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	   The Immovable Object

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<br>I conceived of a parable once about a man that wandered into the desert determined to move the immovable.


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<br> <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  This was his subjective vision of success, and he was stoically adamant about achieving this  goal.  A strong and cunning man, he carried ropes and bamboo stalks with him on a two days march until he came upon a massive boulder next to a stunningly pristine lake.  He screamed into the air with glee and fury, “Now I can move the immovable!”  Measuring the circumference of the boulder, he estimated its weight and calculated the correct amount of pressure needed to move the boulder.  Then he built a simple scaffold that supported bags of sand he filled from the long dead lake bed.  He then set the bags to fall on a lever at the base of the boulder, so that cutting the ropes that supported the bags at the same time would result in a simultaneous drop of weight directly upon the lever.  To ensure this drop, he burnt the ropes so that they were hanging by a thin charred thread that could be easily sliced by a hatchet.  His apriori reasoning and subsequent engineering turned out to be a success, and the boulder moved about an inch!  He screamed into the air, “Now I am successful!  I have moved the immovable!”

<br><br>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  Yet the realization then dawned upon him that the vary nature of the boulder, its rigidity and firmness, was the very means by which it was movable.  The very fact that he had budged the boulder proved that it was not immovable.  He camped for the night, when a dream relinquished the realization that it was not the boulder that was immovable, but the pristine lake!  By it’s own submissiveness and acquiescence to force was it immovable.  In the morning he set upon moving it.   Three days he spent tearing down his previous structure, and attempting to build a drainage ditch where the water would flow so that the lake could be moved, however the ancient salt bed was too flat for any drainage to work.  Then he set upon building a basic pump, which was successful, however after the pump was finished, he did not have the recourses to build an aqueduct with which the water could drain away.  He was furious!  He banged his fists against the water level, but the water only returned to its previous position.  Starving and exhausted the stubborn man surrendered, gathering his gear, he set off into the sunset.  Upon doing so he succeeded.  How?


<br><br>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   It is a riddle?  The man succeeded in two ways.  One, he was an immovable object set upon moving the immovable.  Upon changing his mind, acknowledging, and surrendering to his limitations, he had moved the immovable.   Also he did move the lake!  How?  By being one with the lake.  After four days in the desert, surely he had drunk from the lake.  His life force was maintained by the lake water flowing through his veins.  He was a large skin of water.  Also, he had no doubt bathed in the lake, leaving behind skin flakes that had gone to feed the ecosystem that resided there.  In a way he had left himself at the lake, as much as he had taken the lake with him, thus succeeding in moving the immovable.  By his own value system he was a success, though he did not even realize it.  In being one with the lake did he succeed.


<br><br>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   The moral, though I should not even explicate it, is be like the lake.  When one is like the boulder, it is merely the illusion of stability.  The stubborn man can be manipulated simply by his stubborn nature.  The truly free individual, unsusceptible to coercion, is that which acquiesces to everything that comes upon it, surrendering so much that it no longer exists.  At that point only the Tao exists.  When you stay true to your untainted nature, you are unaffected by the force of others.  You are pure.


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