Li, Zhijun: What Makes Being Manifest? Form, Force, and the Meta-State v0.1.5

Why is there something rather than nothing? And why does that something——the universe, with all its galaxies, stars, and living beings——keep producing difference rather than settling into a dead, uniform stillness? This paper argues that answering this question requires two distinct things: a formal structure and a dynamical source. The formal structure is the Meta-State——a dual-symbiotic relation between two inseparable poles. One pole is Ji-Kong, which serves as the indeterminate, receptive gr