Recovering the balance
If human life on earth is moving towards a state of extreme acceleration, heat and stress, then we are currently living in a phase of “Yangnification”. In the ancient Chinese tradition of wisdom, yang stands for movement and heat, represented by the sky and the sun, in contradistinction to yin which incarnates calmness and coolness, […]
The lost balance
A very simple analysis of the historic evolution over the past three centuries may go like this: We earthlings have been able to speed up most of the natural and man-made processes around us, reaching today an accelerated pace which it is hard for any living being to cope with. Higher speed and acceleration unleash […]
Balance
Losing one’s balance is not the same as losing an object. This obvious fact has far-reaching consequences. It means, first of all, that one’s own balance – be it physical or emotional – is not something outside oneself, but it is kept from within. Exterior factors do, obviously, affect the balance of any individual, and things […]