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Kushi's "Heaven"
A few years ago I attended a lecture by Michio Kushi in Boston. A number of other cybermacro subscribers attended as well. During the lecture, Kushi started to use the terem "heaven" and gave it a yang designate. As both George Ohsawa and Herman Aihara classify "heaven" as yin I asked Kushi to clarify his definition of what heaven is (in front of an audience of nearly 200).
As I had assumed he was not talking about the same "heaven" as we Westerners use it in our modern colloquial (sp?): as the "place" were only the good go after they die; or the void in which all the celestial bodies are suspended; or the sky (atmosphere) that envelops the earth
(all are Yin, correct?). No, Kushi was clear that the heaven he was talking about was the energy that is generated by the solar system from the interaction of the sun, gravitational forces, orbiting physical bodies, etc. Quite correctly these forces are tremendously yang, but like the bodies from which they emanate, all are held within a larger void of space which in itself lacks gravity (the term free-fall is used instead) and this SPACE is YIN.
I hope this helps.
In peace, Roy
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