> Squonk: One may wish to write poetry if one wishes to be rather less
classical about
> this? I do not feel driving oneself into deeper classical territory will
be helpful
> at this stage as we are surrounded by quite enough if that as it is.
Gary's response: Okay, I'll stop with the heavy classical. How about a
Romantic question? If Quality is the Tao, then we might ask what is Yin and
what is Yang? Is Romantic Q the Yin? Is Classical Q the Yang? Is Dynamic
Q the Yang? Is Static Q the Yin?
Yin is associated with 'The Receptive' in the I Ching. Yang is associated
with 'The Creative' in the I Ching. I will quote from 'The Great Treatiise'
, the 'Ta Chuan', the first commentary on the I Ching. The following is
from the first chapter:
"The greatest forces are Creative and Receptive. Listen: The process of
Creative completes things through Yang. The process of Receptive completes
things through Yin. Creative knows the great beginnings. Receptive makes
and completes all things. Creative knows through the easy. Receptive can do
things through the simple. What is easy, is easy to know; what is simple is
easy to follow....By means of the easy and the simple we grasp the laws of
the whole world. When the lasw of the whole world are grasped, therein lies
perfection."
How is that for poetry? That should appeal to your Romantic Soul/Mind.
Gary Jaron, a simple student of the Tao.
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