2026-07-16
last update: 2026-07-16
paradoxes
recently, i felt like everything would come to a paradox or some sort:
- if you say that you are a good person, you will be able to find counterexample(s) that you did something... bad, and thus you are not good anymore
- if you say that you are a bad person, you will be able to find counterexample(s) that you did something... good, and thus you are not bad anymore
- the more you want to be liberated, the more you are trapped with the want of being liberated
- the more you seek the absolute, the more you find that there is no absolute, and the finding that there is no absolute is some kind of... absolute itself
- there is Dao, the absolute pinnacle ultimate origin and explanation of the universe itself and of everything; it means you are created from Tao and all your actions are following Dao already; the fact that people try to tell you about Dao and how to follow it feels... a bit pointless, but it also purposeful in the sense that Tao influenced them to write; squinting hard enough, "purpose" is our own "meaning of life"; in a humanly constructed sense, we can pick whatever lens we want (biologically to survive and reproduce for example); in a Dao-ly constructed sense, there would be no such grandeur, or to continue existing (or not, because even if you choose not to, it's all according to Dao)
- let's say Dao is infinite, and your mind (or at least your time) is finite, so you cannot really "grasp" nor "understand" Dao; you can sort of see its "shadow", or overall shape; however, knowing the shape would not really... affect you nor help you in any way; it does not make you a better/smarter person either; you would still think and reason and act the same "knowing" or not; does it mean knowing Dao is pointless?