Is the Yin Yang symbol the ultimate expression of the division of God's Singular essence, the gift of life?

Answer 1

Look. It is a loser expanding his circle of ideas. Perhaps you can take over Chinese philosophy by expanding your imagination. Evidence of course is a waste of time. You undoubtedly know nothing about Chinese philosophy, but are dreaming.

Answer 2

No. The Yin/yang symbol is the symbol of the Tao, not any deity.

But even if you want to talk in general rather than technical terms, the answer is still no. Christians define their deity as perfect as in pure, referring to only the Yang energy. The Tao symbol is a balance of the yin and yang energy, of light and dark together. Life and Death not only depend upon, but create and nourish each other. There is no life without the nourishment that death provides, and there is nothing that lives that does not die.

The Tao doesn't take sides;
it gives birth to both good and evil.
--Tao Te Ching

Whereas the Christian deity can't stand anything not pure and holy being near it, in Taoism yin and yang live in harmony and balance, and each contains within it the seeds of the other.

The Tao is beyond anything a deity could ever be.

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
--Tao Te Ching

Answer 3

I think it has more to to with a simple enough observation about the universe - that for most every concept we have, we can think of an opposite. And there may be no opposite for, say, an orange, but there are opposites for its qualities - straight-lined vs. round, dead vs. alive, inedible vs. edible, etc.

It's like a natural human tendency to categorize things in this world, from your emotions, to the sexes, to ideas of good and evil, in terms of the presence or absense of certain qualities. Positive and negative. And the Buddhists see this nature as being two sides of the same coin; that dichotomies are natural, to be embraced and accepted. Death, therefore, isn't to be feared.

Are dichotomies the way we should view the universe? Why resort to binary logic, black or white, when there is so much gray? So much that defies our perhaps artificial attempts to categorize and separate ideas?

Is the symbol the ultimate expression of anything? Maybe not - there may be more elaborate or more clear ways to express it, such as in a book. But the symbol is also aesthetically pleasing (artistic/beautiful), so that helps us accept that the idea itself is beautiful in a way.
And whether it has anything to do with God ultimately depends on whether God is even there.

Answer 4

it symbolizes dark and light forces. Hot and cold. And within the darkest thing there is a component of light - and vice versa. Truthfully, there is no good or bad to the colors. Sure you can think of them as creative and destructive forces (dark is maybe destructive) but destruction isn't inherently bad - it's just recycling. Western (Abrahamic) gods tend to be 10 on a scale from one to ten with a presumption that anything less is not godly. That god is anything but balance - typically.

Answer 5

In Islam its a YES. There r similarity. They r mentioned in "the 99 names of Allah."

Answer 6

No, it has nothing to do with your God, get your theiving christian fingers off of it!