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A Tao Model of Gold Eggs

The "Get Tao" icon (left) is explained more or less suggestively below, as an all-round basis for gaining solvency assets. Two other pages (links follow) give specifications and more details, and relate it to a school of Zen (Soto Zen).
"It may seem easy, but it doesn't come naturally." Major advances that require much and careful thought are like that.
On this and the following three or four pages is the utterly simple (to look at) philosophy that might help men and women and their children to find and perhaps also gain essential solvency or solvencies - and go on to gain 'gold eggs' (assets) if the times, hovering conditions and perhaps associates favour it or do not use negative sanctions too much and often against it.

This page takes you into the basics of an all-round solvency-building scheme - and its very vital links. This gain-dao-scheme is called Tick Tack Toe, or TTT in short.
A second page at this site shows how the generalised solvency schema can be put into a wider format, a Zen essay format in the steps of Dogen Roshi (1200-53). He used to present points of his Shobogenzo Zuimonki almost identically, it has been pointed out [MORE].
Another page takes you into underlying structural finesses and other riches corollary to the schema, and some other vital points - including general resevations - that come in handy again and again [MORE].

Implementing strong, good solvency-measures may take time. One should beware of that and bulwark good things to one's ability.

Simplified Pictural Survey
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Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout:

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Meanings of model

THE WORD model comes from Latin 'modulus', small measure. 'Model' means many things today, including:

Structural design;
A pattern of something to be made, perhaps also for imitation or emulation;
A description used to help visualize something;
A system or version of a system of propositions about something (an issue);
A patterned prototype for performance;
An exemplification of an issue in conception.

On this page and one or more following pages, several models will be shown and explained somewhat. These models are for operating and not fooling oneself. But the intrinsic value of models is one thing; how they are actually made use of is another, and far more important.
Our stand is that a fine model assists solvency. Solvency is a key concept below. the quality or state of being solvent. It suggests being able to pay all one's debts. There are many ways of assisting it, and many levels or fields of solvency. Debts are of many kinds too. A debt is something owed, an obligation that can be due to demand, promise, contract, responsibility and duty, and so on.
But let us adopt a wide look into this, much in tune with a recent Nobel-prize-winning theory in economy in 1992, minimal solvency is had by a balance between what comes in and what goes out. If more goes out than what comes in, you get impoverished, and as a result lose in the competition of making a living quite easily. One should try to preserve one's assets and make them work to one's benefit, and go for more in all right ways. That is included in the quite all-round model.

Solvence of 'Capital'

In a 1989 lecture, Nobel prize-winner Gary S. Becker (1930 -) described the idea of human capital, the core of his approach:

To most of you, capital means a bank account, one hundred shares of IBM, assembly lines or steel plants . . . These are all forms of capital in the sense that they yield income and other useful outputs over a long period of time.
But I am going to talk about a different sort of capital. Schooling, a computer training course, expenditures on medical care and lectures on the virtues of punctuality and honesty are capital too in the sense that they improve health, raise earnings or add to a persons's appreciation of literature over much of his or her lifetime. Consequently, it is fully in keeping with the capital concept as traditionally defined to say that expenditures on education, training, medical care, etc. are investments in capital.
However, these produce human, not physical or financial, capital because you cannot separate a person from his or her knowlege, skills, health or values the way it is possible to move financial and physical assets while the owner stays put. [Link]

Further, from another interview with Becker:

"What has the Nobel Prize done for you?"
Becker: Well, a lot. Financially, of course, but more than that. It made my work better known and more acceptable. Winning the Nobel Prize is a stamp of approval. Many of my students told me that THEY benefited a lot from it. Their work is now more respected. [Link]

Hence, building up assets or reserves and conserving enough of them is what much is about. There are health reserves, mind reserves (education should ideally help it), and reserves of material wealth. Humans need a blend that works on all levels. With enough reserves we are able to take part in social life and "blend in" - to give and take, share benefits, and so on. Much depends on solid reserves.
Below we go deep into the philosophy part, and you do not have to be a physicist or economist to get the gist of these models either. Great efforts were made to make them very easy to access.

Tao-aligned Theory First

THE FIRST topics revolve about dao (Tao) theory, which some famous physicists hold dear. It gives a much unified, over-all picture (scheme) of a totality. The totality (field) is divided in two, a limit is between them, and "the next you know" is a theory for getting gold eggs - presumably. Good luck with that.

To dao Lessons

Figure 1. Platform images.

