"There is so much balance in the world."
"There is so much balance in the world"
...I was thinking about this statement.
If you were to daily observe a microcosm, would it reflect the larger community that is one ripple out from it?
And if so, how far does it go? To the dawn of time? Is it something like peering back through space-time with a high power telescope lens and observing fragments of a big bang in action?
Maybe it is like watching something in nature die - how it becomes sustenance to something else? Does nature truly operate with no waste? Pests and pestilence may even have purpose in maintaining "balance" in the natural order of things even when it tends to lie outside of our care or ability to acknowledge and understand? "Waste" is relative.
If we wanted to live on this planet in such a way as to stop disturbing nature's more rhythmic cycles, we'd have to become the ultimate recyclers. We would be mimicking, or modeling ourselves in the image of the natural world.
What about balance within our own order/class/phylum?
What if the fact that I happen to live in a warm home right now while there is snow out on the ground, and that I was able to eat 3 meals today, and that I am in a relatively "safe" and "stable" country, is balance in contrast to all of those less fortunate in such matters this very moment?
If we all considered such a curious theory I think it could at least contribute to making us more compassionately connected with others. Because, if balance worked as such, then such large contrasts are merely markers of how out of balance we have become with one another - the playing field is no where near level and the divide between haves and have-nots is too wide, too distinct, too real.
Perhaps it would behoove us to make a regular exercise out of pondering what the "balance" may be to anything we are involved in (thinking, saying, doing) and how we are living. I could see that it may help us to be more generous toward one another. To be the tribe of humanity instead of the scourge born of individual selfish ego.
...I was thinking about this statement.
If you were to daily observe a microcosm, would it reflect the larger community that is one ripple out from it?
And if so, how far does it go? To the dawn of time? Is it something like peering back through space-time with a high power telescope lens and observing fragments of a big bang in action?
Maybe it is like watching something in nature die - how it becomes sustenance to something else? Does nature truly operate with no waste? Pests and pestilence may even have purpose in maintaining "balance" in the natural order of things even when it tends to lie outside of our care or ability to acknowledge and understand? "Waste" is relative.
If we wanted to live on this planet in such a way as to stop disturbing nature's more rhythmic cycles, we'd have to become the ultimate recyclers. We would be mimicking, or modeling ourselves in the image of the natural world.
What about balance within our own order/class/phylum?
What if the fact that I happen to live in a warm home right now while there is snow out on the ground, and that I was able to eat 3 meals today, and that I am in a relatively "safe" and "stable" country, is balance in contrast to all of those less fortunate in such matters this very moment?
If we all considered such a curious theory I think it could at least contribute to making us more compassionately connected with others. Because, if balance worked as such, then such large contrasts are merely markers of how out of balance we have become with one another - the playing field is no where near level and the divide between haves and have-nots is too wide, too distinct, too real.
Perhaps it would behoove us to make a regular exercise out of pondering what the "balance" may be to anything we are involved in (thinking, saying, doing) and how we are living. I could see that it may help us to be more generous toward one another. To be the tribe of humanity instead of the scourge born of individual selfish ego.