The nature of creation is such that all disturbances always revolve around the depth of their own stillness. And even a hurricane, like a pupil of its eye, guards it’s heart-center unmoved.

The only concern of the master is not the life’s tides nor the opponent’s moves but his own equilibrium and inner stillness. And until it is so, he is invincible.⁣

If you are the silent essence of your opponent, how can he defy you? How can he possibly penetrate your heart without becoming himself the depth of the Silence.

Inner equilibrium is that sixth sense that protects you like your guardian angel. And it is winged, and it’s wings are equal and you are in the center…⁣

Veronika Maxim

The country borders in the world are just like fascia layers that separate the organs of our body. When pure and healthy, they support individual organ functions, providing them with a healthy inflow and outflow of all necessary nutrients (Jing), vital energy (Qi) and consciousness (Shen) without which they would stagnate and disintegrate. When the fascia becomes hard, toxic and polluted, the healthy, vital exchange of energy and matter is impeded. Just like in a world filled with fear, the separateness starts to grow. The healthy exchange of information is crippled by distortion, filtering and censorship, no longer allowing us to see the true nature of what is happening in the world around us. People are banned from visiting other countries, sharing their activities and interests with other groups of people, and restricted from healthy direct energy, matter and consciousness exchange, resulting in further increase of disconnection from each other and creation of a constrained, false reality brought by limited, personal and imposed views.

Just like in an unhealthy body, that would require larger and larger amounts of energy in order to breach blockages between the suffering organs, which permanently activates and gradually exhausts our adrenal glands, the separation barrier between countries and people is being dealt with growing fear resulting in an incredible accumulation of stress all over the world. Qi deficiency, blood stasis, cancers and tumors are the results of this disconnection due to energy and matter blockages in the body. Poor isolated countries, surveillance states, growing crime rate, toughened border security measures, continuous development at the expense of natural resources and the health of the planet, are the results of this disconnectedness in the society.

But can we really blame anyone for what is going on? Can we rebel against it and point our fingers at the system that we have created ourselves in order to keep us safe and secure? Can we hate those organs in our body that are sick and deteriorating because of our lack of awareness of their needs apart from our own personal needs? Should we start blaming each other, hating the people at power we have selected ourselves and those that serve us to protect our own safety? I doubt that anything else but further separateness and fear will come out from this kind of a mindset.
The unhealthy barrier, whether it happens on the level of an overly strict country border, a social group, a relationship between two people, a relationship between the intuitive and the rational mind, between organs or cells of the body, is created by disconnection due to a growing self-identity or ego which is a result of a growing fear or insecurity for the personal wellbeing. Paradoxically, the fear and insecurity for the personal wellbeing comes as a result of our disconnectedness from each other and the world around us.

Tread on the path softly but with deliberation.
Don't look back at your footprints hoping for return to safety of the known.
Don't look far ahead hoping to find a well established trail.
Be fully aware, fully present.

“There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.”

- Novalis

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