u/PissPantsington

Law of existence...

I was just thinking really deeply about why anything exists at all... Actually. I think about this question all the time. It has really really boggled my mind for a long long time.

I think i may have stumbled onto something here that kind of... Gives me a sense of satisfaction about not only why anything exists... But about the NATURE of existence.

Essentially what im asking is why is there something rather than nothing... Well ive had the realization before that nothing, cannot exist by the definition of nothingness and the defintion of existence.

But i just took that thought a step further and yielded a statement... A statement with a contrapositive which i believe has some pretty interesting insight into the question of why reality exists as we know it. My reasoning is as follows

If you had yourself a heaping plate of true nothingness... Okay thats a joke... If there were truly nothing... That would mean there were no limits, boundaries or rules. There would be nothing to prevent things from occuring. Nothing is inherently unstable. Nothing is literally infinite potential, and no boundary to stop that potential from occurring.

Nothing, is powerless to resist existence.

What is interesting to me is the contrapositive of this sentence...

Anything has the power to resist existence.

It seems to me this is true in the universe. Things decay... Things die.. things change... Things emerge then diffuse...

It is this statement and its contrapositive which gives the universe its tempo.

I feel like i stumbled upon the law of existence.

Thoughts?

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u/PissPantsington — 5 days ago
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Photons and Yin Yangs

Came across this and didnt believe it. I looked it up and it appears to be real. Thought it was interesting. What do you think taoist bros? I for one am pretty surprised that yin yangs actually appear in nature. At a pretty fundamental level too it seems. Definitely thought provoking

u/PissPantsington — 6 days ago
▲ 28 r/taoism

I have perused this subreddit for a while now and it occurs to me suddenly from reading thru some comments that there is a strict difference between "*philosophical* taoism", and religious taoism.

I'm more or less familiar with philosophical taoism, but i have some questions for religious taoists. Where in lies the difference? Do you wholesale dismiss the perspective of "philosophical taoism"? Is this just a western "appropriation" of religious taoism as one commenter framed it?

Also what kinds of things do taoist priest practice to attain? Ive often wondered of there are meditative practices or abilities which are attained as rites of passage in priesthood?

Please elaborate

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u/PissPantsington — 18 days ago