This new blog is just to give myself a change of pace from the recipe blog I suppose.
Yesterday, as my husband and I were driving back from a holiday, we got talking about thermodynamics in a random context. For me, it was a conundrum and created a cogent impulse to explore the universal truth of the term. If one were to consider the universe a closed boundary system and all energy to pass within it from higher to lower states, in constant motion, then isn't that the same truth that can be applied to the ying and yang of almost everything?
If yang stands for everything white, good, pure...and if yin stands for everything black, dark, diabolic, though it could never mean that these two states of being are integral in their nature, each maintaining its identity, not influencing the other.
If that were true, then I find little comfort in that hypothesis. I always believed that the only ever thing that symbolized pure good / pure evil and existed as two separate states was fictional- Stevenson' Jekyll and Hyde, in which one man represented the yang of all character - Jekyl and the other man represented the yin of all mankind- Mr. Hyde. In other words, it is virtually impossible to find a man who is completely bad or completely good.
Supposing yin and yang stand for tradition and change respectively. Do these not complement each other. Does change not happen in the backdrop of a strong traditional base? What would be the existential state of tradition without change and vice versa? Thus energy flows happen between these states constantly, and in a larger context between everything that possesses ying and yang attributes.
This I believe is also true of people. Good people influence others through a flow of positive energy from their attitudes, their dispositions, their traits, similarly we see many wise people get influenced by negative energy flows.
Thus, the ying and yang in this world is interlocked in a constant battle. This battle between these states of polarity is what maintains the equilibrium in the world as we see it.
