Which are the contradictions which allows us to be alive?

General@lemmygrad.ml · 6 months ago

Which are the contradictions which allows us to be alive?

davel [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml · 6 months ago

oxidation/reduction

I’ve always found this is one fascinating, as if to live at all is to perpetually play with fire, flirting with death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

as if to live at all is to perpetually play with fire, flirting with death.

This turns out to be scientifically accurate:

Bhikkhus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning? The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact for its indispensable condition, that too is burning.