Chapter 39 for Editing and Discussion

Riding waves of Chaos,
sea is salty & warm.
All beings are permeable
to the pull of its flow,
undertow seduces,
ebbing, surging,
give receiving.

When man tries to order the Chao
sky becomes dirty dingy 
worlds are angry & sterile
with the looking glass shattered
& the sea washes away all the trace.

When your sense of wonder arouses
even more questions than it counters,
hearts become as like mirrors,
absorb, echo, reflecting
tsunamis inside
the surface remains tranquil.

The original:

The ancients attained oneness.
Heaven attained oneness and became clear.
Earth attained oneness and became stable.
Spirits attained oneness and became divine.
The valleys attained oneness and became fertile.
Creatures attained oneness and lived and grew.
Kings and nobles attained oneness and became leaders.
What made them so is oneness.

Without clarity, heaven would crack.
Without stability, the earth would quake.
Without divinity, spirits would dissipate.
Without fertility, the valleys would be barren.
Without life and growth, creatures would die off.
Without leadership, kings and nobles would fall.

Therefore humility is the basis for nobility,
and the low is the basis for the high.
Thus kings and nobles call themselves
orphans, lonely, and unworthy.
Do they not depend upon the common people for support?
Dismantle the parts of a chariot, and there is no chariot.
Rather than tinkle like jade, rumble like rocks.

What I like from our chapter is, "When man tries to order the Chao... worlds are angry & sterile". I'd like to keep that. Otherwise, the TTC chapter is (once again) about balance... but that doesn't mean we can't substitute something else in there, like patter recognition, Thinker/Prover, Horrormirth, etc.

Cram's Reply:

I'm with you... starting from the bottom...

When man tries to order the Chao,
the sky becomes dirty dingy 
worlds are angry & sterile

Words reduce the Chao
A confused mind cannot grasp it
and cannot drop it, either

I don't think we've said anything new yet. we can cram something else in here, I think.