Thursday, October 18, 2007

Yin & Yang......

The meaning of Yin-Yang



This Simbol(Yin-Yang) represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents "everything", while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called "yin" (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen. They are not completely black or white, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without each other.

While "yin" would be dark, passive, downward, cold, contracting, and weak, "yang" would be bright, active, upward, hot, expanding, and strong. The shape of the yin and yang sections of the symbol, actually gives you a sense of the continual movement of these two energies, yin to yang and yang to yin, causing everything to happen: just as things expand and contract, and temperature changes from hot to cold.

Here is Yin & Yang in our Family! =)

My sister was watching the girls for me on Wednesday, so I could go to Aly's class to work on our Booville art projects. I came home to this....my heart just melts every time I see it. =)

6 comments:

Jess T said...

Oh that is soooo sweet! :)

tiburon said...

Awww that is the sweetest thing ever!

Joani said...

I love it, so sweet.

Katrina said...

so cute!

Jess said...

Awwwwwww, that is the sweetest thing I've seen in a long, long time!

Ida said...

so sweet of a pic very cute.