Healthy systems cluster toward the middle.

Nature thrives in balance, and as nature, so do we.

My name is Jeff Krasno, and welcome to the commune podcast.

So about five years ago, I went on two parallel inquests, one into my own

physiology, initially through curiosity and eventually by physical necessity, and one into the more

mystical realm of Eastern religions, Buddhisms and Taoism. And what I found was quite interesting that

there was tremendous overlap between the metaphysical and the physical. In fact, the more I

studied the physical, the more axioms and tenets of the metaphysical were revealed. And this was

certainly true around the concept of balance. So in

Buddhism, for example, there's this concept called Madyamaka, which is the middle way. It's a central

philosophy of Buddhism. And initially it was about finding that middle path between asceticism

and hedonism.

But eventually it got applied more broadly just to avoid extremes, the thinner edges of things,

and to cluster towards the middle.

And as I began to apply that concept more broadly, I was like, yeah, that's a good philosophy.

Because in economics, for example,

the healthiest system clusters towards the middle. It's a distribution of wealth in a middle class.

It looks like a bell curve. In ecology, for example, we see a balance of species. This is known as biodiversity.

In the body politic, we see cooperation and coherent and middle ground

that characterizes healthy political systems.

And of course, when I began to apply this concept to human physiology, I saw this

balance or this kind of a lot or momentum for achieving balance in almost every component or aspect

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