The Apricot Grove Episode 5: Decoding Nature With the Neijing
Jul 5, 2024
They explore how cyclical patterns in nature map onto economic systems, health, and career change. The conversation contrasts nature as a birthing, seasonal process with modern resource thinking. Topics include ancient models of motion and transformation, restoring local ecology, and retelling stories to reshape capitalism and communal life.
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Growth Without Decay Becomes Pathology
- Perpetual growth is unnatural; unchecked growth is pathological like cancer.
- The Neijing emphasizes seasonal cycles—growth paired with decay—so continual expansion destabilizes systems.
Let Go Before You Grow
- To grow something new, intentionally identify and let go of what must die first.
- The Neijing guidance: attend to autumnal endings to create space for springtime emergence.
All Things Are Motion And Transformation
- The Neijing offers a unified model: all things are motion and transformation across scales.
- That single patterning applies to economics, health, relationships, and cosmology as varying motions of the same principles.