In the West we say that opposites attract; but in the East they say opposites are the same thing: East is West, and West is East, and never the twain shall part. Sadly, that doesn't have the sense of rhyme that Kipling's similar but completely opposite line has. The people from the east don't seem to be interested in rhyme, and as for harmony in their music! Not a clue. Their music is atrocious. We've developed the harmony of a full classical orchestra while their music is comparable to a child banging a drum while another blows into a toy bugle.
The West seemingly is far more advanced than the East. We developed fantastic machines, our technology has allowed us to have instant communication around the world, we put men on the moon, and when all is said and done, it was us that dominated them while all they did was sit around banging drums and blowing toy bugles.
We've developed a very arrogant attitude toward the East.
In China they have the ying and the yang. The Ying is feminine and the yang is masculine. The Chinese symbol for ying and yang is a circle. The inside of the circle is separated by a wavy line. The part of the inside of the circle on one side of the wavy line is black, the other half is white. A block dot is in the white half and white dot is in the black half. It's their symbol of opposites and how opposites are connected. The concept of ying and yang dominates Chinese thought like the concept of oneness, a never ending life, and illusion dominates Indian thought. They don't look like us, act like us, and they don't think like us either, it's sort of like men and women.
The ying energy is called feminine in that its receptive, inclined inward, and is spiritually inclined. The yang energy is masculine, inclined outward, and inclined toward self will or will power. The ying and yang energies are a continuous cyclic movement. "The yang returns cyclically to its beginning, the yin attains its maximum and gives place to the yang." Kuei Ku Tzu, fourth century B.C.
The West is yang, the East is yin. We in the west have been playing the masculine role in the dance of energies, and the East have played the feminine role. We produced things on the outer realm while they explored things more spiritual or more inner. When modern science via quantum physics went inward it found a drastic change in our traditional yang energy point of view, and what we found really shocked us; because what we found coincided almost exactly with that of eastern spirituality. When we went inner instead of outer we found that at the core level of the universe, everything is connected. There is simply no other way to explain what is happening in the sub-atomic world. The findings of Quantum Physics was almost bitterly opposed by Einstein. He believed completely in the Newtonian classical physics. He wanted to see the world as a big machine with separate but harmonious parts. Even on his death bed, on the last day of his life, he was still scribbling formula's trying to disprove quantum physics. He wanted to find certainty and predictablity. He was correct in his theories of relativity, and he was sure that he could be right again. "God doesn't throw dice." He said.
Meanwhile the scientific world ignored him while still being amazed at the fact that if God wasn't throwing dice then he was certainly putting things in the realm of chance; or to be more precise, it all depends on how one looks at it. They were finding out that an observer was part of the thing being observed. Some scientists are now saying that the word observer should be changed to participant.
What can one make of it all?
I'm on my fifth pint of Guinness, so my observing or participating factor should be judged as such. However, it seems to me that we are coming to a point in time where ying is meeting yang; and where yang changes to ying, like. Our scientific community is going inward while India and China are going outward.
The world is changing, like it always does, but are we in the west ready to accept the Chinese reality of ying and yang? Are we ready to accept the dancing energy of the Indian aspect of Shiva? Are we ready to take a bow, and then accept with honor, and humility, our transformation into the feminine aspect of yin?
Yer right. Like hell we are. The East can accept it as a cyclical part of life. That's the way they are, they are yin, but we are yang, and we'll fight to the death. We will not surrender to drum banging bugle blowing bastards that live in poverty.
However, I sense that the time is coming when we might have to bow to the likes of those that we once thought to be inferior beings. Science is saying they are as one with us, and they are thousands of years ahead of us when it comes to spirituality. And just like man and wife, one simply has to bend and admit the difference, for harmonies sake, and for the sake of love...
Ha! Yer right. We are on the verge of one hell of a family fight.
The West seemingly is far more advanced than the East. We developed fantastic machines, our technology has allowed us to have instant communication around the world, we put men on the moon, and when all is said and done, it was us that dominated them while all they did was sit around banging drums and blowing toy bugles.
We've developed a very arrogant attitude toward the East.
In China they have the ying and the yang. The Ying is feminine and the yang is masculine. The Chinese symbol for ying and yang is a circle. The inside of the circle is separated by a wavy line. The part of the inside of the circle on one side of the wavy line is black, the other half is white. A block dot is in the white half and white dot is in the black half. It's their symbol of opposites and how opposites are connected. The concept of ying and yang dominates Chinese thought like the concept of oneness, a never ending life, and illusion dominates Indian thought. They don't look like us, act like us, and they don't think like us either, it's sort of like men and women.
The ying energy is called feminine in that its receptive, inclined inward, and is spiritually inclined. The yang energy is masculine, inclined outward, and inclined toward self will or will power. The ying and yang energies are a continuous cyclic movement. "The yang returns cyclically to its beginning, the yin attains its maximum and gives place to the yang." Kuei Ku Tzu, fourth century B.C.
The West is yang, the East is yin. We in the west have been playing the masculine role in the dance of energies, and the East have played the feminine role. We produced things on the outer realm while they explored things more spiritual or more inner. When modern science via quantum physics went inward it found a drastic change in our traditional yang energy point of view, and what we found really shocked us; because what we found coincided almost exactly with that of eastern spirituality. When we went inner instead of outer we found that at the core level of the universe, everything is connected. There is simply no other way to explain what is happening in the sub-atomic world. The findings of Quantum Physics was almost bitterly opposed by Einstein. He believed completely in the Newtonian classical physics. He wanted to see the world as a big machine with separate but harmonious parts. Even on his death bed, on the last day of his life, he was still scribbling formula's trying to disprove quantum physics. He wanted to find certainty and predictablity. He was correct in his theories of relativity, and he was sure that he could be right again. "God doesn't throw dice." He said.
Meanwhile the scientific world ignored him while still being amazed at the fact that if God wasn't throwing dice then he was certainly putting things in the realm of chance; or to be more precise, it all depends on how one looks at it. They were finding out that an observer was part of the thing being observed. Some scientists are now saying that the word observer should be changed to participant.
What can one make of it all?
I'm on my fifth pint of Guinness, so my observing or participating factor should be judged as such. However, it seems to me that we are coming to a point in time where ying is meeting yang; and where yang changes to ying, like. Our scientific community is going inward while India and China are going outward.
The world is changing, like it always does, but are we in the west ready to accept the Chinese reality of ying and yang? Are we ready to accept the dancing energy of the Indian aspect of Shiva? Are we ready to take a bow, and then accept with honor, and humility, our transformation into the feminine aspect of yin?
Yer right. Like hell we are. The East can accept it as a cyclical part of life. That's the way they are, they are yin, but we are yang, and we'll fight to the death. We will not surrender to drum banging bugle blowing bastards that live in poverty.
However, I sense that the time is coming when we might have to bow to the likes of those that we once thought to be inferior beings. Science is saying they are as one with us, and they are thousands of years ahead of us when it comes to spirituality. And just like man and wife, one simply has to bend and admit the difference, for harmonies sake, and for the sake of love...
Ha! Yer right. We are on the verge of one hell of a family fight.
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