The Yin and Yang The yin and yang is a concept emerged Eastern philosophy based on the duality of everything in the universe. Describe the two fundamental forces opposing but complementary, found in all things.
According to this idea, each person, object or thought has a complement of that depends for its existence and which in turn exists within himself. From this it follows that nothing exists in its purest form nor in absolute stillness, but a continuous transformation. Also, any idea can be seen as its opposite when viewed from another perspective. In this sense, the categorization would be for convenience only. These two forces, yin and yang, would be the next phase after the taiji or Tao, the generative principle of all things, from which they arise.
principles of Yin and Yang 1. The yin and yang are opposites.
Everything has its opposite, although this is not absolute but relative, since nothing is completely yin or all yang. For example, winter is opposed to summer, but a summer day can be cold and vice versa.
2. The yin and yang are interdependent.
can not exist without each other. For example, day can not exist without night.
3. The yin and yang can be further subdivided into yin and yang.
Any yin or yang aspect can be further subdivided into yin and yang indefinitely. For example, an object can be hot or cold, but in turn may be burning hot or tempered and cold, fresh or frozen.
4. The yin and yang consume and generate another.
The yin and yang form a dynamic equilibrium: when one increases the other decreases. The imbalance is only something temporary, because when one grows in strength over the other to focus, which ultimately leads to further transformation. For example, excess vapor in the clouds (yin) causes rain (yang).
5. The yin and yang can transform into their opposites.
The night turns into day, warm, cold, life in death. However, this transformation is relative too. For example, the night turns into day, but at the same time coexist on opposite sides of the earth.
6. In the yin and yang there is yin yang.
There is always a remainder of each in the other, which means that the absolute is transformed into its opposite. For example, a buried seed supports the winter and is reborn in spring.
Graphic Graphically, the concept is usually represented by a symbol called Taijitu, "taiji diagram, which has not always been drawn in the same way. In its current form best known, the dark, usually black, represents the yin and the clear, usually white yang. These two interlocking parts are called in Chinese fish (鱼, 鱼, yu). The line between them is not straight, but winding, representing the dynamic equilibrium between the two concepts and its continuous transformation. Points of different colors symbolize the presence of each of the two concepts into the other.
Flag In South Korea there are four of the eight trigrams and a simplified representation of Taijitu in red and blue.
Another way to represent the yin and yang is a solid line (yang) and a game (yin). By repeating these lines would have four states (the yin yang all the way through various states intermediate). If we use three lines, we get eight combinations, known as the eight trigrams (八卦, bagua), from which arise the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching.
Trigrams Three lines on paper are a trigram. The trigram is associated with a variety of meanings, the table summarizes the meaning of the eight listed in the Taijitu. Image Quality Family Name
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Ch'ien The Creative strong
Father Sky
☷ dedicated Kun The Receptive Earth Mother
raised movilizante ☳ Chen Lo Thunder
first child ☵ dangerous Kan The Abysmal Water
son Ken
☶ Mountain The third son still Appeasement
penetrating ☴ Sun The Gentle Wind, Wood first daughter
☲ Li Adherent The Second Fire Light
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daughter Tui The exhilarating Sereno Third Lake
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