good and evil don't really fit the yin yang theory in themselves - they're moral and ethical considerations.... if you take them in the form of actions then they are yang, if as non-actions they are yin - and within either they can be yin or yang depending on the circumstances. Yin/Yang is non-dualistic even though it is about polarities whereas most (mainly western) moral/ethical/philosophical thinking is dualistic to some degree.... it's all subjective anyhow lol :Angel:
If you look at the yin yang symbol, you will see that there is a white dot in the black and vice versa, denoting that one does not exist without the other - nothing can be entirely yin or yang.
True, but what I said doesn't mean that there has to be an absence of one. You want to effortly move between 99% yin and 99% yang. It's not that nothing can be entirely yin and yang, its that it is undesirable to be so. We want to maintain that dot so we can change from one to the other.
...Which is why Taoism in its purest form has no fixed moral or ethical code... (Slightly off topic...soz) Nature just is what it is, and humans either accord with that or go against it. The later blending of Taoism and Buddhism (plus confucianism for flavouring... ) stabilized into a more monastic/religious bent - but the early mountain-men weren't into any of that according to my old teacher. Great thread btw folks! :Angel:
Depends on whose history you believe. Chen version - profound impact on Taijiquan Chang san feng version - no direct impact on taijiquan itself but a massive one on Taoism itself. :Angel:
It's a long and complicated history: Taoism - Buddhism - Confucianism... (And probably off topic) Suffice to say, the Chinese pick and mix them together at leisure ime... :Angel:
