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should be written as:
They R rootin 4 your team.
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cdt said:
Impressive wise cdt........tha young fella got some wis-dom........
separating is the first step.... So now we have two groups who are "separate" from each other....which sometimes leads to arguing which group is "superior" to the other group.....
sometimes the separation evolves to an argument of who is "better".....and it gets worse........
sometimes violence and hatred is used as a way to show which group is better.........
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but what if "separation" is an illusion.......
to know hot, we must know cold.....
to know "we", we must know "they".....
respect our differences we should, for without those different from ourselves, we cannot know ourselves......
If all there is, is coldness.....how can we know ourself as cold, without hot?
If all there is, is Cavalier Fans, how can we know this without those who are-not Cavalier Fans......
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appreciate our differences we should.....until it leads to thoughts of superiority, and better-than-you stuff.........in this case, the ego has taken too much control, and it must be put in check.......
BTW Im not preachin, ive just read a few books.....:chuckles:
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Who here finds the Yin-Yang interesting.......?
Implications of the Yin-Yang
The yin-yang expresses many important concepts. Perhaps the most important is the relative nature of all things. Darkness, for example, can exist only in relationship to light. Good is defined and shaped by bad, and vice versa. Tall is only tall when there is short. (If everyone were tall, no one would be tall.)
The principle of the relativity of all things tells us that we can't have one pole without the other. Even just acknowledging one pole implies its opposite. To speak of light, we must imply its opposite, the absence of light, or darkness. To speak of being, we must also acknowledge non- being. In Chinese, this truth--that opposites arise automatically and naturally from each other--is called hsiang shen, or "mutually arising." In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu writes,
When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.
So being and non-being create each other,
Difficult and easy produce each other.
Long and short arise from the contrast of one with the other.
High and low depend on each other for definition.
Musical notes become harmonious through their relationship to one another.
Before and after follow each other
Explicit duality, implicit unity
Hsiang shen occurs because what appear to be opposites are really just two poles of the same reality, like the poles of a magnet. They cannot be separated because they are not individual forces, but rather two aspects of one system. This is a difficult concept for the western mind, which has learned that opposites are in conflict with each other: good battles evil, light battles darkness.
Yin-yang tells us that these forces are eternally connected because to elicit one means to elicit the entire system, and thus both poles. They are created by each other and defined by each other: darkness is the relative absence of light, good the relative absence of evil. In his book, Tao: The Watercourse Way, Alan Watts calls this "an explicit duality expressing an implicit unity."
On a more abstract level, this concept suggests that things which we have traditionally viewed as separate may actually be one system. For example, one cannot be an observer (that which observes) without an object (that which is observed), nor can an object exist without an observer. The observer, by the conditions of her observation, defines the object observed, and the object defines the observer by forcing her to take a position from which to observe. (Consider how this applies in quantum physics.)
One might also say the question is shaped as much by the answer sought as the answer is determined by the question. In a similar sense, I do not exist outside the context of my experiences, and my experiences cannot exist without me. We define our experiences and our experiences define us. Each produces and fulfills the other.
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I found that on a website. I find this stuff interesting...
Implications of the Yin-Yang
The yin-yang expresses many important concepts. Perhaps the most important is the relative nature of all things. Darkness, for example, can exist only in relationship to light. Good is defined and shaped by bad, and vice versa. Tall is only tall when there is short. (If everyone were tall, no one would be tall.)
The principle of the relativity of all things tells us that we can't have one pole without the other. Even just acknowledging one pole implies its opposite. To speak of light, we must imply its opposite, the absence of light, or darkness. To speak of being, we must also acknowledge non- being. In Chinese, this truth--that opposites arise automatically and naturally from each other--is called hsiang shen, or "mutually arising." In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu writes,
When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.
So being and non-being create each other,
Difficult and easy produce each other.
Long and short arise from the contrast of one with the other.
High and low depend on each other for definition.
Musical notes become harmonious through their relationship to one another.
Before and after follow each other
Explicit duality, implicit unity
Hsiang shen occurs because what appear to be opposites are really just two poles of the same reality, like the poles of a magnet. They cannot be separated because they are not individual forces, but rather two aspects of one system. This is a difficult concept for the western mind, which has learned that opposites are in conflict with each other: good battles evil, light battles darkness.
Yin-yang tells us that these forces are eternally connected because to elicit one means to elicit the entire system, and thus both poles. They are created by each other and defined by each other: darkness is the relative absence of light, good the relative absence of evil. In his book, Tao: The Watercourse Way, Alan Watts calls this "an explicit duality expressing an implicit unity."
On a more abstract level, this concept suggests that things which we have traditionally viewed as separate may actually be one system. For example, one cannot be an observer (that which observes) without an object (that which is observed), nor can an object exist without an observer. The observer, by the conditions of her observation, defines the object observed, and the object defines the observer by forcing her to take a position from which to observe. (Consider how this applies in quantum physics.)
One might also say the question is shaped as much by the answer sought as the answer is determined by the question. In a similar sense, I do not exist outside the context of my experiences, and my experiences cannot exist without me. We define our experiences and our experiences define us. Each produces and fulfills the other.
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I found that on a website. I find this stuff interesting...
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I think its cool because it shows how everything is inter-connected, and it kinda unites the universe so to speak. A good example is light. Blue light looks different than red light, but they are both light, just at different frequencies. Its also true that everything is made of energy, there are just different forms of energy.
Im no expert, but i find it cool to think about.
Im no expert, but i find it cool to think about.
