TRANSCENDING DEATH
Keywords:
TRANSCENDENCE, DEATHAbstract
How is it possible to explain the phenomenon of death, the over-cultured natural phenomenon which has been deprived of its natural wu-wei (noninterference principle in Daoism) dimension, and which after all remains the only realistic and certain stance for anyone in the face of the future? The future itself, being deprived of certainty, gave many possibilities for speculation on the significance of the Land which is the best, because it is nonexistent. As such it meant the hope for the Other, the chance to evade the paradigms of the present and already realized forms of the community.
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