"Being - Nothingness give birth to one another;
Difficult - Easy complete one another;
Long - Short are formed of one another;
High - Low reverse one another;
Sound - Voices harmonize with one another;
Before - After follow one another. "
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The TAO is not T, A, O. The archaic ideogram, is still alive today in China, in Japan, in Korea, in Vietnam (the names of all these countries derive from the ideograms: Japan: sun roots - Korea: high beauty - Vietnam: southern extreme, formerly Annam: peace in the south). The archaic ideogram TAO shown opposite is composed of several ideograms: |
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The signs on the left and on the right mean a step to the left, a step to the right and together form as well the ideogram "it works" in Chinese. |
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In the middle of the ideogram TAO, one finds an ideogram meaning head, first, leader. It includes two parts. At the top WATER leaving the cranium at birth. Water is vital. At the beginning there was water. Form of the WATER ideogram in a primitive pattern. Below the ideogram WATER another ideogram meaning "all comes from the origin" symbolized by a FACE, which has an opening at the top on the right meaning input-spirit and output-matter. In the middle a nose, the center of the origin, the mountain of the face, inspiration and expiration. Under the nose a mouth, to swallow and to spit, to eat and to speak. In China one says: disease enters through the mouth (bad nutrition) and danger comes out of the mouth (unjust words, lies). |
Together: thought which proceeds and also to make thought to proceed.
"I did not allow myself to make great speeches nor erudite philosophies. Awkward is undoubtedly my expression. But, here, I do not propose, nor develop an academic theory. What is essential for me, is solutions, achievements. And, according to taoist thought, it appears to me that the principle of coexistence of opposites, can be at the origin of a beneficial outcome, in the creation of villages known as "T'ai Kiist", as the image of this symbol
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meaning that light, the luminous one, the day, the "Yang" cannot exist without this small black, obscure, night point which is the "Yin", and on this side the black, the obscure one, the night one, "Yin" can only exist with this small white point which is luminous, "the Yang". |
"Yin-Yang are not two principles, but the coexistence of opposites, the inseparable one."