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Jumping in on this hot debate.....:) Yin vs. Yang Approach to TaoFrom: bagua
Subject: General
Date/Time 2009-07-25 11:31:13
Remote IP: 76.174.127.111
MessageHello Michael:
"So my conclusion is that Bagua and Singing Ocean are talking past one another, not to each other. Each is focusing on an aspect of the truth of Tao that is important to them. But the place where they intersect comes in the issue of what scholar Chad Hansen calls the moral imperative of the Tao: what is it that Tao is offering to humans that allows them to live a higher spiritual (more virtuous, de) life?
This may be an argument about using yin (receptive) vs. yang (creative) methods. Do I just allow Tao to enter me, and change me, or do I reach out to the elements of Tao that I know will accelerate or deepen my Tao process?"
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There is always yang within yin and yin within yang, they are never separate.
Yang contains receptiveness, you are doing yang activities to become more receptive.
I don't believe its this or that, you are doing a yang or yin practice, there are numerous methods to fit the timing of a wide range of people and their unique existing condition.
Within so called Yin practices there is Yang or activities.
All this does not address the fundamental topic, are we the tao now, do we have everything we need now or are we creating something that does not exist now?
As humans how can we align to allow the natural unfolding of our life, this is a key thing, how can we allow the natural expression of our life, our destiny? Its not about a specific goal or experience to be attained, but aligning to the tao and experiencing life without the stagnations and distortions each of us has, its seems Wu Wei is the way to obtain this from a taoist view.
regards,
bg
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