The Unknown Winter

What actually happens in winter ?
– “Nothing, everything is asleep”.

Is it ?  Maybe not.  Spring requires such vast energy to surge upwards that in the Winter a great deal of work is done.  What work ?  And how is it done ?

Humans identify with Summer and Harvest, beaches, time off, public holidays and so on.

Winter doesn’t mean very much in the human society, perhaps it is just the bad bit before Spring.   But surely Winter is as productive as Summer but in a different way.  How ?  Why ?  What happens in Winter ?   What happens in the roots of the leaf-less trees, or in the bones of the sleeping bears ?

How can we master the 5 Elements if we are not intimate with all the Elements, if we do not know what wonderful things happen in Autumn Winter and Spring.

Wu Xing.