Yin and Yang – The Line of Essential Balance

Question

Fae asked: what is a 'Line of Balance'?

In terms of the Yin and Yang there is a fine line of balance that we are able to walk without falling towards either side of the equilibrium. This is an abstract concept that has a number of interpretations in spiritual philosophies. I'd like to bring up 3 here.

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Emotional vs Emotionless

There are a number of self-aware individuals that are 'advanced' in the spiritual arts who speak of a detachment from their emotions.

There's this idea in New age thought that the more detached we are from our emotional states the more spiritual we are. However being too attached or too detached are both opposites — with a line in the middle.

From a core energetic perspective when someone detaches from an emotion that emotion floats out of their center and either behind them, in front of them, or to their side. So it's still there. The individual is just not attaching to it. On the other hand if we attach too much to emotions then those emotions begin to create a thin emotive aura around our energetic bodies which hides the Core Self beneath it.

Logical vs Intuitive

The next major imbalance I'd like to mention is the search for what's "Right" – the search for what's "True" and absolute.

Being human we need a sense of essential truth to survive. If someone takes our core beliefs about the world from us then we slip and fall on our backs. For some that truth comes from knowing the facts — the logic behind the situation. For other individuals it's more a matter of faith.

The line of balance comes in when we merge faith and logic to a place where both work together and in tandem. For instance when dealing with emotions faith and trust are more predominant – when dealing with facts (e.g. risk management or cost evaluation) the logical mind serves us well.

The problem arises when we bring home our logical mind and start trusting our intuition to guess the width of one of the walls at work for a new window installation.

Essential Good vs Essential Evil

The final imbalance I'd like to bring up is the idea we have of essential goodness and essential evil. Most of us can't avoid this divide in the mind. To be good there has to be an evil 'out there' that we can compare that goodness to.

"I'm not X – therefore I must be good"

For the individual who lives through the line of balance good is not quantifiable and neither is evil. The more we categorize things and people as good or evil the more imbalance we create. In taking the middle-path we're able to see both sides without over-attaching to one of them.

The Point of all this

Is there a point to living through the line of balance rather than taking sides?

I'm not going to strive be too emotional nor too emotionless. I'm going to express who I am instead.
I'm not going to rank logic higher than intuition, nor intution above logic. Both are essential tools in the arsenal of perception.
I'm neither going to claim that I'm a good person or an evil person. I'm going to be an individual in-tune with his or her own Essential Core Self.

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