Fine balancing

 

"Within the white calm of yang, there is a black spot to remind us that order can arbitrarily turned into chaos, often through our own actions. And within the dark yin is a white dot, to similarly remind us that chaos can just easily be turned back by us into order." - Meira Chand in her article 'Emerging from a time of chaos into a new order'.

Only reading this article do I understand the meaning of the dots within each white and dark segment ie, the turning points. 

During Chinese New Year we wish each other 新年快乐 万事如意! ie. (Happy New Year & May everything goes well as you wish). Quite a tall order but still we wish that for everyone. In Chinese horoscope everyone belongs to one of the 12 zodiac animals. Every year some zodiac animals will fare better than others in life circumstances , almost like taking turns. Except for a few, life for most people will traverse high and low points throughout life, or even at any one point there will simultaneously be blessings and challenges albeit in different proportions. Hence what is important is the ability to balance between the two, like what Meira Chand describes as 'living on the middle line that separates cohesion from confusion'.

 

However it takes a clear and steady mind to recognise the white dot when immersed in the dark yin, in order to turn chaos into order and similarly the dark dot in the white yang reminds one to be wary of excessive attachment to good things. Hence the best wish we should offer one another perhaps should be:

"May you balance well"