Question about Yin and Yang, does it support Reincarnation?

Question

One of the tenets is:

Yin and yang can transform into one another.

At a particular stage, yin can transform into yang and vice versa. For example, night changes into day; warmth cools; life changes to death. However this transformation is relative too. Night and day coexist on Earth at the same time when shown from space.

does it follow then that death changes into life?

Answer 1

To answer your question, yes. The basic concept is a balance of two opposites. So the tenet about transformation you quoted refers to the shifting of power/balance between the two opposites, life to death and death to life. It's a funky way to look at it though, I personally wouldn't use yin/yang to support reincarnation.

Answer 2

i'd say it does because I don;t really call it yin and yang but I do believe in a balence and it's balically the same and I beleive in reincarnation so. consider life as a human bad and evil because humans have evil content but its natural then death comes whitch is good because where theres death there is no pain and i can become something other than human that uses survival rather that greed and hate and well you get the point. I hope you can understand what I'm saying I have a bad way of putting things lol

Answer 3

~~~Mayor,,,, But of course,,,Yin and Yang, or Tai Chi, is Karma in Action. Reincarnation is The Duality of the Life/Death Re-Birth Cycle. "Death" in this context is only the ending of Physical Life transforming into the After-Life. This is referred to as being on The Wheel of Karma. I don't know if "support" is a proper word to describe. I would say that YinYang is The "Dynamic" of reincarnation.

Answer 4

The Seal gives a good explanation of ying and yang. BUT - your final question is: how does this relate to reincarnation? It doesn't. It can be related to the cycle of life in the biological sense without stretching Taoism too far, but not to souls reincarnating into new life forms. That's a thought foreign to Taoism.

Answer 5

When is there no life?
The concept of dark and light being symbiotic is definitely akin to my belief.. but, death is experiential.. we only know it from the loss side.. we have no idea what the gain is thereafter.. there is always life. Who knows whether we are reincarnated, or we just become a food source for something else... it is all speculation.

Answer 6

It does. Death and therefor the organic materials associated with it are taken up by other life forms. A pregnant woman eats animal protein which is broken down into it's amino acids which are then built up into new proteins by the developing fetus.

Answer 7

The concepts of yin and yang originate in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics, which describe two primal opposing but complementary principles said to be found in all objects and processes in the universe.

Yin (Chinese: 陰 or 阴; pinyin: yīn; literally "shady place, north slope (hill), south bank (river); cloudy, overcast") is the darker element; it is passive, dark, feminine, downward-seeking, and corresponds to the night.

Yang (陽 or 阳; yáng; "sunny place, south slope (hill), north bank (river); sunshine") is the brighter element; it is active, light, masculine, upward-seeking and corresponds to the day.

Yin is often symbolized by water or earth, while yang is symbolized by fire, or wind.

Yin (receptive, feminine, dark, passive force) and yang (creative, masculine, bright, active force) are descriptions of complementary opposites rather than absolutes. Any yin/yang dichotomy can be seen as its opposite when viewed from another perspective. The categorization is seen as one of convenience. Most forces in nature can be seen as having yin and yang states, and the two are usually in movement rather than held in absolute stasis.

In Western culture, the dichotomy of good and evil is often taken as a paradigm for other dichotomies. In Hegelian dialectics, dichotomies are linked to progress. In Chinese philosophy, the paradigmatic dichotomy of yin and yang does not generally give preference or moral superiority to one side of the dichotomy, and dichotomies are linked to cyclical processes rather than progress. However, taoism often values yin above yang [1], and Confucianism often values yang above yin.

Answer 8

Very interesting.

It follows alright.

But I lost the question.

As for reincarnation. Its a vague theory. What if you never learn your lessons?

Answer 9

thank you everyone for the answers!