I look at the ying-yang and notice how black and white share the circle but are separated. This inspires the idea of day and night, light and dark, good and bad. If you are to have one you must have the other. I also notice the small spot of white in the black and the small spot of black in the white. To me this says that you cannot have either one wholly. You must have a little bit of darkness in your light or a little bit of light in your darkness. Can we ever truly be one or the other, or must we always have at least a piece of both? Is that good or is that bad? What does this symbol mean to you?
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The ying-yang symbol to me does not portray good vs evil or even light and dark. It is a symbol of one comprised of two. What this means is that there are two individual things that unite to be one. They still maintain a sense of independence, yet are eternally connected to one another.
"To me this says that you cannot have either one wholly. You must have a little bit of darkness in your light or a little bit of light in your darkness."
I agree with this analogy. An example is how beauty has its imperfections or how the night sky has moon and stars.
A furter concept this represents it that to get rid of one, we get rid of the other as well. What we may see as good will ahve to be sacrificed to eliminate its negative opposite.
Example: If we do not any more poor people, there cannot be any more rich people. Without even a little bit of the other, each class has nothing to compare it self to, and the class does not exist. Thus class war will not end until distribution of wealth is relatively equal.
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