S2E19 - Shorts | Even a Rock Has Free Will (So Why Don’t You?)
Published: April 7, 2026
Duration: 10:15
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 chal...