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Figure 2. Tao accession stages: "the beads" on a "string".
The little figure to the left above is used as an iconic marker on top of essays that portray a presumably handy enough route; a route that may yield both a balancing and a way out if followed. The right figure above is a token of the underlying, basic philosophy it ties in with and relates to. The connection between the two of them is to be made clear.
Both top figures relate to a favourable Taoistic philosophy.
Also, to the right is another little marker that shows the same as the top left figure. These figures suggest you can build Tao. We show you how below, in very rough outline.

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Figure 3: Two ways to represent a whole - a circle and a square.
According to Chinese myth, before the world began there was chaos shaped like a hen's egg. The huge Pan Gu separated this egg into Yin and Yang. Yin formed the earth, Yang formed the sky. Yin stood for all the female, wet, dark things of nature, while Yang stood for all the male, dry and bright things. There could be no perfect happiness till there was a balance between Yin and Yang.

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Yin yang symbol
In Figure 3 a unity (whole) may be represented by such as a circle or a square. Both are old symbols in use.
Each is divided in halves. The left circle is a simplification as compared to the yin-yang figure (right). Figure 3 is to indicate how a a yin-yang figure can be converted into a circle of halves, which in turn are transposed to halves of a square. It is very simple.

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Figure 4. Square Tao-figure.

Figure 4 shows the right part of Figure 3. A pair of axes, the x axis nd the y axis, are introduced, and their origo (0).
By converting the rotating yin-yang figure (Fig. 1) to a square with a diagonal dividing line between the halves, we get access to much elaborate idea-making - in stages.

Basic cybernetical handling is into it

Figure 5. Three cybernetical layers introduced into the novel Tao figure.

There is a philosophical side of cybernetics. We take off from the thinking of Dr. Norbert Wiener. The square has been allotted three layers. They correspond to the three aspects of matter in the view of Dr. Wiener, founder of cybernetics. They are:

Information;
Energy;
Solid matter.

The scales of the x axis and y axis do not have to be of equal length in this representation model.

Conservation of assets

Figure 6: Vertical conservation segments.

In addition to horisontal layers, vertical strands may be had too. Here they are. The segments speak of accruements and their possible conservation or dwindling along the x axis. How to interpret it, basically: The farther to the right, the more accruement.

Figure 7. One Way pops up.

Figure 7 helps us see just how Tao may be accessed. A route opens in the middle of the yang field (Cf. Fig. 4) and goes on from there to the Boden, ground, along the x axis, where it turns left toward Origo; that's where the two axes meet in the left bottom corner of this figure. From Origo the route (slanting line upwards) is told of as the Way, or Tao. The Way is the diagonal dividing area between ying and yang, and represents balancing and tact that is required to carry on too.
Further, Tao may be divided in steps according to the three layers of cybernetics. The next figure helps to see more of this:

Figure 8. The structural route is presented.

Figure 8 too hints at how the tao route of Figure 2 comes about, and the next figure is a mnemonic help that focuses on the nose, just like Pablo Picasso in very many fine pictures.

Figure 9. "The Way is nosy enough." Inside (yang) is to the right of the nose ridge (diagonal), outside (yin) to the left. Mnemonic figure.

Figure 10. Tao accession stages: "the beads" on a "string".

Figure 10 helps us to see how fields (areas) of the Tao figure are linked in a string that can be a string of accomplishments. You build from the first bead (to the right on top), try for a foundation or groundwork where bead 3 is, roughly, and then you may sift your assets well far and wide and reach Origo too, bead 6.
We have divided this trek in steps and stages for you, to make it very, very easy to accomplish things that may please, gratify and satisfy you if you exercise (train yourself or kin) according to them in good, tenable ways. That vital part is up to you. It is wholly your responsibility how you use this research information. Yes, we need that safeguard.
In the light of this, the connection betwen the two images of Figure 1 is had.
If you learn and master the select stages of accomplishments and attainments involved in this sort of essays (tables), you could reap much benefit as time goes by. You may need lots of tact if you ascend in social life.
How to use the basic ideas of the Tao essays on the site, is much elaborated here: [LINK] and here: [LINK]

Structuralist thinking is integrated in our novel Tao design too

Figure 11. Greimas assessments incorporated in the novel model in accordance with the main stretches (spans) of the Tao diagonal fro Origo (O) and upwards, mainly.

