Cleric K wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:00 pmAnd this is why we need to know our relative position. If we are in the place of some Creator and we are laying down the principles of the universe, it would be meaningful to think in the above lines. And we can truly feel the truthfulness of the above - yes, from the perspective of Cosmic Source/Void it's all about rhythmical alterations between the Cosmic Feminine and Cosmic Masculine (happy holiday to all representatives of the Great Mother). But we can find our path toward balance only if we have the full picture.Lou Gold wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:48 pm Yup! Clearly, one can be blinded by the light as easily as lost in the dark. The challenge is always, balance or right amount. Bucky's lingo was surely more better. Even in Judeo-Christian hierarchical archetypology, the Archangel holds the 'dark one' at right distance, in balance without slaying him. It is the conquesting, colonizing, superior thinking ones who believe they can defeat/deny the dreaded who make things worse than they need to be. Good working relationship with the Source involves appreciating (seeing full value) in all that flows from It. "There's a season for all under heaven." Conqueror beware.
Here's an analogy. Let's imagine the balance as a seesaw. Let's further imagine that this seesaw is on one end of a much larger seesaw. Both can be on one end of an even bigger seesaw and so on. This is a limited analogy because just like any fractal analogy, it presents things as too rigid branching structure. Nevertheless, it can serve as an illustration for the following: if we are conscious only of our seesaw, even if we balance it perfectly, this doesn't at all tell us what our position is in relation to the larger. The bigger is a higher order seesaw, our oscillations are within its context and we need higher order consciousness in order to perceive that everything we do in our normal state is carried on these higher order oscillations.
The above analogy illustrates why someone who seems to act one-sidedly may be actually striving to work for balancing of a higher order imbalance. And conversely, if we perfectly balance our perceptible seesaw (for example the self/no-self seesaw) and just rest peacefully, believing that we've accomplished our Cosmic duty, we're simply being blissfully ignorant of the higher order imbalances that must be addressed.
That we are living within higher order imbalances is quite clear if we simply look with unprejudiced eye. It's quite obvious that the balance of dark and light is something that must be balanced on a much higher level. Just a look around shows that there's way more darkness than light. We should really strive "one-sidedly" toward the light if we want to restore the higher order seesaws. If we really believe that it's all about balancing the perceptible seesaws we arrive at multitude of nonsensical ideas. For example: it's discriminatory/one-sided to be healthy - we should have equal parts health and sickness. It's one-sided to strive for truth - we need balance between truth and lies. It's one sided to seek wisdom - we need balance between wisdom and stupidity. It's one sided to strive for peace - we need balance between peace and war. We need balance between clean air and pollution. We need balance between love and hatred. Balance between honest work and crime. The list can go on and on. We don't even need higher knowledge to perceive the logical fallacy here. It's just healthy common sense (of course things get nowhere if it's believed that healthy common sense is one-sided and some irrationality must be added to balance it out).
Sorry, but your endless analogies simply don't work for me. Here's an excellent example:
For example: it's discriminatory/one-sided to be healthy - we should have equal parts health and sickness.
Of course not but your strawman of "equal parts" does not defeat the "steelman" of needing to adjust the balance to changing conditions. The great irony of the post-Columbian plague that wiped out 90% of the indigenous population of the Americas is that the "too healthy" natives had no defenses against the disease-ridden Europeans who arrived with immunities born of centuries of plagues. Somewhat similarly, it's a big current surprise that sub-Saharan African is doing quite well compared to early expectations in the global pandemic. Many factors are involved, including having a youthful population, but the epidemiologists feel that decades of living in close proximity and vulnerability to epidemics has borne a population that is more resilient both physically, behaviorally and societally. As Shu noted, appropriately, "Turn, Turn, Turn."
). An adolescent needs balance between work/study and play. As long as there's balance all goes relatively easy. If play begins to outweigh study then the latter begins to pile up. Then there's an inflexion point where returning to study becomes outright difficult and the path of least resistance would be to keep on the downslope of play. This again connects with the seesaws. It could be that the child feels completely balanced by flowing with its impulse for play yet the higher order imbalanced seesaw is outside its consciousness. That's why it's the role of the adults to guide the developing child. If the child is to ever go again towards balance it would have to swim upstream, against the resistance of the currents. Nothing comes for free.
). The question contains its answer. More and less is a qualitative symmetry that does not cancel each other and annihilate. And thus, Bucky's creative principle of parsimony, doing more by less, is intimately tied with sloth. 
