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stevev said:that you can start with the more complex structures and work back to the simpler ones. I've been seeing that theme in a couple of places too. Maybe we're just missing the unrecorded or lost history ?
bruce_g said:The same idea bugs me about the development of trigrams evolving only after hexagrams.
The academics' assertions seem backwards and unnatural to me.
heylise said:I have the same problem with "zero". Read somewhere that someone, or even a culture, had "found that out" sometime rather late in history. And it was not about using zero in a decimal system, it was the plain and simple symbol for 'nothing'. As if before that time nobody had any concept of 'nothing'. And no word for it.
Strange...
Yet in Western culture, a yin/yang dichotomy did not develop.bruce_g said:I get a chuckle every time I hear that yin/yang was a later development in Yijing or Chinese philosophy, as it is the difference which is distinguished earliest in life.
ewald said:Yet in Western culture, a yin/yang dichotomy did not develop.
bruce_g said:It seems a thoughtful man spends half of his life stripping away all he has learned, so that when ripe with age he may return to what he knew as a newborn child.
bruce_g said:...A system can be constructed along any point of development, but the system doesn’t “make” anything besides a system. In many cases, it’s doesn’t even create a greater awareness of the principles involved. In many cases, it actually moves awareness away from those underlying principles...often we become so excited over coming to an understanding of a Gua or line, but if we communicate that revelation to most “simple folk”, they nod their head as though to say, “So?” Our enthusiasm toward our specialty creates the idea that our specialty is solely responsible for the inception of the idea; as though no-one could understand the fundaments of Yin/Yang without having first read Chinese philosophy.
denis_m said:As categories, "yin and yang" did come later than Qian and Kun.
Yin is a more generalized and abstract category than Kun.
The female anatomy says more about Yin than all the words you can find to explain it.
ROFL!!!the female body can be seen as more "convex" than not
both in science as in religion, do that by excluding facts which do not align with their way of thinking.
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