Messing around with the Tao symbol

[Owledge]

Spontaneous idea. Not meant to make any deeper sense.

 

 

[Marblehead]

Cool!

 

Be Well!

[Desert Eagle]

very good.

[mYTHmAKER]

Spontaneous idea. Not meant to make any deeper sense.

 

Interesting. However I see it more as opposition and static rather than cyclic flow.

[Owledge]

Interesting. However I see it more as opposition and static rather than cyclic flow.

Yeah, funny, isn't it. By the looks of it. ... And beneath it's all just triangles.

The question is: Doesn't a flow need a static basis that causes the flow? A flow is motion. Doesn't the whole concept of motion vanish when there's nothing static? No opposite. How could there be coolness without warmth?

... Is it the Tao? But can the Tao be called static? Isn't it neither static nor in motion?

 

 

Just been thinking.

[mYTHmAKER]

Yeah, funny, isn't it. By the looks of it. ... And beneath it's all just triangles.

The question is: Doesn't a flow need a static basis that causes the flow? A flow is motion. Doesn't the whole concept of motion vanish when there's nothing static? No opposite. How could there be coolness without warmth?

... Is it the Tao? But can the Tao be called static? Isn't it neither static nor in motion?

Just been thinking.

 

look at the actual tao symbol - 2 little fishies chasing each other - always changing - nothing static

our concepts of the way things should be are static LOL

[Josh Young]

I play with designs too! It is fun!

I like the symbol you made!

Here is one of mine:

And one based on a binary mathematical pattern drawn from the trigrams:

Edited July 20, 2009 by Josh Young

[Li TaoRen]

I am not trying to be pretentious but there is always confusion about this icon. Some call it tao symbol, some yin yang. The proper term is Taiji; just so everybody knows.

Spontaneous idea. Not meant to make any deeper sense.

[Nanashi]

Some of my renditions of the taiji:

 

 

and

 

[minkus]

Wow very nice symbols all

[Owledge]

I am not trying to be pretentious but there is always confusion about this icon. Some call it tao symbol, some yin yang. The proper term is Taiji; just so everybody knows.

Thanks for reminding. I didn't think. Of course the Taiji is a symbol of duality or complementary opposites, while the Tao couldn't be farther from that. How could there be a symbol for the Tao?

 

I should at least have written "Taoism symbol" to make it a bit less incorrect.

 

 

@Nanashi

Your second picture obviously follows the style of fractal images. Nice depiction of the micro- and macrocosm.

Edited July 29, 2009 by Hardyg

[Andrei]

 

 

[Li TaoRen]

Yes. However the symbol appears to represent duality, Yet on a deeper level illustrates the transcendance of duality. Opposites may"exist" but they are part of a whole which arose from emptiness.

Thanks for reminding. I didn't think. Of course the Taiji is a symbol of duality or complementary opposites, while the Tao couldn't be farther from that. How could there be a symbol for the Tao?

 

I should at least have written "Taoism symbol" to make it a bit less incorrect.

@Nanashi

Your second picture obviously follows the style of fractal images. Nice depiction of the micro- and macrocosm.

[Nanashi]

Painted a recent one, turned out well:

 

[Owledge]

I like the depiction of the symbol in a non-perfect circle for a change.

Makes me think whether that is important at all or whether the composition of the symbol already says everything. Kinda funny to look at the painting.