Yin/Yang Symbol Meditation

[Everything]

The Yin/Yang symbol presents these dark and light aspects in perfect balance, but even more so, it tries to blend the two into one. It is one symbol. A circle. Why don't we use the symbol for meditation, we might use it in a wrong way. So we will use it when we are ready for it. Why else would the ancients have left this symbol for us? I suppose it is the key to Tao.

Edited April 16, 2013 by Everything

[Everything]

This either makes sense or it does not make sense.

This makes sense and it does not make sense.

This making sense is this not making sense.

 

We are either using the symbol or not.

We are using the symbol and we are not using it.

Our using of the symbol is our not using of the symbol.

Edited April 16, 2013 by Everything

[Everything]

How do we integrate being and non-being.

 

When you exist, you must by definition also not exist. There is a triad of connection and you must integrate the two in order to establish the link as three.

 

The lock and the key, the closer and the opener, the black and the white. These all coexist simultaneously. Where do they connect? When would you consider them blended? Yin/Yang.

[Rara]

That moment when black and white become indistinguishable and the symbol itself is just a whole...

 

Just like we could be perceived as separate beings...or within on "whole"

 

These days I can't meditate on just "happiness" for example (well, depending on current circumstances of course!) because with just happiness, there is also suffering...therefore separating the two causes imbalance....it leaves us chasing one or the other.

 

Fascinating.

[Vmarco]

The Yin/Yang symbol presents these dark and light aspects in perfect balance,

No,...the Yin/Yang is not in "perfect balance"....perfect balance would instantaneously dissolve all Yin/Yang. Yin/Yang represents the Harmonic Balanced Interchange of phenomena.

 

Because most of our society is asleep, everything is viewed upside down and inside out. For example, we display the T’ai chi T’u symbol arbitrarily. The T’ai chi T’u, or yin-yang, is a well-known symbol that shows dualities’ two primal forces that is simultaneously opposing and complimentary. Although this symbol represents the rhythm of duality within the universe and thus can be viewed in motion, there is a correct, meaningful way to display it statically. The yin, or dark, feminine energy should be located on the left, with its bright eye upward at the top, whereas yang, the bright, masculine energy, should be on the right, downward with its dark eye at the bottom of the pattern. Viewing or displaying the T’ai chi T’u any other way obscures the correct nature of duality. Duality’s reality is not a personal reality.

 

Sciential or cerebral-centric Object-ivists hold some queer views about the nature of our dualistic reality. To understand full-spectrum consciousness, we must grasp the who’s who of polarity. For instance, yang is descending, implosive, spiral-in, warming, structuring and accumulative. Yin is ascending, explosive, spiral-out, cooling, de-structuring, and dissipating. These are not human personality traits, but words that point to the masculine-Yang-centripetal and feminine-Yin-centrifugal pulse of the universe. In polarity consciousness, male and female are equal, simultaneous, pressure conditioned movements in search of balance, the inbreath and outbreath of our reality.

 

Duality seems the most difficult subject for people to grasp. In color theory the terms ebony, black, nigrescent, raven, and coal all express similar relationships of color. The therapeutic society argues that the terms ebony, black, niveous, raven, and virturous are synomynous. Niveous and virtueous have no similar relationship with black. Niveous and virturous imply whiteness. The therapy generation insists that females are implosive, structuring and integrative, and that is fine if one is discussing personality traits. However, in duality, implosive, structuring, and integrative are centripetal actions of heating inwardness, whereas explosive, destructing, and disintegrative are centrifugal actions of cooling outwardness. The male polarity is implosive, heating, long wavelength, low frequency, whereas the female polarity is explosive, cooling, short wavelength, and high frequency. If we said that the female polarity is implosive, we then must use synonyms of implosive for all female terms, like induction, converging, compressing, heating, gravity, etc., and not simply interchange whatever opposites seem to fit one’s feeling about what a female personality should be.

 

In Tantra, yang is said to descend from above (compression, converging, imploding) and manifests the outward shape of the penis. Yin ascends from below (dissolution, diverging, exploding) and manifests the inward shape of the vagina.

