Balance
Our human minds and egos like to think of balance being a steady, constant thing that can be weighed and measured, but except in the context of physically weighing two objects in as controlled an environment as we can manage, it is largely untrue. The Universe is constantly changing, as are our perspectives and realities. In fact, the only universal constant is change. What passed for balance yesterday does not necessarily apply to today and the varying scopes of balance -in our personal lives, World-wide, Universal, etc.- are in constant flux as well. So then, what is true balance?
Inherent in the word ‘balance’ is the sense of a duality: The fine line between dark and light, the state of equilibrium of Yin and Yang, between Law and Chaos, the comparison of and equality between any opposite or opposing forces. But looking at the symbol for Yin and Yang, there is dark and there is light, yet the two meet along a long curving line and in the center of each is a circle of the other. Within one, there exists the other -dark within the light, light within dark, chaos within law. There is a dependence and implicit harmony between the two extremes. There is no dichotomy, no true separation of light from dark, or dark from light, no true opposite, no true imbalance found.
Balance exists within and through the nature of all things, dark and light, Yin and Yang. True balance is a subtle, constantly changing state of being. Without the dark, how do we determine what is light? Without one, does the other even exist? Without the extremes, what is our gauge for morality, for ethics, our impetus and gauge for growth? Or is balance more a matter of shades of gray? Of experience? Of Mind? Is not balance, therefore, a constantly evolving state of awareness?
But balance exists not as a duality or separation of one from the other. It exists as a harmonic whole, existing within the nature of all things, and as with Yin-Yang, there is no dichotomy, no separation of each of us from the greater Spirit. This is the true nature of balance, the true nature of our reality.
Namaste
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