THE
YIN YANG SYMBOL.
On the grand scale, the interlocking black
and white shapes within the circumference
of the circle are representative of the
cyclical nature of the natural world. Day
becomes night, summer becomes autumn, hot
becomes cold … and life becomes death.
The day is represented by the white section
and night by the black. The dot (or 'seed')
of black in the white and the seed of white
in the black implies that 'nothing is all
black and nothing is all white' … and
therefore it follows that there is nothing
that is 'all good' and there is nothing
that is 'all bad', 'all right' or 'all wrong'
… … … and so on. |
Essentially
- the black section of the Yin Yang represents
the YIN - or as I call it, the Down
and In. So accordingly, the black/Yin represents
the passive, the slow, the quite and withdrawn.
The thinnest part of the black is 'minimum
Yin' and the thickest maximum Yin. Maximum
Yin moves on to 'minimum Yang' i.e. the
thinnest white bit.
The white YANG section represents
the aggressive, the quick, the loud and
bright - with the thinnest being just 'dim'
or 'luke-warm' and the thickest being dazzling
or 'white-hot'. Thus, the 'not very loud'
and 'not too bright' or 'minimum but more
than nothing' Yang more or less overlaps
(or is the same thing as) the maximum 'just
a little muted or slightly dulled' Yin. |
