Your explanation of Yin and Yang?

Question

From Eastern religions (and probably in many other indigenous ones) comes the concept that opposites both define and complement each other.

What does this mean to you? What do you think of when you think about this?

Answer 1

It is the light that defines the shadow.

Answer 2

Yin and YANG r both the same things,just like the other side of same coin,since both positivity and negativity lives side by side,u can't ignore it,but have the liberty to choose with whose company u prefer to live ,which will ultimately demostrates yr true nature,but u need to live with yr heart,no excuse....i have already told u true religion means only self exploration.

Answer 3

What does this mean to you? What do you think of when you think about this?

I think about this article that explains why Judaism/Christianity led to scientific development that other cultures couldn't attain because of their belief systems.

http://www.christianity.co.nz/science2.htm

China had a notable technological record, especially in engineering - water-power for industry, iron and steel technology, suspension bridges, hydraulic engineering in general, and mechanical clockwork. The careful observation and recording that are essential to science are common in Chinese records. There was early discussion of the hexagonal nature of snowflake crystals. Their discovery of zero, of negative numbers and decimal place values was earlier than in India, as were optics, acoustics and magnetism, with knowledge of magnetic compasses. All this, however, did not develop into true science. No doubt the Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang was one of the main barriers to this. The Yin and the Yang controlled everything else in opposite pairs. The Yang embraced everything round, dry and weightless, which might be seen as physical qualities for scientific examination. But this vanishes when the Yang correlates them with its other non-physical principles of peace, eating, wealth, cheerfulness, celebrity and profit! Likewise Yin embraces everything square, wet and heavy - again physical qualities. But what have these to do with sorrow, drinking, poverty, ignominy and decapitation? No intelligible order or empirical relationships are discernible in this arbitrary jumble of concepts.

Answer 4

It's the paradigm of the dichotomy found in Man and Nature, one that unites the opposites: Good and bad; right and wrong; in and out; up and down; left and right; etc., etc. with the main objective of Man to be able TO FIND and stay in BALANCE from within...

Peace be with you.

Answer 5

balance in everything.