Kun

Kun comes close to the conception of Earth which we know as Gaia, the great Mother. As the ocean did not play an important part in the lives of the ancient Chinese, those aspects of life which in the West accrued oceanic and aquatic symbols were represented in China by symbols of the Earth: these include unity, fecundity, understanding, tolerance, e mbrace, plenum, capacity and the mystic’s truth. And of course there are the more “earthy” meanings of ba sis, ground, substance, substratum, support, accessibility and as many gifts, simply, yet conditionally, provided, as one is capable of accepting. The dimension is breadth, the range of the possible, or the field of options with an infinite number of paths.