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(“The Particle In The Wave”, 2018, original encaustic) Down to Zero In the great equation of Life Everything eventually cancels out As it naturally balances And leaves us down to zero. From the perspective of static The dynamic is the illusion From the perspective of dynamic The static is the illusion. Buddhism with its notion of a final Nirvana Takes the former Taoism with its effortlessly flowing Wu-Wei Takes the latter. That is the East, while in the West This paradoxical duality is expressed Succinctly by quantum physics As the wave and particle nature of light. The reality is always, of course, different Than what we think, when we’re at zero And left with what it means to be alive; In work or play, depending on our view. (7/21/25)

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