So there is no energy per-se, it's just an expression, which translates into another expression? We are all in this loop of harvesting and expending this energy. As you state, energy is simply a measurement of a perceived but incalculable natural phenomena. Motion, translates to force, translates to work, translates to power over time. Again these are conventions for a process which appears to amount to accomplishment. If the universe is already finished and perfect, what is left to do? To what extent are we just passengers in our bodies?
If the universe is already finished and perfect, what is left to do?
Essentially, realizing the absolute nature of the universe and thereby the nature of the self. Realization of the absolute isn't optional for a "self contained, self processing" universe, but such a realization requires perception, and must be novel to the perceiver. In other words, to realize the absolute, one must first not realize the absolute, or else there's no "freedom" involved.
Imagine building a machine that does some task "X". The machine has no "free will", in fact it can't really do anything but task "X". Now imagine building an AI which can do all sorts of tasks, and setting it to the task of learning how to do task "X".
For the AI to learn task "X", it must first NOT know anything about task "X". If it already knew about task "X", then it would be akin to the machine which performs task "X", and wouldn't be considered "intelligent", even in the limited sense. However if the AI bot knows nothing of task "X" one day, but then knows about it later, we can say it's learned something.
Humanity is in the same predicament. Essentially, we all realize the "Absolute" by default, but the trick of "free will" is that we don't know that we realize the "Absolute", or else we'd just be like the machine built to perform a task but w/o intelligence.
You know why I like listening to Gurdjieff? You can't predict the sound, only the timing.
or else we'd just be like the machine built to perform a task but w/o intelligence.
In Tai Chi, you must be dumb, not a smart person, not sophisticated. You just go through the motions not thinking about what it means, and this is the correct way of doing it. Letting the lessons come to you as you do.
Like the old Zen koan about the cloud being just a cloud to the beginner, to the student it no longer becomes a cloud, and then to the master it returns to being just a cloud.
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