03-24-2002, 08:20 PM
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Yin/Yo(Yang)
From the book by Aveline Kushi, "The northern side of the mountains toward the sea and Matsue is called San-Yin (Yin Mountain). The southern side toward Hiroshima is call San-Yo (Yang Mountain). Yo is the ancient word for yang. In Chinese, yin originally meant the cloudy, dark, cold side of a peak, and yang referred to the sunny, bright, shining side. In the natural beauty of the mountains and forests, the fields and streams, we intuitively experienced yin and yang, the primordial energies of the universe."
Ying/Yang - black and white halves of a circle - seems to present good and bad. Is this true? Or just opposites?     
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04-02-2002, 11:09 AM
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visible/invisible
let's put it this way: you are experiencing something which you label as the "good" because it feels right, it acts right, the experience of it seems to be "right." that's fine. but at the
same time that you are experiencing what you have said to be "the good," can you equally say what is the "bad"? try it! you can do the same thing with the notions of visible and invisible. look out from the computer screen into your room. see everything in front of you, make a note of every item visible. now, can you tell us what is "invisible"? or, you can see aveline's sunny side of the mountain in front of you. lovely landscape. you can say to yourself, "there is the other side of the mountain for sure!" but of course, you can not see it! the orientals do use this shorthand notation for all of this. yin and yang. very cool.
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04-06-2002, 05:52 AM
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Mistry wrote (in part):
>Ying/Yang - black and white halves of a circle - seems to present >good and bad. Is this true? Or just opposites? RC: Any set of phenomena that oppose and compliment each othe; good/bad, left/right, dark/light, male/female, up/down, sodium/potassium, heaven/hell... I hope this helps. In peace, Roy
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04-07-2002, 12:44 PM
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Then it must create balance and harmony. thanks ~Mistry (Brenda)
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05-18-2002, 03:48 PM
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I found this website with a nice graphic and written explanation of the white and black halves of the Yin/Yang symbol. The white half on top representing the sun, and the black half on the bottom representing the moon.
http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/yinyang.htm "In general, the Yin Yang symbol is a Chinese representation of the entire celestial phenomenon. It contains the cycle of Sun, four seasons, 24-Segment Chi, the foundation of the I-Ching and the Chinese calendar." ~Mistry(Brenda)
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