If a thing is in balance, how does it get out of balance? More specifically, if the UNIVERSE (everything) is in balance, how could it ever get out of balance? If yin and yang are balanced, does action stop? Or does it mean things just flow un-hindered, peaceful? I guess I'm confused.
Doesnt balanced just mean everything is kinda canceled about by the next thing? Like, you win the lottery and buy a car, but you get in a car wreck so you cant go on that trip to hawaii, but later you find out that your would-be flight crashed on its way there.
hmmm i want to say everything under the sun is in tune and things are perfect here on planet earth just the way it is, but i feel that is a lie, as the world is fucked and a lot of people are really tipping this balance. balance would be equal to justice and equality would it not,, things we dont really have too much of in this world. while karma is a very charming pleasent idea, not a realistic one, not one that humans can percieve or see with the naked eye anyway. love
In actuality, the balance of things outside of physical definition are never really out of balance, they are just balanced with the fulcrum in a different place at times. If everything didn't balance it would all fall. The yin and yang evidence this. In the symbol of the Yin and Yang, there is a circle that holds all everything inside it. This circle and its volume or area represent the all and the nothing. Inside the circle, there is a black hemisphere with a white dot in it and a white hemisphere containing a black dot. These represent the two sides of any conflict that occur. The line in the middle is you. In a perfect situation, the person involved in the conflict, the line in the symbol, would be balanced in the middle. This can never happen, nor could the person be standing only on one side of the circle where they would never be in contact with one of the colors. The dots of white and black represent that there can never be pure separation of the two sides; the whole would not exist as one, it would be two parts. If you were to view a graph of a conflict from start to finish, the shape of the line in the middle, its location, and the sizes of the dots would be in constant motion. Suppose you stood this circle up with a fulcrum in the exact center of it. The circle would only balance on top of the fulcrum if it stays like it appears in the form that it is drawn in a perfect situation. If you make the white small circle bigger, then every thing else would move around too. You would have to find the place that it would balance again. It could still be balanced, and we know that it will stay balanced when we find that spot. How do we find this spot to balnce the whole circle on, and then keep finding it again and again as time passes and the circle changes? Well, the place that it balances presents us. We are always standing in the spot on that line where the whole circle balances. That is the Way. How far we are from the center of the graph determines how the conflict is affecting us. We are the one changing the cirlce over time. Our actions, our karma, pushes the balance point around, and as we change the circle, it changes us too, by acting back on us with dharma. The goal of taoism, and of life, is to find the way to stay in the exact middle of the circle all the time. The perfect state. To do this, you cannot act and react to everything, creating storms of karma and dharma in and around yourself. You must quit trying to go forward against what stands before you; you must not try to do or say the right thing at the right time; you must not dwell on the past or the future. You must simply do what you do as it is time to be done; you must only be and exist. To be a Taoist, you must only continue doing what you already were before. To follow the True Way though, you can only exist.
i have always seen it that nothing is ever out of balance, for before human brains existed to distinguish things, no thing was considered superiour to another, and there was no such thing as "good or bad". it is only our mind which makes this seperation, and causes this dualism. it is my belief that all suffering is a result of this dualism - but in truth it is simply an illusion, and we must remember that beyond our "ego" and our sensual appetites, everything in this world including ourselves is different, yet completely connected and formed from the same energy. until we learn that the tools of our minds are simply that - tools, and not truth, we will be caught in this viscious cycle
Things never get out of balance. It seems to change because we are observing it from another point of view. There is polarity, but you can see that they are two sides of one thing, so, in a sense, there is always balance.
Life=Balance+Unbalance, which is your change in feelings and perception but it's all the same. I dunno, does that make sense?
well you are not looking at the entire picture, i think you are confusing balance with good things, you dont need to try to keep the world balance, (Unless your a tipe rope walker) the real trick is to see the balance in things Oh and just because i saw it mentioned earlyer ok alot of people misunderstand karam, karma translats from sancrip, to doing, so to say something is your karma is to say it is your doing, thats past lives stuff is just popular supersticion, Kinda like the old saying, what gose around comes around
I think it's like a pendulum; it swings one way then swings an equal distance back the other way, etc. I think, like mebesideme said in his anology, the idea is to remain at the fulcrum, in this case the top of the pendulum.
What you have is balance at various different levels. There's a kind of macro balance and micro balance. So the universe remains in balance but not necessarily everything in it. Hence human individuals and cultures can be out of balance in a universe of balance. Even withn the individual human this is true. The body may be working fine, but a person may be debhilitated becasue of some mental or emotional issue.
Unbalanced- is when you experience too much of one the thing and take it for granted. For instance, If you only eat nice, expenive, gourmet food, then you will become used to it and other foods wont seem tasty. But to a homeless person who feeds off scraps, any food would be a blessing. If we only try to experience the best of everything then we are foolish and have much to loose and become unbalanced. This is experiencing ying yang on a personal level. However. If we keep trying to balance everything, then we are foolish because you must experience both balanced and unbalanced phenomena.
3000 worlds in a state of momentary existence; fractal whirlpools of experience, surfing the wave; finding a balance point. Crossing, the river of not, on the bridge of equality; into Infinity.
