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The principles that apply to spiritual life also apply to mundane life but not vice versa. This was reiterated by none other than Lord Bo Tien.
If there is day, then there will be night. Spiritual life and mundane life must be paired like day and night. They are like yin and yang, the balance of which brings peace and ease.
In mundane life, work life balance though a modern day 2013 emphasis is an example of yin yang balance that the sages of old in ancient China has for centuries harp on.
The practice of yin yang balance reaps fruits in spiritual and worldly life here and now and ensures better life here after - perhaps heaven here and now and not wait for the heaven in afterlife.
Even the management of a business or a country must be on the basis of yin yang balance.
Whilst many find life and death, health and ill-health, youth and ageing upsetting and may even be defeated, the wise one find victory in life and is not defeated by life contingencies or vicissitudes.
They join the ranks of the sages of old and welcome life, comes what may.
Even death is no issue. For the wise, there is victory even in death. The wise resurrects his zeal for life ever so often.
The wise cherishes life, every minute of it. He does not run away from life and death but embraces life as it unfurls.
The wise cultivates mastery of yin yang balance and effectively has mastery of life and death. He is a victor even in death.
Thus is it necessary for men to mourn when death too is a victory for the wise steep in yin yang balance?
Mastery of yin yang balance ensures victory even in death.
Thus is it necessary for men to mourn when death too is a victory for the wise steep in yin yang balance?
Mastery of yin yang balance ensures victory even in death.