This accentuated Tao route of attainments with its steps and stages is very much like "the trek of accomplishments" in the structuralist ideations of Algirdas Greimas (fig. 11.
Our Greimas-allied route starts - as his "conflict axis" too - in the middle of the Yang field, as marked by a purplish circle, reaches the Boden (periphery) (red circle) and goes to the left from there till it reaches the Origo (golden circle), which is the postulated Tao point of departure. The diagonal represents Tao (also written Dao in Pinyin), a middling way between darkness and light, yin and yang, and the diagonal is divided into three spans in the model. The spans are between the coloured circles of the diagonal. Each Tao span corresponds with postulated attainments of Greimas.
To know rises above to do in this scenario, and to know how to do, or be able to do, lies in between. Each span has a corresponding "layer" in the cybernetics of Norbert Wiener (fig. 5).

Another System Anchorage too

Figure 12. Acupuncture's system model, the health-giving cycle.

In Asiatic teachings, there are constructive outlets and destructive ones. Rudeness tends to belong to the destructive elements of a life. In a simple way these teachings are depicted in the yin-yang teachings at bottom of acupuncture.
The socalled constructive and destructive cycles at the bottom of classical Chinese acupuncture show the same idea in a more complete form, and these models are applied in a acupuncture treatment sessions. And sure enough, ancient Chinese included elements (system elements of acupuncture have half-poetic names, for sure) in it too. Ancient Indian scriptures call these elements bhutas.
There is yet another and simpler way of depicting such deep-going "cycles" - to depict the constructive tidiness and elegance (Norw: Lødigheit) involved in order-building and basic, health-rewarding issues. The "cycle" involved in constructive outlets is represented by a spinning sun. But there is another "spiralling influence" too, another spin that is possible, and that is one of disorder, discord, derangement fit for destructive agents that can be "all around". Both ways are found in nature.
Do not get any funny ideas at this point; the latter image was made infamous in the reign of Hitler, but it is many thousands of years old, and is, among other things, a religious symbol. Depictions are found in Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism, Indian Tantra, and also on the bandolær of the nearly 1500 years old Snartemo sword found in Norway; it is now at Historical Museum in Oslo.

Fig. 13 a.

Fig. 13 b.

Eggs of gold

Figure 14. The egg of gold (selfhood).

There are two types of gold eggs, as we call them: (a) ideas and (b) accomplishments. Thoughts are good and tact is too. Skills and handling routines can be had on top of good thoughts and practice.
Practical accomplishments may be the most valuable to attain, but one should gather what one can - if proverbs like "One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to use it", "An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept" and "If skill could be acquired by watching, dogs would be butchers" are laden with significant all-round value.
How to arrive at eggs of gold - ie, selfhood, has been suggested. One may use our basic design to arrive at ideas and relevant forms of sound mastery learning, which may be crowned by likable accomplishments. It is not as easy as it sounds.

Meticulously had: handling wisdom

Figure 14. Mumble Goose-egg of successful accomplishments.

There are many forms and facets of knowledge. The Tao system divulged here, allows a man to build handling knowledge in a string (row) of beads (accomplishments). Words that give vent to such a row (stretch) of thinking, are favourable summaries. They are fit for that sort of kings who claim "My home is my castle". This tiny Mumble figure shows when stringed ideas in an essay have been grasped and gathered in such a way. They are not easily arrived at, and some may help you.
And by the way, Mumble is the hero of a widespread folktale type, "Strong John". Here is our version of it: [LINK]
When you reach all right satisfactions, it should be time to move on or up toward some next stage(s).

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Cybernetically aligned Tao wisdom

This cybernetical Taoism is rare, for it shows how to build relevant Tao forms and facets, while the old chinese philosophy of Taoism tends to portray the decline of Tao. Note the difference well.
There is one more difference between Old Taoism and this new form: whereas philosophers like Lao Tzu fairly often seem to dethrone adult thinking, or the Adult in Dr Eric Berne's terminology, we do not. The Adult is also rationality, which is needed for gathering and gauging old and new wisdom.

Structuralism of design

You haven't been shown the details of it here, but they are much embedded in the stretch (route, trek) that should be built up.

Calvinism Survey

TULIP is an established acronym. Note how we interpret and use a TULIP below:

TULIP Letters Calvinistic Concepts Heading Signs Icon Representations Levels

T Total depravity Tick

1
2

U Unconditional election Tack

3

4

L Limited atonement Toe

First:

And next:
5

6-10

I Irresistible grace "Fourth"

11-15

P "Pivotal" . . . "Fifth"

16-20

Table: The Calvinistic TULIP brought into our structural design for solvency-building and problem-solving.

