The Chicken is the way for an Egg to become more Eggs. This is a saying showing how things that may seem detached are sometimes simply a part of the same process. One might say a chicken is better than an egg because it is actually living and having an experience. Someone else could say an egg is better than the chicken as there would not be a chicken without the egg. This is grounds for a never ending argument where both sides would be adamant they’re more correct than the other.
However realising that the chicken and egg is simply a single process with each component as equally important as the other might bring some consensus and an end to the fight of which is more important. The chicken uses eggs to make more chickens. The egg uses chickens to make more eggs. The chicken and the egg are the same process.
Another scenario is that of light and darkness. There is no light without darkness. No darkness without light. Some people perceive darkness as evil and something that if they could, they would erase. What they miss is that like the chicken-egg scenario above, darkness and light are the same thing. Erasing darkness would mean erasing light and there’d be nothing left of that process.
Life is death and death is life. The life-death case is incredibly fascinating because people see death as the enemy and fail to realise the important role it plays. People celebrate a new life and mourn death. Everyone would love to bring new life to the world but no one wants to see someone die. As humans we have chosen the side of life over death because we see them as opposites. But for there to be a life for a thing then there must be a death of that thing.
We call the entities that do not die non-living things. These are the rocks, soil, minerals, water among the other so called non living things. No one wants to be a rock but if you do not want death then you’d have to be a rock. With no death there is no life. As humans we need to embrace death as the important mark of having life we deem to be so important.
This concept applies to a lot of things we experience in life. We sometimes find ourselves involved in fights in which we pick a side and try to extinguish the opposing side without realising the futility of this. Other examples include the peace-war process, failure-success, happy-sad and a lot of other processes.