Yin Yang is masculine and feminine. Harmony of masculine and feminine principles. The symbol of Yin and Yang is a real help to a person

A. A. Maslov

Yin and Yang: Chaos and Order

Maslov A.A. China: Taming of dragons. Spiritual quest and sacred ecstasy.

M.: Aleteya, 2003, p. 29-36.

The concept of yin and yang - two opposite and complementary principles - permeates everything in the Chinese cultural tradition, from the system of government and relations between people to the rules of nutrition and self-regulation. It also extends to a very complex system of relationships between man and the spiritual world. The image of the yin-yang symbol (in fact, it is not ancient and arose quite late) as dark and light semicircles has almost become calling card throughout East Asian culture, and can be found on the covers of Western diet books, healthy lifestyle life, philosophy, religion of China.

Yin-yang has become so closely associated with the “Chinese theme” that they are perceived as some implicitly inherent principles. The concept of yin and yang most accurately conveys the Chinese perception of both the external world and the world within themselves. However, this should not be taken primitively and simplistically.
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First of all, it is necessary to dispel the established myth about the essence of yin and yang: in Chinese culture, they have never been “fixed” to some pair of opposites, as is commonly believed in popular writings. This means that yin-yang was by no means equal to dark-light, male-female, sun-moon, etc., and this error has already been repeatedly criticized by experts. Nevertheless, such a primitive interpretation can be found both in modern Chinese literature and at the level of everyday Chinese notions. In this way, true essence yin-yang - so, it would seem, repeatedly stated - remained hidden. It seems to us that the very understanding of the “intimate” in Chinese culture is impossible without the correct awareness of yin-yang,

The principle of yin and yang extends far beyond such a simplified view, it lives at the level of perception of the spiritual world, the relationship between man and society, the Chinese and the “barbarian” foreigner. Even in politics, China is one of the few countries that, in all agreements, invariably demands "duiden" - the parity of relationships, measures and steps.

The concept of yin-yang meant the presence of the first division in general, which marks the actual generation of the entire material and spiritual world. It is easy to understand that the creation of culture for China is, first of all, the ordering of entities, the cessation of chaos.

The perception of the world by the Chinese is always situational and never constant, i.e. the world is constantly transforming, and therefore nothing exists truly and to the end, nothing is true by its nature and initially. Actually, the motive of truth, which can only be given as a constant transformation, is the basis of the mystical representation of yin-yang.

The very situational nature of perception gives rise to the idea of ​​a constant transition of opposites into each other, therefore yin-yang is not equal to the female-male binary, and the male-female, empty-filled pairs are only a consequence of such a binary type of thinking.

Initially, yin and yang meant, respectively, the shady and sunny slopes of the mountain (such an understanding can be found, in particular, in the I Ching) - and this symbolism perfectly reflected the essence of these two principles. On the one hand, they represent only different sides of the same mountain, not reducible to each other, but not different from each other, on the other hand, their qualitative difference is determined not by the internal nature of the slope itself, but by some third force - the sun, which alternately illuminates both slopes.
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For the magical space, neither yin nor yang, as well as luck or misfortune, are absolute - these are just sides of one phenomenon, and their division into “good” and “evil” parts of life occurs only at the ordinary level, in the mind of an uninitiated person. The Taoist, for example, is well aware that “only in the Celestial Empire did they learn that beautiful is beautiful, ugliness immediately appeared. As soon as everyone knew that good is good, evil immediately appeared. For presence and absence produce each other. Complex and simple create each other” (“Tao Te Ching”, § 2). The mystical law of “pair birth” (shuang sheng) launches an endless wheel of mutual generation, which can be stopped only by avoiding first separation altogether. The motif of an endless “ring”, where all parts are equal to each other, is also played out in the “Tao Te Ching”, where it is said that “before” and “after” follow each other, that is, in the mystical world there is no division into “beginning” and "end". In essence, this is the absolute embodiment of the Tao, which is equally "stretched to the left and to the right" ("Tao Te Ching", § 34).

Separately, these qualities do not exist, since in this case the thing/phenomenon (y) is isolated from the world flow and the consonance of the world is broken, it is assigned a certain “name” (min), while the true Tao is “nameless”.

The sacred space of being in China is in absolute binary balance of yin-yang, which manifests itself even at the level of everyday beliefs. For example, if someone died in the house, then some happy event will soon happen in it, but in the case of the birth of a child, happiness and luck may bypass the house for some time. Moreover, it is believed that luck will visit first of all those who helped to dress or wash the deceased or actively prepared the funeral ceremony. This is considered a reward from the soul of the deceased (gien) to all those who came to the funeral.

