{"id":224,"date":"2026-09-15T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:33:16","slug":"canal-tao-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Canal Tao #06"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-432x576.jpg 432w, https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-576x768.jpg 576w, https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-743x990.jpg 743w, https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-1536x2048-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0768-scaled-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Canal Tao 06\u2014 The Leaks That Keep the Balance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The locks are still chained shut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big signs say DO NOT USE, and nobody has passed through for three days now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the water is still moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m standing by the lock watching it leak through the gates in a steady little stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not a flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not a failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the strange thing is, the water level in the pound hasn\u2019t really changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if water is constantly escaping through this lock, then somewhere above us, another lock must be leaking almost the same amount back in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the one above that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the one above that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five or six locks stepping down through the landscape, each one losing a little water, each one receiving a little from somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing is sealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing is perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet the level holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We tend to think balance means nothing is being lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No energy wasted. No mistakes. No cracks. No leaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But nature seems less interested in perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes balance is simply this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system adjusts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for a while, everything holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stability is not the absence of movement. It is movement finding its balance.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canal Tao 06\u2014 The Leaks That Keep the Balance The locks are still chained shut&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taoism-in-my-water"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkmoonrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}