Shorts | Even a Rock Has Free Will (So Why Don’t You?)
Living the Tao-A Spiritual Podcast
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Show Notes
Free will is usually treated as a human question — do we have it, or are we determined? In this Living the Tao Short, the discussion moves in a different direction entirely.
Starting from a Taoist premise that everything is Dao, the conversation explores what that means for equality, change, and the nature of choice. If the Dao neither favors nor disfavors anything, then how does anything happen? The answer leads to a surprising conclusion: choice is the mechanism of change, and choice exists everywhere — not just in human thought.
Along the way, this short episode challenges several assumptions:
- That humans primarily choose through rational thinking
- That free will belongs only to conscious beings
- That having free will means unlimited options
- That change comes from intellect rather than energy
Instead, choice is framed as an energetic process expressed differently across all things. Humans experience it one way, but the same principle applies universally.
Even a rock, in its own way, may be exercising choice.
A brief conversation designed for reflection.
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Intro music: “Finding Movement” by Kevin MacLeod — licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Source: incompetech.com