Formally, yin and yang are considered absolutely equivalent to each other, and this is how they are interpreted at the everyday level. But the realities of Chinese occultism show that there is no absolute equality between yin and yang.

In the mystical closed tradition, yin was considered more valuable and higher. It was it that was a generalizing metaphor for everything hidden, hidden, secret, which was so highly valued in China. It was the beginning of yin, for example, that was “depicted” in Chinese landscapes behind painted water mountains or orchids. It was yin, as the dominant and all-encompassing, but constantly hidden principle, that stood behind all the power of the imperial decor.

understand so great importance yin is not difficult - in fact, put-dao itself was nothing more than the embodiment of yin. The Tao has all the traits of yin and one trait of yang. First of all, it is "hidden", "obscure", "vague". It also has purely feminine functions - it generates all the phenomena and things of this world. It always slips away, it can neither be felt nor expressed. Tao in many ancient treatises turns out to be synonymous with water - its compliance, the absence of a permanent form:
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The female always overcomes the male with her peace.
Being at rest
she occupies the bottom position. (« Dao Te Ching » , § 62)

Knowing the masculine, keep the feminine,
becoming a hollow under heaven.
Be a hollow of the Middle Kingdom, -
then constant Grace will not leave you. (« Dao Te Ching » , § 28)

The tradition of concealment and disorder, the unformed yin is also present in the concept of the beneficial energy de. It is the fullness of de that distinguishes true masters and great rulers, emperors from other people. However, everything carries a part of grace-de. But Grace is not divine, as a manifestation of the Highest God, but absolutely self-sufficient and self-full energy. It acts as an infinitely “hidden” (xuan) and “refined” (miao) energy, which is why it is not noticed by the uninitiated. Moreover, any true beneficial energy is hidden, and in any other capacity it cannot even exist.

Nevertheless, "hidden grace" is everywhere, like a vital fluid, washing and saturating the whole world. This is also manifested in the concept of being filled with souls or spirits (lin) of the whole world. The souls of the dead, for example, rush in the streams of water and wait for the moment when they can connect with the blood streams of living beings in order to be reborn later. They come to life in some Yellow Waters (huang shui) - streams formed in the spring by melted snow.

The beginning of yin here in a striking way acts both as a hidden receptacle of invisible and disordered spirits representing the world of the dead, and at the same time as a beginning that gives life and existence in general, like the way-Tao.

Let us note that in the Chinese tradition, water was obviously associated with fertility (as in most peoples), as well as with childbearing function. Part of this was due to connotations between water and the way-Tao. Both of these beginnings did not have a permanent form and took the form of "the vessel in which they were poured." Here and pliability, elusiveness, following the changes. However, the most important thing is that Tao also gives birth to myriads of creatures, while giving an impulse to life, but then does not rule over them, leaving the highest degree of freedom of development: "Give life and not rule." Tao, like water, "occupies a lower position" by analogy with how all the waters from the top tend to the valleys. “The female, also occupying the lower position, rules over the male,” says the “Dao Te Ching”. All these hydraulic allusions about the Tao-will found in Lao Tzu are echoes, and sometimes even quotations, from ancient mystical cults recorded in the 6th-5th centuries. BC, but having a much earlier origin.
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It would seem that water should correspond only to the feminine principle yin as malleable and giving birth. In general, as we have already said, in ancient Chinese mysteriology, yin always prevails over yang in terms of internal occult reality, since Tao rather corresponds to the beginning of yin, rather than equally symbolizes them both. However, water was most often a symbol of the life-giving seed, regardless of the male or female principle - I think this symbolism arose long before the Taoist concept of Tao-water.

Water generally symbolizes a certain rhythm of life, the spirits of the dead live in it in order to be reborn again, it is filled, according to various legends, with either qi or jing seed. For example, the ancient treatise "Guan-tzu", attributed to the author of the 7th century. BC. (in reality, the text was written a little later), an adviser to the ruler of the kingdom of Qi, speaks of water as a childbearing principle and a symbol of a “true” person: “Man is like water. Only when a man and a woman are together, his seed-ching and her energy-chi unite, there is an outflow of waters that give form to the [new] man.

The situation is quite different in the secular tradition, which, by the way, could include many things that outwardly look like some kind of “secret”. Here, the beginning of yang, on the contrary, was rated higher. Sometimes this is explained by the patriarchal orientation of society, where the man, i.e., the spokesman for the beginning of yang, played the main role. Even rituals are known, thanks to which a woman (i.e. yin) could move to the level of a man (i.e. yang) and thereby improve her status. Basically, such rituals were associated with various “transformations” of menstrual blood, which at that moment was considered the embodiment of yin energy. In one of these rituals, in particular, the son symbolically drank the mother’s menstrual blood and thereby elevated her to the status of a man. At the same time, he himself strengthened his energy through the intake of this “secret” principle, i.e. yin. It is no coincidence that the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties specifically ordered the collection of menstrual secretions of young girls - longevity pills were made from them, which also significantly increased
male energy.

