Gospel Koan 30.4

Dancing Within Bonds

Koan 30.4

Every will is attached to its own want; every thought is bound in another; every action is tied to a future; nothing is free; everything is bound.

Summary Exposition

The operative mechanism is the chain of causation and teleology, where every mental and physical event is inextricably linked to a preceding cause or a subsequent effect. A single, potent example is a simple desire for water, which binds the will to the want of hydration, which then binds a thought to the concept of a glass, which in turn binds the action of reaching for it. The fundamental implication is a universe of causal binding, where the process—the conference of difference—is deterministic, but that which is expressed by it is probabilistic due to the differences inherent within existents themselves.

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