This speaks deeply to the heart of what we explore in a sacred practice and intentional kink. Especially in the extended states of consciousness we go through in play, we often return to the truth that acceptance is not passive but an action, a paradox. As you said, “Tao is everything and nothing.” From the standpoint of paradoxical logic, what matters isn’t the mental wrangling or the doctrine, but the lived gesture.
We embrace the all when we go into subspace, top space, altered space whether through whatever cocktail our bodies comes up with or whatever cocktail we feed ourselves we seek the conflict and the harmony, as one. The tension of the two creates resonance. We access a kind of knowing through the experience.
Where Taoism holds harmony as the balance of complementary forces, Western thought often demands dominance of one over the other, African philosophy speaks from: reality as the result of conscious, spiritual coexistence with the universe. A interconnected, communal, symbiotic relationship. This is also our aim: to manifest states of consciousness beyond linear time, to become vessels for cosmic and universal causation. I’m still formulating my thoughts, but I feel synergy between Taoist paradox and precolonial African philosophy.
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