For every disease cured a new one takes its place.
For every war ending a new one is beginning.
For every gadget invented there is an adverse effect.
For every technological invention there is more disconnection
For all the ease there is more stress
For every convenience we are becoming softer, and more dependent.
This is life in the dimension of duality.
It’s not always easy to see how something that’s made convenient or easy is harming us.
After all what can be so harmful about Uber or grub Hub and having some food delivered? Well now that your food is
delivered to you don’t have to walk anywhere, and you don’t have to go outside. You may say I can still walk when I want
and that is true, yet most won’t and even you will walk less. What can be so harmful about cell phones or the internet?
It’s not that these things are inherently harmful yet they, like all things, become harmful when used in excess. When a child
is overusing or abusing something the responsible parent steps in and stops this behavior. Yet who steps in when it’s the
adult overusing or abusing?
If the parent doesn’t step in, then the child burns themselves and if the child survives, they now have learned the danger of
fire. Basically, burn and learn. Yet there is nothing wrong with harnessing and using fire it just needs to be respected and
used intelligently. We adults may have learned this from childhood, but did we? In other words, “fire” is a metaphor for
everything! After all, “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” but all play and no work makes Jack a fat boy! We all can
step back and see this. If you look around your home, we might agree that 60%, 70% or maybe even 80% of the stuff we
have is not truly needed, and all the stuff takes coal and oil to produce. This and many other unnecessary things are what’s
creating global warming.
How can even exercise be good for us if the universal law says, “the harder you are on anything the faster you destroy it”? In
this case it is only good when used intelligently which means moderately which is probably why walking is commonly
referred to as the healthiest exercise. It is gentle or moderate. This is the same for everything, EVERYTHING! This brings us
to the concept of gentleness or balance which are interchangeable here with moderation “the master key”! In this age of
global warming, planetary toxicity, nuclear armament, obesity, alcoholism, deforestation and even information overload etc…
There is no moderation!
Finally, going back to exercise the healthiest one is the ones that are moderate, not too intense, or extreme. If you just take
a walk or go for a bike ride or swim you are not going to get yourself into that Lululemon outfit two sizes too small and you
won’t be able to grow your bicep bigger than your head so you can crush people with your bare hands! In other words, for
moderation, you would need to be more dominated by your intelligence than your desires. Our society not only doesn’t
support this it encourages the opposite, as there is very little money to be made or machismo and vanity to be appeased in
moderation. We laud excess in everything and it’s poisoning us!
Moderation truly is love in action! It says I CARE. Just as the responsible parent takes the matches or sugar away from the
child because they care.
The Great Balancing Act
