Gospel koan 90.6
Minimizing unease
Koan 90.6
Only in salvation is the potential for ease in the conference of difference maximized and dukkha: 'unease' minimized.
Summary exposition
The central mechanism reframes salvation as the process that optimizes an entity's relationship with dukkha—the inherent unease of being's ceaseless action. It does not eliminate this ontological friction but renders it productive. A concrete example is a master craftsperson at a forge; the intense heat and physical strain (dukkha) are not eliminated but are forgiven—given way to—to permit the atonement of their will with the act of creation itself. The implication is that dukkha is the indispensable energy of transformation, and salvation is the system that allows being to harness it for self-overcoming, preventing its decay into paralyzing suffering.
