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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Perhaps your last line is the most important. 
That balance of rich and poor, high and low, positive and negative. Without dark we can't know bright. The foundation of Taoist thought. A balance in all things. "And" rather than "or." 
Stitchawl |
Well, I wouldn't call it a
foundation of Daoist thought. That would be somewhat like saying taijiquan was developed as a meditative exercise since it involves the
taiji or concept of yin-yang polarity. It's something Westerners like to say because they find it novel, and modern Chinese and Japanese have begun to think it so because someone told them, but it's not historically true.