The structural grid that is implied in the levels (right), is shown in great detail somewhere else. [LINK].
Very careful study of the TULIP table could pay. To the left are letters of the TULIP, which is a Calvinistic acronym in its own right. It represents the Calvinistic concepts of the second left column. And these concepts correspond neatly with the tick tack toe serialisation we show. We have used particular icons in the headings (column 3), and particular, equally pre-fixed icons in the text to ease recognition of elements, their place in an overall scheme, and hence aid in learning (column 4). A selection of the icons may be put to use in any scheme developed here, and not necessarily all of them in one and the same scheme. Finally, the right column states the system levels involved throughout the serialization, which is good for building successes, as it was designed to yield constructive solutions.
According to this scheme, levels 1-10 form our socalled tick tack toe design, which is part of a larger schema where the tick tack toe part constitute many "TUL things" of a Calvinistic TULIP. You can access it all in a more complete schema where there are stretches or spans of 5 levels each (and they do not end with the significators of the letter L in TULIP, really) [LINK].
In a tick tack toe serialisation of points (ie, such a novel essay, the various stages (spans) are shown by fixed icons (see the table); it is a finesse that helps appropriation (learning by schemes.
Our tick tack toe spans are meant for beginners, and could work very well for home-making - but it depends on circumstances, accomplices, associates and so on.
A few more words on schemas: A schema (pl. schemas) is a cognitive structure that helps us perceive, organize, process, and utilize information. It guides our perception in basic ways, and helps us identify what is important by providing a regular structure within which to organize and process information [Hi 474, 475].
Dale Schunk gives this definition: "A schema is a [cognitive] structure that organizes large amounts of information into a meaningful system." [Lte 168, cf. 447]. Thus, a schema is a stereotype specifying a standard pattern or sequence [or both] of steps associated with a particular concpet, skill, or event. Schemata are types of plans we use during our environment interactions [emphasis added]. Schemata aid in comprehending information. [Lte 168] Also, from the same source:

Any well-ordered sequence can be represented as a schema.
Common educational schemata involve . . . studying and comprehending . . .
Schemata assist encoding because they elaborate new material into a meaningful structure.
Schemata may fascilitate recall. [All: Lte 169]

Also, according to Jean Piaget, human development involves the acquisition of schemes, which are types of cognitive structures that underlie and make possible organized thought and action. [Lte 104].
The tick tack toe table that we use, is designed for schema learning, and what is more, research also says that icons help identifying various levels that go into it.

The science bit

Finally, our basic way of stringing topics into spans or stages is like the scientific ways of handling things in research and report-making. It conforms to rigid enough scientific basis procedures.

Research Gate

In basic research there are steps and stages. One switches to and fro many of them. What follows is a mere sketch of the steps. Rigid training may be needed and useful in science accordingly:

You typically start to struggle with some ideas that come to your mind and try to evolve them.
You group them and try to bring order into them, by setting up arrays and the like.
Then you seek for evidence or a good foundation of some other sort, depending on the type of study you are into. A good library tends to give help in this phase.
Next you streamline the best ideas and methods you hae found to fit your problem.
You seek to implement them in this phase.
You strive for feedback and try to improve or evolve ideas (concepts, constructs), methods, and even designs - maybe technological devises as well.

You will find that the steps indicated thought this very allround solution finder - or problem solving allround methodology - are linked to the tick tack toe schema above and the mainframe schema [LINK].
Through exploring and scientific knowhow man gradually rises above the "monkey" level of aping and conformism, and that is thought to be good and wise, but it can be hard work too. One may reduce the toil more or less by sensible use of the advance modifiers, the "well-wells" we have devised. Many of them are found on another page. [LINK].
These very basic steps and stages of research in general correspond very well to a very useful semi-cybernetic scheme that we have developed, and which lies at the bottom of some of our essays. [LINK]

Five into one

Our unified Taoism model solves hard problems too. It is a powerful tool for thinking and forming routines that will assist constructivist activity. Good condition are needed along with it, too. Our model may be put to work for practically anybody, and one may further be taught how to catch gold eggs through it (yes, a metaphor is involved throughout in this). Gold in this context represents (pleasant) selfsameness, selfhood is another term, and both are linked to the Sanskrit word 'swa' or 'sva', which means self. In other contexts (settings) we use 'gold' as a synonym for handy, all right handy, which is specially valuable.