Heavenly spirits and the highest spirit of antiquity, shan-di, were presented as the highest moment of ordering, absolute harmony and order. This is the beginning of yang, and it is they who help the soul after the death of a person to maintain its
individuality, due to which descendants can refer to it in the future.
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These features were also transferred to the representative of the Shang-di on earth - the emperor, the Son of Heaven. This harmonizing and ordering influence is opposed and at the same time supplemented by the world of the beginning of yin, represented by spirits of the gui type, which signify chaos, unstructured mass and entropy, harmfulness and destruction. Moreover, the spirits themselves and shan-di may not represent some mystical entities, but only a metaphor for the eternal collision of an unstructured mass (spirits of the gui, including those in purgatory) with a clear structure and hierarchy, represented by the good celestial spirits shen. Such a strange structure of understanding the world as an alternation of chaos-order even allowed some researchers to talk about the presence of some single metaphor for the perception of the world, and it is difficult to disagree with this. Ideas about spirits, about complex heavenly hierarchy ultimately were not only objects of faith, but a metaphor for the imperial-hierarchical unity: chaos and order in esoteric world always have their exact reflection in the world of this world.

Yin is an obvious primordial chaos, it is a person's appeal to the very source (more precisely, to the source) of one's own emergence. Chaos in Taoist thought, as well as in all mystical schools, has a positive and creative character, since it symbolizes the indivisibility and unity of the world. It is a sign not so much of the birth of the world as of the potentially inherent possibility of the birth of anything without a clear definition of its essence. It is the possibility of everything and the potency to everything in its absolute amorphousness and uncertainty. Its metaphors are the concepts of “original lump”, “echoing emptiness of the cave”, “boundless” (wu-i, zi), “pre-heavenly” (xian tian). This is the abode, which has no forms and boundaries, where knowledge and ignorance, birth and death, being and non-being are merged.

The entire imperial culture - the embodied yang - opposes the symbolism of the "original coma". It is designed to divide and "give out names", and the almost paranoid craving of ancient Chinese sages and modern politicians for ordering and creating clear value hierarchies is nothing more than an attempt to embody the principle of the prevalence of yang over yin. At the same time, this is the principle of secular culture - here yang dominates yin, while in the mystical paradigm yin is the only possible outcome of the confrontation and complementarity of yin and yang.

Mystical cults, embodied in Taoism and in some folk rituals, on the contrary, they gave priority to yin, given that Tao itself acts as yin - it is malleable, invisible, its allegory is malleable water that has no form, a hollow, a female womb. Thus, the mystical teachings by no means put an equal sign between yin and yang, but apparently, with their concepts of “secretly hidden”, “amazingly hidden”, they tried to turn a person to the beginning of yin. Here just

the priority of chaos was cultivated as a primordial, undifferentiated state over order as something frozen, rigid, approaching death. The arrival at a preborn indivisibility is manifested, in particular, in the myth of the unborn child. Thus, Lao Tzu compares himself to a baby "who has not yet learned to smile," who "shows no signs of life." It is noteworthy that this is one of the rarest passages where Lao Tzu speaks in the first person in the Tao Te Ching treatise, here one can hear the speech of a dedicated preacher and mentor.

Ultimately, it is "gravitation towards yin » gave rise to the seeming marginalism of Taoist and underlying mystical culture. She avoided the manifestations of yang in every possible way, practiced ecstatic cults that eliminated the order and harmony preached by the imperial officialdom. Numerous sexual cults were practiced here, not recognized by the official authorities. In particular; they worshiped gui spirits, associated with yin and harmfulness in general, the graves of murdered robbers and fallen women, rituals of summoning spirits, talking with them, traveling to the world of the dead were performed.

The common thesis about the mystical "transition of yin to yang" (yin yang jiao) had a very real, albeit very unusual refraction in Chinese folklore. He, first of all, touched upon the possibility of transforming the person himself, more precisely, his most characteristic feature - the change of sex. In Chinese magical stories, the moments of the transition of a woman into a man and vice versa are often discussed. Sex change could be performed by various magical methods, such as miraculous pills or with the help of Taoists or wandering magicians.

