Trey Smith
In a recent post, Nothing Lasts Forever, at A Quiet Watercourse, Richard writes.
Change is necessary for creation to occur. so it’s far from being a bad thing. Every act of creation requires the destruction of that which came before.
It's a lovely post that utilizes buildings in his local community to draw out an important point that we each should keep in mind.
What struck me is how the phrase, nothing lasts forever, might change in meaning based on which word in the phrase is emphasized (in speaking terms, the inflection). In my mind's eye, Richard's post treats the phrase as such: Nothing Lasts Forever. But what if we changed the emphasis or inflection? What if someone read it as Nothing Lasts Forever?
The first emphasis suggests change and transformation, while the second emphasis suggests that emptiness -- Tao -- is always present and, possibly, unchanging.
How could "nothing" ever be something that it wasn't in the first place? How could emptiness not last? How could nothing be anything but infinite?
No answers here. Just questions to ponder.
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