Good thread Steve,

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

This seems to suggest that a sage has some power in which to change things. A choice perhaps.
Is this a pre determination question?

Restated: Are variables infinite, each with an opposite?
Shit here I go rambling! Nothing to do with your post.

I'll try again. "How can things be out of balance?"
The answer for me is, if this is greater than that.

Balance is just a preception.

In peace,
gar

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: " "In-sync" suggests a
: balance.... "
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: Which for me, gar, begs the question,
: "How can things be
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: I think I sometimes confuse personal
: feelings of unease with being out of
: "conformity" with this or that,
: but in reality even those uncomfortable
: feelings are the way of things. Dao.
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: I could not recognize bliss if I didn't also
: know horror.
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: The one defines the other.
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