This is partly due to the same exceptional occult magic, shamanistic archetypes that lived in the minds of the Chinese and appear in folklore. A change in appearance is generally a common part of occult rituals, since entry into the beyond world is characterized by a general transformation of the external appearance of the adept - this emphasizes the fundamental difference between the world of spirits and the world of people. And this is what implies in a number of cases the temporary rebirth of a person in a different image and appearance, including the transition of a man into a female deity.

Thus, one story from a Taoist collection tells of a woman who, after a long absence of a man, with the help of magical means, managed to reincarnate into a man, inseminate herself, and then, again as a woman, give birth to a child.
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Moreover, in the Chinese tradition, such miraculous transformations also had a didactic connotation: here even magic was used with the pragmatic goal of serving the ancestors. The girl regretted for a long time that she was not born a young man, because only a young man can fully perform all the ritual rites for the deceased ancestors, and above all for the father. Tormented by her inability to fully embody the ideal of filial piety (xiao), one night in a dream she saw a spirit that opened her stomach and put something into it. When she awoke from her sleep, it turned out that she had turned into a man. In general, such stories could well draw inspiration from 3. Freud, however, in general, the motive of reincarnation, sex change has here not only a psychological, but also a religious-shamanistic aspect. Undoubtedly, Chinese folklore, even of the latest times, reveals the deepest aspects of the human psyche and demonstrates what was carefully blotted out in the Western tradition, sanctified by Christian norms.

Thus, the composition of yin-yang turned out to be a universal scheme of the sequence of events, most often perceived as absolute order and absolute chaos, and it was chaos and the beginning of yin that turned out to be attributes of the mystical culture of China. Everything true associated with yin, therefore, became hidden and hidden and was represented in this world through symbols, numerical and color magic. And, as a result, came the realization of the existence of a certain magical scheme of being, equal to absolute non-being, which must be calculated.

B.L. Riftin

Riftin B. L. Yin and Yang. Myths of the peoples of the world. T.1., M., 1991, p. 547.

In ancient Chinese mythology and natural philosophy, the dark principle (yin) and the opposite light principle (yang) always acted in pairs. Initially, yin apparently meant the shady (northern) slope of the mountain. Subsequently, with the spread of the binary classification, yin became a symbol of the feminine, north, darkness, death, earth, moon, even numbers, etc. And yang, originally, apparently, meaning the light (southern) slope of the mountain, accordingly began to symbolize masculinity, south, light, life, sky, sun, odd numbers, etc.

Among the oldest such paired symbols are cowrie shells (feminine - yin) and jade (masculine - yang). It is assumed that this symbolism is based on archaic ideas about fertility, reproduction, and the phallic cult. This ancient symbolism, emphasizing the dualism of male and female began, received iconographic expression on ancient bronze vessels in the form of phallus-shaped protrusions and vulva-shaped ovals.

Not later than the Zhou era, the Chinese began to consider the sky as the embodiment of yang, and the earth as the embodiment of yin. The whole process of the universe and being was considered by the Chinese as the result of interaction, but not the confrontation of yin and yang, which tend to each other, and the culmination of this is the complete merging of heaven and earth.

The Yin and Yang system was the basis of the ancient and medieval Chinese worldview, and was widely used by the Taoists and in folk religion for the classification of spirits, for divination, etc.

A.I. Pigalev, D.V. Evdokimtsev

Pigalev A.I., Evdokimtsev D.V. yang and yin.

History of Philosophy. Encyclopedia. Minsk, 2002, p. 1347-1348.

