Yin Yang

Everything has the potential for extreme positive and negative.



A fresh berry bursting on your tongue

or

enough food so you have to be lifted from your house by a crane.



Making love

or

rape



And we often find things as they approach the negative more exciting.

It is our curious nature to want to abuse things. We are like the rat

that hits the cocaine button till it dies. Odds are we would get bored

in Eden and go searching for the fruit.

This is why religions never work. We begin with a pure premise of good

and through jealousy and competitiveness pervert it into what we always

get. What do we want? Peace on earth or beheadings. Humanity or death

in the streets. From Baghdad to Belfast it's all the same.

Maybe it is just in our nature to keep pushing that button.

Nice rant.

As far as Yin Yang goes I'm not sure you got the picture. Yin and Yang are immoral. Niether is good or bad. Without yin we would combust, without yang the air around us would freeze.

Also Yin and Yang are not extremes. Take a candle for example, that is (under most circumstances) yang. Now put it next to a nuclear bomb and it's yin.

Blessings

Sebbi

Originally Posted by Sebbi

Nice rant.

As far as Yin Yang goes I'm not sure you got the picture. Yin and Yang are immoral. Niether is good or bad. Without yin we would combust, without yang the air around us would freeze.

Also Yin and Yang are not extremes. Take a candle for example, that is (under most circumstances) yang. Now put it next to a nuclear bomb and it's yin.

Blessings

Sebbi

I think you mean that these fundamental qualities are amoral, not immoral. There ia a big difference.

The main thing is that their action is balanced - the balance flows from tao.

I don't believe the ancient Chinese sages regarded the universe as ultimately dualistic - the yin and the yang constantly transform and change - yin into yang and vica versa - both are somehow held in balance and have their ultimate source and consumation in the Tao.