Think of Light and Dark.
There are things in the universe that produce light (stars). But is there something that produces darkness? Actually no, there isn’t. In fact, light exists in physics and is known as a photon, a light-quantum. But there is no dark-quantum.
Light is a thing. It exists. Darkness is not a thing, but it does exist.
How does it exist if it is not a thing? It is not a thing, but it is a condition. It is the condition of lacking light. This is how things that exist automatically create their opposite, but their opposite is not a separate real entity, it is merely their lack.
This is one of the important places where western religions get everything completely and absolutely wrong. They think that since there is darkness in the world, there must be a dark-marker, a dark-god. And that dark-god must be different, opposed to, at odds with the light-god. This is how they succumb to the philosophically childish error of dualism.
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