Much like our Bible, which relates how God created heaven and Earth from a void, classical Chinese cosmology describe a still and empty ether, pregnant with infinite possibility, from which the world spontaneously organized into the harmonious interplay of opposing forces we see today.
The good news is there is a third option: to engage things more deeply, bringing our passion and energy and intelligence to bear on creating a whole that includes us, although it may not be controlled by us, a whole that evidences a harmonious interplay of opposing forces.
Hippocrates (c. 460 377 bce) believed that diet and exercise would unleash natural forces to promote harmonious bodily functions.
Even as they share a microphone – something of an iconic symbol of the group's once harmonious songwriting partnership – it seems forced and gimmicky, something they are expected to do rather than a display of a mutually felt impulse born from a desire to express themselves collectively.
Likewise married people can seldom enjoy happy, harmonious marriage, as psychologists would force it upon them and lead them to believe.
The cherished myth of the rock 'n' roll band as a tight, harmonious unit fending off the corrupting forces of the outside world doesn't hold true here.
The harmonious resolutions of the novels seem forced and are neither decisive of the action nor definitive of Dostoyevsky's total tragic view.
Through shamanistic rites or collective ceremonies, humans must encourage and maintain their harmonious integration in the universe, controlling the forces that govern it; their beneficial or harmful effects are largely determined by human action.
"Work hard to build the same spiritual home for all ethnic groups, focus on building a strong positive force for a united, beautiful, harmonious and happy socialist Tibet," Chen said.
The core concepts are that the body is not an independent material organism, and that health depends on a harmonious relationship between the physical body, vital force, soul, and ego.
