Every day is comprised of yang and yin

I suppose that our world is comprised of yang and yin.  One win and the other lose.  We sometimes feel happy, on the other hand, we sometimes feel sad.  Yes, our life is two sides of the same coin like light and shadow, men and women, good and evil, joy and sorrow, and life and death.  When I observe one thing, I can find two inseparable things hidden there.  They are yang and yin.  Therefore, it may be said that I feel yang and yin energy every day connecting to this real world.

As a matter of fact, I practice Tai Chi (Qi gong) and Zen meditation every morning and night although each practice is only 15 to 20 minutes or so. I started these practices one year ago in Japan when I struggled with my stress and felt losing my mind and body balance.  These practices have given me inner peace, and mental-body balance.  I can receive a harmony with the world practicing these exercises.  While practicing Tai Chi, I try to remember the concept of “無為自然.” This means “abandoning artifice and just being oneself.”  This is the philosophical idea of Lao zi.  Now, in our modern society, there are a lot of artificial things in daily life.  For example, a mobile phone, a car, a TV, a computer… The list goes on and on.  It is true that those items have made our life very convenient and efficient, but I suspect that we rely on them too much.  I think that we sometimes only have to go au naturel doing Taoism’s practices.  That is because each of us have own inner microcosm in our body.  Yes, we are a universe.

I would like to live my life being always conscious of Taoism’s precept.