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The Yin Yang symbol portrays the pairs of opposites which are seen throughout the universe: good and evil, male and female, hot and cold, wet and dry, light and dark, sweet and sour. An ancient Chinese metaphysical and philosophical concept, Yin and Yang represent two complementary primal forces that also are the opposites of each other. Even though the Dao (Tao) pairs of opposites are differentiated into Yin and Yang, each of the opposites also embodies the essence of the other. Yin the darker more passive element was downward seeking and corresponded to the night. Other qualities attributed to Yin were stillness, silence, tranquility, calm, impurity, autumn, winter, right, introversion, earth, even, moon, the ordinary person, female, heavy, deep, cool, rest, feminine, north, profound, the number six, the number eight, and the breath that formed the earth. Yang the lighter more active element was upward seeking and corresponded to the day. Other qualities attributed to Yang were movement, expansion, increase, purity, clarity, precision, spring, summer, warm, active, sun, heaven, the sage, male, weightless, masculine, left, south, extroversion, odd, the number nine, the number seven, and the breath that formed the heavens.
Yin and Yang were not absolutes. Although all aspects
of the natural world were classifiable as either Yin or Yang, Yin and Yang did
not remain static. They were in a constant state of flux. For instance, in the transformation cycle of water,
Yin cold water when heated to the boiling point became Yang hot steam.
Both Yin and Yang were equally important. Within each Yin aspect there was a seed of its complimentary Yang opposite aspect. Within each Yang aspect there was a seed of its complementary Yin opposite aspect. Both Yin and Yang are interdependent. Without Yin night, there would be no Yang day. Both Yin and Yang flow harmoniously together and transform into each other. For example at sunrise night turns into day. Both Yin and Yang balance each other. As one increases the other decreases. When Yin and Yang do not support each other harmoniously, excesses and deficiencies of Yin and Yang occur. In Chinese traditional medicine, the bodies of both males and females have a Yin organ meridian with a downward flow of energy and a Yang organ meridian with an upward flow of energy. An imbalance of the Yin-Yang ration results illness. The symbolic colours of the Yin Yang Symbol pictogram of the Supreme Ultimate are black symbolizing darkness and white symbolizing light. Within the circle of the Yin Yang symbol there were swooshes that seem to be moving into one another. For instance full became empty, cold became hot, passive became active, and night became day.
There were also a small Yang circle within the Yin,
and, a small Yin circle within the Yang to depict how the Yin and the Yang were
both interdependent on each other, as well as, always in a constant state of
transformational flux. Everything in the universe was a mixture of both Yin
and Yang. Within the darkness of the night sky there was the light of a myriad
of stars.
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