Balance: The Simplest Ascension Lesson

February 6th, 2020

By Ethan Indigo Smith

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

In spiritual circles today, everyone talks about ascension  – but few speak of balance. In order to practice basic self-development or metaphysical development – in order to become, in other words, we must be balanced. Without balance there would be no stability in being and no potential to become. Without balance, there is no ascension. Balance is the little mentioned and perhaps most important idea in philosophy, metaphysics, Hermetics, Tai Chi Chuan, and all processes of self-development.

In the most basic sense, we must know our imbalances to become balanced. How can we know we are acting like a juvenile know-it-all, if we are not sensitive to it? It might be obvious to others, but the one playing out the pattern might remain oblivious to their own behavior! The only way juveniles, and adults behaving like juveniles, develop is through awareness and then balancing the imbalances.

The key to balance is of course first being sensitive to what balance is. Tai Chi practice is sometimes referred to as sensitivity practice. We develop sensitivity to situational reality internally and externally. We realize our internal and external relationships and can thereby take action to initiate balance toward more refined being ad becoming. Tai Chi is subtly the most efficient manner to embody balance and then ascend, just as it is obviously the most efficient practice to heal and then strengthen. The symbol known as the Yin Yang symbol is more accurately The Taiji symbol, the embodiment of balancing the spiritual and material, Yin and Yang aspects of The Taiji or Taijitu.

Without balance there is hardly any ascension, and what ascension there is may be ascension in imbalance, which can obviously lead to tipping and descension. With balance, ascension is not difficult. Taiji and the Taiji symbol are entirely about balance. Not so coincidentally, Thoth is the god of balance as well as the god of writing and healing – but I digress.

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