• trailing9
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    1 year ago

    Decay is a sign of life, not of death. When there is no life everything is preserved.

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        1 year ago

        A bit but I don’t mean it on a spiritual level. What we see as death are microorganisms taking things apart and integrating them into their lives.

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          I don’t mean it on a spiritual level

          My bad, I didn’t mean that. I have a biased non-spiritual interpretation of daoism that is probably wrong.

          What we see as death are microorganisms taking things apart and integrating them into their lives.

          I did read your comment in that sense and I think it’s 100% accurate. The “non-human life is also life” argument is what resonates with [my interpretation] of daoism.

          And the koan-ish style of your comment, that also helps :).