Static or kinetic?

Heraclitus said that there is nothing permanent except change.

Parmenides said everything that seems to change is illusory; the underlying eternal reality is static.

The Buddha sided with Heraclitus believing that all phenomena, universally, are transient. They come, and they go. But the absolute unity of nirvana, on the other hand would seem to classify as static.

So which one is it, is our reality static or kinetic?

Mathematics may provide the answer! Just assume you live in a universe that runs in accordance with mathematical laws.

A mathematical function, for example: f(x)=x2-5 has a dual aspect it is a static and also a kinetic. As a mathematical concept it is static, as a function it produces motion and is thus kinetic.

One could go so far as to conclude from this that reality is a dialectical monism, meaning that reality is ultimately a unified whole, expressed in dualistic terms, as static plus kinetic.

One may also wonder why the ‘enlightened’ Buddha never came up with any mathematics, which is after all the obvious construction language of the universe.

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