June 17, 2011

Intercross the sun
with rain to raise the rainbow:
union’s brief, bright child.

Hybrids are offspring of mixed parentage, so the rainbow must also be a type of hybrid being the offspring of sun and rain.  Hybrids are the key to finding solutions to today’s problems.   Consider the world of opposites within which we live: light and dark, hot and cold, male and female, life and death, left and right, black and white, hard and soft, etc.  In all cases the extremes are extremely dangerous.  One opposite must be tempered and balanced by the other; the two must be joined in union.  Neither opposite must be an enemy; they both must be accepted and brought together into balance like the yin-yang symbol.  Neither is good or bad.  What is good is the union of the two.  This is Buddha’s Middle Way.  This is Jesus’ request to love your enemies.

It is from these unions of opposites that this world knows balance and beauty.  The rainbow is just one example.  Take another example from nature: water and land.  When we go to extremes, we either get floods or drought.  When they are in balance, we get life-sustaining verdure and beautiful seacoasts.  As this holds true in nature, it holds true in us who are a part of nature.