Forever Is Beneficial

Everything on earth has a beginning and an ending. Everything that already exists, subsists because it has a name. “The name that can be named is not the eternal name.” (pg.3), which means that what doesn’t exist, or doesn’t have a name, is eternal. The nameless’ energy then never gets destroyed, or misled, it never dies. For instance, heaven and earth, “Heaven and earth last forever. Why do heaven and earth last forever? They are unborn, so ever living.” (pg. 9), they actually never were born, and then are they real, or just an idea? They are named, but unborn, so do they exist? Then what really comes into importance, are not the unborn heaven and earth, but the interaction of everything with heaven and earth, the reason why they are named and eternal.

For everything to exist, there is a “universal law” to follow. Not exactly a law, but a natural order of things in general. A balance in which there is stability among the known. Every object, substance, element, bit and piece complements each other. To harmonize between each other, things become opposites. “Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.” (pg. 4), this maxim is prove of how opposites are dependent, this means that without any of them the other wouldn’t exist. The matter of eternity, is empty within contrary. By contradicting themselves, they follow an order of being. Consequently, the primal virtue is taken, which explains that the body comes in pair with the soul, this is the spirit. They complete each other, probably by differing. In this way, benefit for usefulness comes from opposites, which are the basis of the material world in which we live. It is beneficial or useful, to complete what is not there, it is a compromise of taking ambition into simplicity, and wanting what is careless. In the following maxim, “Therefore benefit comes from what is there; usefulness from what is not there.” (pg.13), opposites are beneficial, therefore useful, in what materialism takes care and the spirit forgets.