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From Appendix II, of George Ohsawa's "Zen Macrobiotics": The Order Of The Universe 1. That which has a face has a back. (Negation of the law of identity and contradiction in space.) 2. That which has a beginning has an end. (Negation of the above in time.) 3. There is nothing identical in the universe. (Negation of the law of identity.) 4. The bigger the face, the bigger the back. (Negation of the law of the exclusive middle.) 5. All antagonisms are complementary, for example, beginning-end, front-back, justice-injustice, freedom-slavery, happiness-unhappiness, rise-fall, expansion-contraction, love-hate. (Negation of formal logic.) 6. All antagonisms can be classified in two categories--Yin and Yang--and they are complementary. (Foundation of universal dialectic logic.) 7. Yin and Yang are the two arms of Infinity, Absolute Oneness, God, or the Infinite pure expansion. It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to interpret the above as "exclusive." It would be similarly difficult to divorce the above cosmology from the concept of "God." Scott |