yang and yin - mutually conjugated concepts of the ancient Chinese philosophical school of Taoism, as well as the Chinese symbol of the dual distribution of forces, including the active or male principle (Yang) and the passive, or female principle (Yin). It has the shape of a circle, divided in two by a line resembling a sigma; the two parts thus formed acquire a dynamic intention, which does not exist when the division is carried out by means of a diameter. (The light half represents the power of Yang, and the dark one means Yin; however, each of the halves includes a circle - cut from the middle of the opposite half, thus symbolizing the fact that each of the modes must contain the germ of its opposite.) It was assumed that nature and man are generated by Earth and Heaven. At the moment of the beginning of Genesis, transparent air, ether, in the Void is separated from Chaos, transformed and give rise to the Sky; heavy and turbid air, settling, forms the Earth. Connection, adhesion of the smallest particles of Heaven and Earth is carried out with the help of Yang and Yin, interacting and mutually overcoming forces, as well as the principles of Evil and Good, Cold and Heat, Darkness and Light. The interdependence and interdependence of Yang and Yin were described in the context of the growth of one in the other, passing through the stage of the limit of the predominance of one, then the other and back. The endless process of world movement, active being is built in concentric circles around the conditional center of the universe, associated for a person with a sense of harmony, confidence, peace. Yin (Earth) and Yang (Sky) give rise to the four seasons and all things in the world (both inanimate objects and animate beings), acting as a substance of "vital energy" ("qi" - Chinese, "ki" - Japanese). interaction between yin and Jan produces five main elements that can pass into each other: wood, earth, water, fire and metal. The infinite sky, denoted by an endless line (circle); the earth, due to its limited space, described by the sign of a square, together with a person, whose symbol is a triangle - the phenomena of the mystery of life, passing through a series of metamorphoses ("grasped" by magical signs-symbols "gua") - in the center of their classical image in the form of a circular diagram and placed "monad" of life - complementary Yin and Yang. They are the fundamental principle of all kinds of changes, the bearing structure of the "Great Limit" ("Taizi") - an inescapable source. Yang acts as an "inner" life, an advancing, creative masculine principle; Yin - as the outer world, receding, collapsing - is the female hypostasis of the dual foundation of being. The internal organs of a person and their aggregates (complexes) are divided into Yang and Yin "subsystems". The Yang organs are subject to the influence of states of consciousness and unconscious mental impulses, the health of the body is determined by the Yin organs. Fear, anxiety, excitement (and other Yang influences) can have a destructive effect on the Yin organs. Mutual transformation, complementarity, mutual enrichment, mutual absorption, mutual creation of everything and everything - Yang and Yin - everything that can be understood and comprehended by a person, and what lies beyond his understanding, is the basic law of Tao. The theory of Yin and Yang originated in the middle of the 1st millennium BC.

In the tradition of modern European-type sexual-erotic urban folklore, the symbol of Yin and Yang acquires a meaning that significantly complements the reference behavioral models. Not only indissoluble unity, mutual responsibility and the need for harmony are postulated. loving people, - the high value of the readiness of individuals in love for self-transformations (not necessarily conscious and rationally motivated) is proclaimed in order to achieve compliance with the spontaneous mental and bodily metamorphoses of their loved one initiated by the external environment, as well as truly human sense and the sound of the phenomenon of presence in the "Yin-Yang"-unions of acquired and internalized spiritual traits of each other.

Yin Yang is a symbol of balance

Everything in the world, in our home and in the soul, must be in balance. All the basic truths of Feng Shui practice are based around this golden rule. If the balance has somehow been disturbed and the energies have ceased to correspond to each other, then troubles or problems can begin.

Yin and Yang are two opposite and at the same time complementary flows of energy. These concepts came to us from ancient Eastern Taoist philosophy. Yin Yang energy is believed to permeate the entire universe. It is also very important to understand that Yin and Yang are absolutely opposite types of energy, like white and black, however, they cannot exist one without the other.

Yang energy is considered more active, while Yin is a more passive form of energy. Both types of energy, both Yin and Yang, are contained in everything, but not in equal proportion. In some people or objects, Yin energy predominates, in some Yang.

chinese symbol yin yang

Yin Yang Symbol

The Yin Yang symbol consists of two elements: Yang, which means masculine, and Yin, which symbolizes the feminine. What does the yin yang symbol mean? Combining into a single whole, Yin and Yang form Tao. In turn, Tao is the basic principle by which each person can unite with the Universe, discovering it within himself.

Probably meet a person who has never seen the Chinese symbol Yin Yang, in modern times almost impossible. The Yin Yang balance symbol is a circle divided into two equal parts by a wavy line. One can imagine two drops: one is black, the other is white, in the center of each of the drops there is a point of the opposite color.

The light side of the circle in the Yin Yang symbol is Yang, as mentioned earlier, it symbolizes male energy, the dark side, on the contrary, means Yin, that is, female. Tao exists just at the point of balance of two energies.

According to Feng Shui, these concepts should always be kept in harmony, it is because of this that most attention should be paid to the balance of Yin and Yang in the house. There are times when the balance of Yin Yang in the house is too much disturbed, in which case such places are considered almost uninhabitable.

Dominance of energies

Yin and Yang - day and night

There is an opinion that, depending on the time of day, the value of Yin and Yang change. During the day, Yang dominates most of all, peaking at noon, while Yin dominates at night and rises the most towards midnight.

Depending on what phase the moon is in, the power of Yin and Yang energies is also very different. In the new moon, the female principle of Yin energy has more strength, while at the same time, the male Yang prevails in the full moon. During the full moon, people are more active. It is believed that during this period it is best to do business, and leave creativity and reflection to the new moon.

The strength of the energies of Yin and Yang is also influenced by the time of year: autumn and winter are more Yin, and spring and summer are Yang. But there is an important nuance here: in children who were born in winter or autumn, Yang energy will prevail more. Spring and summer babies, on the contrary, will be more Yin. There is also such a version: at what time of the year will the most of pregnancy, such energy will be more in the baby.

