The Cause Is Either a Plus or a Minus
A problem arises for only one of two reasons: (1) something superfluous was added, or (2) something necessary was taken away. In other words, a problem arises because conditions are not necessary and sufficient. If you identify the excess or the deficiency so as to satisfy the necessary and sufficient conditions, that is at the same time the true solution.
Everything that exists in the universe exists by automation. That is, it exists in a complete state from the very beginning. For example, every living thing in the universe holds all of its life information at the stage of the seed. That life information, containing every possibility, interacts with the environment and is expressed geometrically, in a geometry that includes time. This is the quantum nature of life. The cyclical repetition of dynamic cell construction is the phenomenon of life.
“Polymath” means universality, quantumness and completeness. The ensō, the Zen circle, has nothing in excess and nothing lacking. Adding something to, or taking something away from, that flawless state creates an imbalance. That imbalance is the very cause of the problem. Correct the imbalance, and the problem resolves itself1.
Footnotes
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This is an Eastern way of thinking that takes life as the default, and it cannot arise from the Western way of thinking that takes death as the default (the one that dominates modern science). The difference shows in Eastern thought, which reveres nature and the universe, and Western thought, which reveres humanity. Western science has a decisive limit in its ability to solve problems. A civilization that has been Westernized and has grown in the direction of specialization needs a fundamental shift in its way of thinking. ↩
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