%% LYT_Link people:: #people/mimikuodeemer Lon Setnik dates:: 2022-11-13 %% *There is no light without dark, no good without something to compare to. In itself nothing is one or the other, the duality is the thing.* This reminds me of [[The trouble with wilderness]], how separating humans from wilderness creates a false dichotomy that is unhelpful. It's kind of like [[🐓 Idea Farm/3 Inbox of ideas/situational awareness]] - the situation is what makes particular techniques more or less effective, not the technique itself. > Yin and yang ( and ) is a Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces. In Chinese cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy, organized into the cycles of yin and yang and formed into objects and lives. Many natural dualities (such as light and dark, fire and water, expanding and contracting) are thought of as physical manifestations of the duality symbolized by yin and yang. > >Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary (rather than opposing) forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. According to this philosophy, everything has both yin and yang aspects (for instance, shadow cannot exist without light). Either of the two major aspects may manifest more strongly in a particular object, depending on the criterion of the observation. The **Yin Yang** (i.e. taijitu symbol) shows a balance between two opposites with a portion of the opposite element in each section. > > In Taoist metaphysics, distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral judgments, are perceptual, not real; so, the duality of yin and yang is an indivisible whole. > > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin%20and%20yang) It matters because when we want to polarize, we best unite, when we want to separate, we best join, and when we want to talk, we best to listen, [[first seek to understand]]. ### What would the opposite argument be? There IS such a thing as good, there IS such a thing as evil. Some things are just evil. %% tags: #note/idea | #on/harmony | #on/philosophy %% ## Sources: https://anchor.fm/asepod/episodes/Xiu-Yang-The-Ancient-Art-of-Self-Cultivation-with-Mimi-Kuo-Deemer-ems7n3/a-a3u5c5j