Energy And Inertia

Energy is change.
Inertia is resistance to change.
Every object and event is an interaction between energy and inertia.
If nothing changed, then nothing would happen.

If everything changed at every moment, then nothing would exist.
The apparently static is in fact dynamic.
Mass resists change but also is energy.
One stationary object is many moving particles.

Many objects are stationary on the surface of a planet which however moves through space.
Organisms resist change by changing what is not themselves into themselves and vice versa.
Natural selection preserves but changes species.
The Red Queen runs as fast as she can to stay where she is.

We stand still by walking up a down escalator.
Human beings changed their environment and themselves in the process.
Changing the means of production changes social relationships.
In zazen, we do not change what is but see and accept it.

However, someone who did not see and accept but now does has changed.

See Change And Resistance.