Gospel Koan 70.6

The Power to Transform

Koan 70.6

Thus difference: 'the condition of bearing apart' cannot manifest power in division but only in conference: the 'condition of bearing together'.

Summary Exposition

This koan establishes that difference, in a state of pure division or opposition, is powerless; power emerges exclusively when differences are convened into a relational whole ('conference'). For example, hydrogen and oxygen atoms possess distinct properties, but their isolated differences are inert; only when combined into the conference of H₂O do they manifest the power to form a solvent and sustain life. The fundamental consequence is that ontological power is a relational property, not an individual possession. Reality’s potency is generated at the nexus of connection, rendering isolation a state of potential without actualization and collaboration the fundamental engine of being.

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