yin yang with history lesson by sapient-primum
The white represents clarity and extraversion in nature, the black represents mystery and introversion in nature. According to the Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu tells us to know the yang but keep to the yin. (Check comments)
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DoodleBro 16th Oct 2022
hey sapient you had a little error which was the lack of the tag "flammable", i fixed it for you (totally not in the midst of watching this save burn multiple times) -
Kyrkovich-1tron 16th Oct 2022
nice cts -
sapient-primum 16th Oct 2022
(Just an enthusiast of Chinese history, please send corrections if I got anything wrong) -
sapient-primum 16th Oct 20222) The Chinese Character in the top-right means Tao which translates to 'road' or 'way'. The Tao is the way things are, the way nature... does. According to the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching: "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao, the name that can be spoken is not the eternal name. The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of myriad things.."
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sapient-primum 16th Oct 20221) My drawing of the bagua are bad, but continuing with my history lesson. The lines surrounding the yin-yang are called bagua (eight trigrams in English) they represent more aspects of nature. The broken lines are yin, and unbroken lines are yang. The gua at the top represents Heaven, and the gua at the bottom represents Earth. According to Taoist literature, the inventor/observer of the bagua was Fu Xi roughly 4,000 years ago.
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Apples21 16th Oct 2022
walter -
nitroo 16th Oct 2022
holy moly fp speedrun -
Velocity2 16th Oct 2022
+1 cts