Tao handling according to models handed over;
Basic cybernetical philosophy after Norbert Wiener;
Parts of the general structuralism of Algirdas Greimas, at times including selfhood-bulding;
A structural grasp of accomodating Calvinism;
Basic steps, layout and values of scientific workings and presentation -

It is also good to form neat and elegant keyword poetics from the gist of the allround solution finder. It works well. Many such novel metrics designs have been explored and put to use. (At present they are not divulged here, however.)

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Figure 15. A tiger picture used as a symbol of how old Taoism and new Taoism relate to each other like two tigers.

Finding a way out

A DAO is a way, a route. It can also mean means and lots of other things. First you find a two significant chapters from our dao classic Tao Te Ching. The whole poem is online right here.

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When the highest of men hear of dao and truth they put it into practice quite diligently.
When the common types hear of dao, they seem to be in two minds about it, half believing, aware and unaware of some.
When the lowest types hear of dao, they ridicule or laugh loudly - but if they did not laugh, it would be no dao.

The proverb has it:
The way out into the light often looks dark; one who understands dao seems dull, as dao which is bright appears to be dark.
The dao which goes forward appears to fall backward; the one who is advanced (in dao) seems to slip backwards; the way that goes ahead often looks as if it went back.
He who works and moves on the even dao [co-path] seems to go up and down; the least hilly way often looks as if it went thus, as level dao appears uneven.
Great virtue seems hollow and empty. The truly loftiest might looks like an abyss; superior virtue appears like a valley (hollow). Great capability is [granted to be] hollow. Yes, the loftiest is something abysmal.
Sheerest white seems blurred, sheer white is like tarnished; (most) purity seems like disgrace.
The most sufficing might looks inadequate; far-reaching virtue hardly seems to be enough; and great [and rustic] character appears to be not enough [but it is all the same].
The [organising] might that stands most firm seems flimsy. Solid character looks infirm; and solid virtue unsteady.
Whats in its natural, pure state looks faded: True substance looks changeable, and pure worth seems dirtied.
The largest square has no corners: great space has no corners.
The greatest capacities develop latest, and great talent could be slow to mature; as they say: The greatest vessel takes the longest to finish. The great tool and talent is slow to finish (or mature). Great tools do slow work. Great inside talent takes long to ripen.
Great music is far from course; [at times] rare, it could be hard to get, or hardly heard.
Great, hidden form has neither shape nor contour; as great here means of dao, [which is thought up as] hidden and without (overtly sounded) name.
Now, dao backs all things financially; dao alone skilfully provides for all - it supports all things and advances [some] to perfection. Well dao-lent power could bring us (some degree of) fulfilment. Skilled, able dao-lending (of some majesty and power) could bring [Christian] fulfilment.

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True words hardly sound fine. Nice words are far from always true.
A good man seldom proves by argument; he hardly argues. He who argues or proves by argument is hardly so good (as non-argumentative good men). Who argues [blatantly] is hardly (ever) a good man.
[All this is "Lao" arguing, debating or clowning.]

Brilliant wisdom is different from sordid learning. Much bookish learning can mean too little wisdom. Who has extensive knowledge is hardly a wise man.

The wise man has no need to hoard for himself. He lives for other people, seemingly, and grows richer himself if the more he uses for others, the more he has for himself - He gives to other people to get greater abundance.

Heaven's way is to sharpen and bless, all free from harm of cutting,
And the wise man's way is to act and accomplish without contending or striving.

Adjoined

Hi: Smith, Carolyn D. (ed) et al.: Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology. 14th ed. Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, 2003.
Lte: Schunk, Dale: Learning Theories. An Educational Perspective. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Shz: Cleary, Thomas, tr. Shobogenzo: Zen Essays by Dogen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
Szd: Nishijima, Gudo Wafo, and Chodo Cross, trs. Master Dogen's Shobogenzo. Book 1. Woking, Surrey, 1994.
Szi: Nishijima, Gudo Wafo, and Chodo Cross, trs. Master Dogen's Shobogenzo. Book 2. Windbell Publications, London: 1996.
Szm: Nishijima, Gudo Wafo, and Chodo Cross, trs. Master Dogen's Shobogenzo. Book 3. Windbell Publications, London: 1997.
Szp: Nishijima, Gudo Wafo, and Chodo Cross, trs. Master Dogen's Shobogenzo. Book 4. Windbell Publications, London: 1999.

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