 

Duality is simply the diversification out of the illusion of oneness. That is to say, people often miss the fact that oneness cannot exist without duality. Oneness is duality. The many is merely a multiplication of one. There is no center without a boundary, no here without a there. If we are to transcend the struggles of separateness, of useless happiness and suffering, and instead birth human beingness, we must let go of an attachment to what is not us. We are light and love; however, very few understand what that points to.

 

The late second century apology 1 John, says, “God is light, and in him is no darkness.” But what is this light and darkness? Reading further, one finds “darkness is in the past, but the new commandment is true and in the light.” 1 John 2:8 refers to the perceived light and dark of duality. Christian light, however, as will be disclosed, is not true, unconditional, undivided light.

 

The view that most people have of light and dark is biased and confused. The propaganda of self-proclaimed visionaries continue to contribute to the absurd misunderstandings of duality. One visionary wrote that, male yang is “explosive, centrifugal, warming, destructuring, and dissipating, while the female yin is implosive, centripetal, cooling, structuring, and integrative.” Once again, these are ego statements, based on a human-centric viewpoint, not nature’s reality. How is dissipating or destructuring, warming? How is implosiveness and structuring, cooling? These people only encourage a world in which oxymorons are considered meaningful.

 

The reality of duality is this: yin is feminine, spiral-out, diverging, radiative, expansive, disintegrating, explosive, discharging, centrifugal, cooling, dissipating, exhaling, and ascending (notice how these are all complimentary). Yang is masculine, spiral-in, converging, generative, contractive, integrating, implosive, charged, centripetal, heating, accumulating, inhaling, and descending. Intermixing or attributing yin characteristics to yang or vice versa because someone feels that feminine energy should be structuring and masculine energy destructuring is dishonest. There can be no full-spectrum consciousness until the basics of who’s who in duality is understood.

 

Yin is the polarity of explosiveness, that which is spiraling from the center; whereas yang, is charged implosiveness towards the center, and has the potential to explode. As Yang explodes it becomes the yin’s explosive cycle of polarity. When the explosion symbolically fills the top of the T’ai chi T’u, its potential is to implode. The yin then shifts to yang and moves centripetally, back into density. Water is seen as Yin because it is expanding away from denser form.

 

Some practitioners of Chinese medicine also appear confused about the nature and dynamics of duality. Yes, they concede that yin is dark and cold, while yang is light and hot. However, in the same breath, they bizarrely preach that yin is downward and matter, while yang is upward and unformed energy, the direct opposite of reality. In reality, yang is the positive, charged, electric force that manifests gravity, and yin is the negative, discharged, electric force that manifests levity.

 

Because of this, people are media-ted misinformation about the nature and the duality of light and dark. Their prevalent societal construct suggests that light is good and dark is evil. Yet where is such a thing true? Contrary to popular belief, light is neither good nor evil, and it does not conquer dark.

 

Cosmologically speaking, we only see as far into the universe as incandescent light allows, then there is darkness, endless darkness. Many believe that light is an all-pervading expression of wisdom, when in fact it is darkness that is all-pervading from a duality viewpoint. Unlike light, darkness has no boundary, nor does it have a center. In a sense, it is not separated from anything. On the other hand, the incandescent light of duality does have a definable boundary, thus a center. Duality’s light is inherently separate.

 

The light of duality, that is, divided, projected light, can only illuminate the past, because it is itself the past. From a perspective of dualism, the “now” would be in darkness, an idea not very palatable to ego consciousness. This makes any contemplation of the nature of light and darkness forbidden, another taboo, or at least it rips the imagined fabric of society’s delusion and leaves it garmentless, naked and free.

 

Rudolph Steiner, in his treatise Colour, says, “Light is the antipathic expression of duality, whereas darkness, its sympathetic expression.” In other words, darkness is as the womb of creation, through which creation dies into light. To better grasp this, consider thermodynamics. Dark yin initiates compression from cold, thus multiplying cold to create light through yang’s heat. The compressed heat expands, thus dividing crystallized light and yang’s heat back to dark, yin cold. That is the pulse of duality. The Christian God is the masculine light of duality, and in him is no feminine darkness. Such a god will never find or realize balance. Unlike the Buddhist sutras, there is little written in the Bible that suggests God or Jesus was enlightened.