Yin Yang in landscape and construction

According to Feng Shui, our entire planet is divided into just two types: water and mountains. Since ancient times, mountains have been considered the skeleton, the bones of the earth, they do not move anywhere, are considered more static, and Yin energy is most inherent in them. Rivers are the blood of the earth. The water in the rivers is very dynamic, it is constantly moving and belongs to the Yang energy.

In mountainous places where there is little water, the energy gradually subsides, and in places where there are few mountains and a lot of water, on the contrary, the energy becomes too much and, in the end, it becomes uncontrollable. Therefore, in construction it is necessary to choose more harmonious places where both water and mountains are in abundance.

In general, as described above, mountains and rivers have their own meanings of Yin and Yang. But, in relation to each other, the mountains are also divided into the type of Yin and Yang. For example, pointed mountains are Yin, rounded mountains are Yang. The same can be said about water in rivers. high waterfall- Yin, a flowing lake or reservoir - Yang, a fast-flowing river - Yin, a smooth flow of the river - Yang. Yin water has more destructive properties, and Yang water, on the contrary, is creative and beneficial.

When you need to make sure that there are not too many trees, shrubs and thickets around the house, you should also not build a house in close proximity to places that are associated with death: a hospital, prison or cemetery. Yin energy prevails in such places. Living in a house built in such a place, it will be difficult for you to lead an active and energetic life.

This does not mean that if you build a house in a place where Yang energy prevails, you will live better. Not at all! Living in a house that is built in such a place, due to the predominance of Yang energy, will flow much faster than you would like. Therefore, try to choose the most advantageous place for building a house, well, if you don’t have to choose, then you can resort to landscaping and try to independently balance the energy of Yin and Yang in your home.

There are several ways to protect your home from the oppressive effects of Yin energy. To do this, you need to either change the position of the front door, or reduce its size. Because it is through the door that most energy enters the house. Also can be dyed front door in red and enhance the lighting on the porch of the house.

If Yang energy predominates in you, then you need to take the opposite measures. The color of the door should be dark blue, you can also reduce the lighting of the porch and add shadows to the area around the house by planting shrubs and trees. It is desirable to have a reservoir on the site that will soften the Yang energy.

Yin Yang in the home and office

Hieroglyphs Yin and Yang

When examining the environment in your home or office, you should pay considerable attention to any inconsistencies between Yin and Yang. Try to determine as accurately as possible how much this balance is disturbed, and only after that take any steps to improve the situation.

It is believed that if the balance between Yin and Yang is too strongly disturbed in a house or office, then in such an environment it is almost impossible to achieve positive results. When creating balance, the predominance of one or the other energy is allowed, but in a small proportion. It depends on what you will be doing in a particular room.

Work areas such as offices, workshops or Personal Area in your home, should focus on the predominance of Yang. The work area must be well ventilated and all tools or equipment must be kept clean. Small fountains or aquariums contribute well to the working environment. work space should be bright enough, but not too bright. Yin energy must be present, and Yang must prevail, but not suppress Yin. Try to avoid white. If you do not have the opportunity to repaint the walls, you can dilute White color paintings, flowers. It's also a good idea to hang a clock in the office and put on a tape recorder: sounds also help increase Yang energy.

To work at home, you should also draw up your own workplace according to Yang energy. If the work area and the recreation area intersect, you should try to separate these areas.

The bedroom in the house is the place where the predominant energy is the energy of Yin. In the style of this energy, you need to decorate those places in the house where you prefer to relax.

In general, in the house, as in the office, Yang energy should prevail, but in a small amount, such a balance has a good effect on the quality of your life, stimulates you to great achievements and accomplishments. The main thing to remember: Yin Yang is a symbol of balance, and you need to strive for balance, and not for the predominance of one energy over another, especially if you are pursuing goals such as material wealth, peace and love in the family, career advancement.

The concepts of Yin-Yang came to us from China - that is, from the East. After all, both Western and Eastern civilizations from time immemorial have come into contact, complementing each other. But, unfortunately, not everyone understands what the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol means. And, moreover, many do not know how to use the doctrine of the symbol in their lives.

To understand what the yin yang sign can mean, one should turn to the famous "Book of Changes" - the ancient Chinese treatise "I-ching". Cosmogonic meaning, that is, relating to the universe, underlies the signs of Yin and Yang. Understanding the meaning of this ancient symbol- this is an understanding of the main law of unity and struggle of opposite principles.

