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The Oceans

Accept disgrace willingly.
Accept misfortune as the human condition.

What do you mean by “Accept disgrace willingly”?
Accept being unimportant.
Do not be concerned with loss and gain.
This is called “accepting disgrace willingly.”

What do you mean by “Accept misfortune as the human condition”?
Misfortune comes from having a body.
Without a body, how could there be misfortune?

Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things.
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

(Dao De Jing, chapter 13. translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English)

As we head to the coast, a somber reality awaits to be acknowlegded. The global trends of fish stocks have not rebounded, and many are still in decline.
Since the time of the great bust, people have made changes. Most notably, fishing industries are limited to local harbors because fishing in international waters is forbidden.
In local populations, there have been signs of life. However, those signs are washed out, overall, by the sad state of the oceans.
Life in the oceans must be a top priority of the Anthropocene.

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