Rules

One, Two, Three

One, two, three
Oh, that's how elementary
It's gonna be
Come on let's fall in love
It's easy
Like taking candy
From a baby.

THREE is not only elementary, but it's also fundamental.

The ancient East Asian painting of the Three Vinegar tasters is supposed to be a representation of 1) Confucius, (Kung Fu Tse); 2) Lord Buddha; and 3) Lao Tse (the founder of Taoism) tasting vinegar from the same jar.

1. Confucius says that the vinegar tastes bitter which demonstrates to him that rules are necessary to impose order over chaos in reality and that it is up to you to impose that order.
2. Lord Buddha says that the vinegar tastes sour which demonstrates to him that all reality has to be endured so that you can pass from reality to the unobserved.
3. Lao Tse says that the vinegar tastes just like it is supposed to taste in reality. There is both reality, the observed, and the unobserved, but they are different to him.

Of the three, I’m on Team Tao. The fact that reality, the observed, is different than the unobserved does NOT mean that one or the other is better, only that they are different. Vinegar tastes how it is supposed to taste in reality, but that doesn’t mean it won’t taste differently in some place other than reality. What is “order” in reality,  might be considered “chaos” in the unobserved.