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Tao Stoic 235

"Death, Master, is unstructuring with nothing (of Life) left. How can one best imagine that?"

"Life is only a capacity, is therefore basically nothing material. Imagine a long corridor with plenty of doors giving on to it, right and left. All this, then, is matter, is physics. Now suppose a sequence of some sort, say, 'all left doors open alternatively, all right doors open in alternate groups of 3, 2, 3, 2, the black keys of the piano. The same material is there now, i.e. energy, matter, physics, but now the capacity of the whole, the capacity to move about, is according to a precise sequence of the doors. If this precise sequence, now, is Life, all others not, it is clear that Life itself can be destroyed or simply be ended by just making the sequence different, random even. Nothing material has been added, but this precise, special sequence is no longer. This is Death, the unstructured or differed structure that was once Life, Emotion, Ideation, and all other synonyms."


Ven 2005-01-24