It was this law that was the key to the basis of dialectical materialism, which was studied by Soviet students not so long ago! This means that it was not discovered at all in our time, but much earlier - somewhere in the 7th century BC by Chinese philosophers.

The ancient Chinese sages interpreted Yin-Yang as a symbol of the unity of the whole, as its opposite parts, interacting with each other, mutually passing into each other, constituting together the common, strongest energy "qi". This inextricable connection of parts determines the development of the energy "qi".

What does the famous Chinese character look like?

What, after all, does the Yin-Yang sign mean? Everyone, considering this symbol, highlights its main features:

1. The components of the symbol, Yin and Yang, are enclosed in a vicious circle, which means the infinity of everything that exists on Earth.
2. Equal division of the circle into two halves, painted in opposite colors (white and black) emphasize the equivalence of Yin and Yang, their opposite.
3. The division of the circle not by a straight line, but by a wavy one, creates, as it were, the penetration of one opposite into another, their mutual influence of one sign on another. After all, increase one sign - the other will no doubt be reduced.
4. The influence of one sign on another is also emphasized by the symmetrical arrangement of dots - "eyes" - of the opposite color, that is, the color of the "enemy". This means that the Yin sign "looks at the world through the eyes" of the Yang sign, and the Yang sign perceives life through the "eyes" of the Yin sign.

That is, the world is created from opposites, which, in combination, can form a single whole. Whether these principles are in unity, friendship and harmony, whether they find consensus in struggle, only their inseparable interaction brings development.

Symbol history

It is assumed that initial value The symbol depicting Yang and Yin goes back to the imitation of a mountain: one side is lit and the other is shaded. But this cannot go on forever: after some period, the sides will change illumination.

For example, there are such "decryptions":

• earth - sky
• top bottom,
• warm - cold
• masculine - feminine,
• good - evil
• good - bad
• harmful - beneficial
• light - dark,
• active - passive

Some of these interpretations have a certain meaning. But most scientists do not recommend attaching ethical significance to the symbol. After all, the symbol means cosmogonic natural opposites, but not moral ones. Therefore, it is not worth talking about the struggle and unity of the good, kind and useful, on the one hand, and the bad, evil and harmful, on the other.

More details about the occurrence of the yin-yang symbol:

Charm with the Chinese symbol Yin-Yang

Amulets and amulets help people, energizing them, protecting them from all evil. One of the strongest amulets is the one in which the Yin-Yang symbol is present. But an important condition for the help of any amulet is this fact: the keeper (in this case, an amulet, talisman or amulet) must be “attuned” to the one who uses it. Otherwise, such a talisman may pose a threat equivalent to the strength of the expected help.

The sign of the Chinese symbol Yin-Yang carries the universal, continuously and eternally passing into each other forces. It also means active principles, in which wood and fire correspond to the Yang sign, and metal and water correspond to the Yin sign. Earth is neutral in this teaching.

Moreover, it should be taken into account that yang sign carries the meaning of light, active, masculine, dominant. BUT yin sign contains the meaning of dark, secret, feminine, calm. However, remembering the unity of opposites, even one, specifically taken, person cannot be ranked in one category or another. In each of us there is both the power of Yin and the power of Yang. And the greater the balance of these forces, the more successful the person.

It is the amulet with the Yin-Yang symbol that helps to balance two opposite energies, suppressing the dominant one and strengthening the weak one.

The amulet gives the wearer energy balance, helps to find a soul mate, achieve success and harmony. After all, the Yin-Yang symbol carries the meaning not only of struggle and unity, incessant movement and active energy, but also of harmony and beauty.

Yin and Yang powers in everyday life

By and large, everywhere there is a struggle and unity of Yin and Yang. Those who do not understand what this statement means should think about it. Here is our food. It consists of warm and cold food, sweet and bitter, protein and vegetable. And any diet that restricts a person, for example, only raw foods or only vegetarian dishes, disturb the balance, close the way for the development of “Qi” energy.

Speaking of Yin and Yang, they note that the meaning of a symbol is in the smooth transition of one sign to another. Therefore, in the dwelling of a person, both directions should smoothly pass one into the other. Otherwise state of mind the individual is subjected to strong stress, which does not at all contribute either to success in life or to the improvement of his health. The exception is institutions - the beginning of Yin or Yang in its pure form dominates there. In a dwelling, which should help to gain energy, relax, enjoy and enjoy harmony, the presence of both principles is necessary.

A popular symbol, depicted on many souvenirs, looks like a circle divided by a winding line into two symmetrically located equal parts. Inside each of them there is also a circle, meaning the eye of some creature, whose contours are limited by the outer semicircle and wave. Painted half of the circle in What does yin-yang mean, the image of which has become fashionable in last years decorate the most unexpected items and apply it on own body like a tattoo? Does this symbol help to resist worldly misfortunes?

