 512  hyperspheres , centered at all points of the form (±1,±1,±1,±1,±1,±1,±1,±1,±1), each with radius r=1. These hyperspheres are compactly packed and inscribed in a 9-dimensional hypercube  of side length 4. As before, it is possible to place a black hypersphere  centered at the origin, tangent to all 512 hyperspheres. Here, the paradox begins. The half-edge of the hypercube is still L=4/2=2. In nine dimensions, the radius of the central hypersphere becomes sqrt{9} - 1 = 2. Thus, the black hypersphere has exactly the same radius as half the edge of the hypercube . It is contained within the hypercube—but it is also tangent to its faces. This is the critical threshold. Beyond the Ninth Dimension For dimensions n>9, the radius of the central hypersphere becomes sqrt{n} - 1 > 2. From this point onward, the black hypersphere exceeds the faces of the hypercube  that contains the 2^n surrounding hyperspheres. As dimension increases, the central hypersphere increasingly protrudes through the faces of the hypercube. Eventually, the hypercube becomes almost engulfed—nearly disappearing inside the hypersphere. This is deeply counter-intuitive: the object that was once safely contained now overflows its container, despite still being tangent to all the surrounding hyperspheres. Why the Vertices Are Never Crossed Interestingly, despite this overflow, something remarkable remains true. Each of the 2^n vertices of the hypercube lies at a distance from the origin given by sqrt{n}​. This distance is always greater  than the distance from the origin to the centers of the surrounding hyperspheres minus their radius. In other words, every hypersphere pairs naturally with a vertex of the hypercube. As we increase dimension, the black hypersphere expands between  the surrounding hyperspheres—through their interstices—never crossing any vertex of the hypercube. It escapes through the faces, not the corners. Conclusion This geometric construction reveals a subtle but powerful lesson about high-dimensional spaces: our low-dimensional intuition fails dramatically as dimension grows. Containment, proximity, and even the meaning of “inside” and “outside” begin to blur. The paradox of sphere conditioning shows that in high dimensions, space behaves less like a box—and more like a fabric with widening gaps. What appears impossible in three dimensions becomes inevitable in nine. And beyond.