Yin and Yang: negative (female) and postive (male) complementary forces of the universe central to Chinese thought since perhaps as early as 1,000 BCE.

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Yin-Yang:

Chinese symbol for the Laws of Polarity and Synthesis.

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opposite but balancing male and female principles - yin is female
(Moon) energy, negative and passive; yang is male (Sun) energy,
positive and active

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Yin and Yang: Principle of polarity in Chinese cosmology, in which the opposite poles eventually blend and become one another in a cosmic connectedness.

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yin and yang

The law of universal change; the forces and tendencies that differentiate from One Infinity and manifest as centripetal and centrifugal energy, space and time and are the origin of all relative worlds

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Yin/Yang

Chinese names referring to the active and passive principles of the universe. Yin refers to the female or [in-active] negative force; Yang to the male or active force. These two polar forces continually interplay with each other. The words are used to describe the constant How of motion and change in the universe (i.e., the "Tao").

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Yin/Yang

Taoist terms referring to the active and passive principles of the universe.

á      Yin refers to the female or (in-active) negative force;

á      Yang to the male or active force.

These two polar forces continually interplay with each other. Both are necessary and both must be harmonized for proper function. This Yin and Yang also flow through the human body so that a balance is required to maintain health.

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Yin/Yang

Taoist terms referring to the active and passive principles of the universe.

• Yin refers to the female or (in-active) negative force;
• Yang to the male or active force.

These two polar forces continually interplay with each other. Both are necessary and both must be harmonized for proper function. This Yin and Yang also flow through the human body so that a balance is required to maintain health.

(See also: Yin/Yang, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Yin Yang

The Yin Yang is a Taoist sumbol of the interplay of forces in the universe. In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang represent the two primal cosmic forces in the universe. Yin (moon) is the receptive, passive, cold female force. Yang (sun) is masculine- force, movement, heat. The Yin Yang symbol represents the idealised balance of the forces; equalibrium in the universe.

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Yin & Yang Taoist terms referring to the active and passive principles of the universe. Yin refers to the female or inactive negative force; Yang to the male or active force. These two polar forces continually interplay with each other. Both are necessary and both must be harmonized for proper function. Yin and Yang flows through the human body so that a balance is required to maintain health.

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Yang (Chinese) The bright aspect -- as the sunny side of a hill -- in contrast to yin, the dark side. In mystic Chinese literature and in Taoism, yang is associated with the masculine aspect, while yin refers to the feminine aspect. Thus tao is regarded as the interaction of the revolving changes produced by the yang and yin: yang referring to immaterial, celestial force and substance; yin, to material equivalents.

Popularly everything of a beneficial aspect is associated with yang, while everything of maleficent tendency is related to yin. However, this limits the original conception of yang and yin as forming the two contrasted sides of the universe, for one cannot exist without the other, and each in its own way is as important as the other.

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Yin (Chinese) The dark aspect, as the shady side of a hill, while yang means the bright or sunny side. In Taoist and mystic Chinese literature, used philosophically as the opposite of the light side of nature or yang; thus yin is said to be the female aspect, often mistakenly called the weak side. Chinese scholars have described tao as the annual revolution of changes produced by the yin and yang. The yin is popularly assimilated with the earth, which is cold and dark. Yin is considered as the binary, while yang is the unitary (SD 2:554).

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Yang

See Yin and Yang

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Small Yin

One Yin line atop one yang line representing Fall in the I Ching

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Small Yang

One yang line atop one yin line representing Spring in the I Ching

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Kwan-yin, Kuan-yin (Chinese) The Chinese Buddhist goddess of compassion, the female aspect of Kwan-shai-yin, referred to in the Stanzas of Dzyan as the triple of Kwan-shai-yin, residing in Kwan-yien-tien, "because in her correlations, metaphysical and cosmical, she is the 'Mother, the Wife and the Daughter' of the Logos, just as in the later theological translations she became 'the Father, Son and (the female) Holy Ghost' -- the Sakti or Energy -- the Essence of the three.

Thus in the Esotericism of the Vedantins, Daiviprakriti, the Light manifested through Eswara, the Logos, is at one and the same time the Mother and also the Daughter of the Logos or Verbum of Parabrahmam; while in that of the trans-Himalayan teachings it is -- in the hierarchy of allegorical and metaphysical theogony -- 'the Mother' or abstract, ideal matter, Mulaprakriti, the Root of Nature . . . a correlation of Adi-Bhuta, manifested in the Logos, Avolokiteshwara; and from the purely occult and Cosmical, Fohat, the 'Son of the Son,' the androgynous energy resulting from this 'Light of the Logos' " (SD 1:136-7).

Kwan-yin is the Chinese counterpart from one point of view of the Egyptian Isis, the Hebrew Bath-Qol -- the "daughter of the (Divine) Voice" -- and of the Hindu Vach.

"She is male and female ad libitum, as Eve is with Adam. And she is a form of Aditi -- the principle higher than Ether -- in Akasa, the synthesis of all the forces in Nature; thus Vach and Kwan-Yin are both the magic potency of Occult sound in Nature and Ether -- which 'Voice' calls forth Sien-Tchan, the illusive form of the Universe out of Chaos and the Seven Elements" (SD 1:137).

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Ka-yin. See CAIN

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Qai-yin (Hebrew, Jewish). The same as Cain.

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Kwan-yin (Chin.). The female logos, the "Mother of Mercy".

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yin

"Shady side of the mountain", earth's receptive or yielding principle and one of the two fundamental energies of the universe; the relative tendency of centrifugal, expansion, growth, diffusion, cold, darkness, and other qualities whose energy tends to go up and outward

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