Some people take it for some kind of amulet, an amulet, and hang this image in the house, behind the windshield of a car, or wear it around the neck in the form of a medallion, saying: "Yin-yang, save me." No, that's not what it was designed for. ancient China this symbol, it rather represents a certain visual diagram which helps to better understand the essence of the world around us.

Criticized by Marx and accused of turning everything upside down in it, it operates with the concept of "the unity and struggle of opposites." Any magnet and our entire planet has two poles. Living beings are divided into two sexes. The concept of good and evil is also dualistic. There is light and there is darkness. From time to time, with a certain frequency, each side is replaced by the opposite. This is what yin-yang means, a graphic reflection of the unity of opposites, so simple at first glance.

All religions in their theories about the creation of the world rely on the original holistic chaos that precedes the creation of the universe, and scientists in their research are in solidarity with theosophists. As it decreased, it was divided into two halves compensating each other, each of which, reaching a maximum in its development, gave way to the other. Round eye spots symbolize the presence inside each of the opposite sides of the embryo of the coming change, the harbinger of the phase change of the path, called "Tao".

The flow from one half of the circle to the other, as it were, unites these two mutually inalienable parts, creating a whole. Trying to figure out what the word "yin-yang" is, you should divide it into two parts. Black yin symbolizes the feminine, white yang symbolizes the masculine. Yin is intuitive and yang is logical. Yin - and yang - life. North and south, cold and heat, plus and minus - this is what yin-yang means.

The philosophical meaning of this hieroglyph is so deep that it by itself refutes Marx's accusation that it is impossible to turn something that has two heads and two tails wrong, any provision of this scheme can be considered correct.

Universal harmony and balance of natural forces - that's what yin-yang means. This concept is universal in its application, it can be used to describe and state structure, and the system proper nutrition. It has a social, physical, and chemical meaning.

The ancient Chinese treatise "I-ching", also called the "Book of Changes", interprets yin-yang as two sides of one mountain, which is one, but consists of two slopes, alternately illuminated by the sun's rays.

The Yin-Yang symbol is known to almost everyone. You can see his image anywhere: they put it on clothes, use it in decor, wear a Yin-Yang amulet as a decoration and a talisman, give a Yin-Yang amulet for two lovers. The meaning of this ancient Chinese symbol may not even be known to the owners of these things and jewelry. Let's find out today what the Yin-Yang amulet means and what is its significance as a talisman.

A bit of history

Translated from Chinese Yin-Yang means Light and Darkness. Perhaps that is why it is believed that these words originally symbolized the two slopes of the mountain - illuminated and in the shade, light and darkness. After all differently the illuminated sides still remain a single whole - a mountain. Since the process of illumination is not static, but changing depending on the position of the Earth, these opposites - light and darkness - interact and pass one into another.

The Chinese "Book of Changes" interpreted Yin and Yang as a symbol of the unity and struggle of opposites. This is a symbol of a single whole, in which opposite parts interact with each other, as if exchanging their energies in order to make up powerful energy"Qi".

The meaning of the Yin-Yang symbol

The circle in which the components of this symbol are enclosed means the infinity of everything that exists on Earth. This circle is divided by a wavy line into two absolutely equal parts. A wavy, rather than a straight line creates the effect of penetration of one half into the other. Both parts affect each other, because increasing one part would have to reduce the second. At the same time, in each half there is a small fraction of the opposite color - a dot. Summing up, we can say that Yin-Yang is a symbol of the whole World, opposites, which, in combination and in interaction, create a single whole.

Over time and with the development of various philosophical currents, people endowed this symbol with everything big amount values. So, it is believed that Yin-Yang is masculine and feminine, heaven and earth, good and evil. But their meaning remains the same - it is duality, opposites.

Yin-Yang as a talisman

Such a talisman can serve not only as a decoration, but also as a wonderful helper for the person who will wear it. The Yin-Yang talisman will help restore lost harmony and balance, help balance opposite sides character and bring them into balance.

If you have such an amulet or talisman, do not rush to put it on right away. Do you want it to work at full capacity? Then first cleanse your talisman, he is someone else's energy, by holding it in salt or under running water.

After that, charge it with your element. So, watermarks(Pisces, Cancers, Scorpios) need to dip the talisman into the water seven times, signs of fire (Aries, Sagittarius and Leo) need to carry their amulet seven times through the flame of a candle, air signs (Aquarius, Libra, Gemini) - it is worth lighting incense and fumigating the amulet . earth signs(Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) should sprinkle the talisman with earth and leave it like that for a few minutes.

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