[RascalPuff]

Yin Yang ('Tao')



The diagrammatic symbol of Tao is ambivalent; not to be confused with ambiguous. The antithesis-apparent is an illusion which actually represents mutual and reciprocal - supportive - complementarity. It's functional and spiritual occurrence in nature, philosophy, physics and phenomenology (by any and all other names of equality and unity) is apparently boundless. It is not infrequently misunderstood, especially by Westerners, hence, it's offered subjection here.

This thread hopes to be a - however modest - celebration of the I Ching/Tao/Ying-Yang (YinYan) and it's emergence throughout Western as well as Eastern philosophy, physics, philology, epistemology, ontology and omniscience.

What it relates to is also - in this forum - a matter of what is posted as an example, by whom.

"Is not the *I Ching a perfect book?" - Confucius
(*The Chinese Book of Changes)

"I Ching opens up the knowledge of the issues of things, accomplishes the undertakings of men, and embraces under it the way of all things under the sky...

"The sages made their emblematic symbols to set forth fully their ideas, appointed all the diagrams (64 hexagrams) to show fully the truth and falsehood of things; appended their explanations to give the full expression of their worlds." - Confucius (551 - 479 BC)

It is said that Confucius three times wore out the leather thongs that bound his copy of the I Ching, so often did he refer to it. No library is complete without it. - James Legge, speaking of the I Ching

(Refer: The Portable Dragon: The Western Man's Guide to the I Ching, by R. G. Siu)
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IMHO, a worthy, perhaps unending thread, comparable to the Upanishads or the Gita. Thank You - One and All - for Being The Light.

Regards,
- RP