Balance

As Swami Chetanananda  so frequently pointed out.  Balance is a dynamic.  Trying to maintain ones balance without rebalancing is not feasible.  Balance, like trying to stay balanced on a bicycle is a good metaphor for the balance life demands.  It is dynamic and ever changing.  You balance on your bicycle and when it is time to stop riding you get off and shift to a new type of balance on your feet.  Not being able to effectively shift balance while riding or not being able to balance while ascending the bicycle to the earth in walking is dangerous.  And it is not a pose of balance to be bicycling or walking, but the dynamic of balancing and rebalancing, where if one were to pretend that one has a static pose that is perpetually balanced one is liable to bump his nose in a fall.  Balance is not dangerous. Imbalance could well be though.