"THE DELICATE INTEGRITY OF THE TEMPORAL WORLD"
My main reference book for our meridian journey is the excellent, "The Web that has no Weaver," by Ted J. Kaptchuk. There's some great notes on the lung meridian and the lungs as organs, and all their associations, eg "the Lungs concern the momentary and the ephemeral. Healthy Lungs allow for a single moment or any singular episode of time to become complete".
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| The Lung Meridian runs from deep within the body cavity to the Large Intestine, rising to the Lungs and emerging to the surface via the throat. It continues down the arm to the thumb, a branch running down the index finger to connect with the Large Intestine Meridian. |
It seems to be a good time to be thinking about breath and the ephemeral aspect of life as at last we have a general awakening to the fragility of our existence on Earth. Our human health depends on a healthy environment and interchanging elements, nutrients, oxygen, carbon, in an endlessly evolving balance. We breath in what plants breath out.
On the emotional level, the lungs are often associated with grief, longing and "a failure to see the delicate integrity of the temporal world".
