Becoming, Division, Between, Momentum, Appearance Shēng–Fēn–Jiān–Shì–Xiǎn · Becoming, Division, Between, Momentum, Appearance

Look back over this whole book: becoming is not still—the moment it appears, it divides (Becoming Divides); it divides out two ends that are one of a kind and give birth to each other (Born New, Mutual Becoming); between the ends is born the living between (Symbiosis); in the between is stretched the directional momentum (Momentum Is Born in the Between); momentum is born in the empty place and, at the inchoate, is about to appear without having appeared (Born from the Empty, Inchoate Becoming); at its fullest it returns, round after round without end—and this ceaselessness itself is the unchanging (At the Fullest, Becoming Returns). This book has spoken of movement, of how becoming becomes without cease. In the next book, we watch how this ceaseless becoming lands, and appears as this whole world before your eyes—with mountains and rivers, with you and me, and with those existences that have no name yet.

In the last section you saw that the myriad things are all appearing out of becoming, division, the between, momentum, appearance. This section asks a question you may ask: that becoming, that root—where is it? Is it a distant source, high above, hiding behind the world? Or is it somewhere else?