The world is made up of the polarity of yin and yang.  Yin and yang is a manifested everywhere in our universe.   Yin is the soft, the subtle, the feminine, the restful principle whereas yang is the hard active masculine principle.   Yin and yang are part of the same whole but opposite polarities.   Yin and yang is manifested in the universe in many ways:  we have light and darkness, day and night.  We have birth and death.  We have male and female.  We have bliss and we have pain.   We have happiness and we have sadness.  We have love and we have hate.  We have peace and we have chaos, we have positive and negative. 

The Taoists hold true to their heart an axiom- that is,  everything will eventually lead to its opposite.  Something that is yang will eventually become yin and something that is yin will eventually become yang. 

Empires will rise and then empires will fall to only be replaced by another empire that will rise and then eventually fall.   Chaos will end with peace and peace will lead to chaos.  Every biological system will reach a maxim of chaos before a higher more harmonious order will develop.  A baby is born grows to maturity and then declines to death only to be reborn again.   For some who are bipolar they may experience highs of joy and bliss to be followed by sadness and depression.    A flower grows and its petals open only to wither and loss its petals, but its seeds start this cycle again.  Yin begets yang and yang begets yin.  Life begets death and death begets life.  Chaos begets peace and peace begets chaos.  Ying and yang is a never ending cycle.

Ying and yang are different polarities of the same thing.  Love and hate are different polarities of the same thing.  Life and death are different polarities of the same thing.  Light and darkness are different polarities of the same thing.   Chaos and peace are different polarities of the same thing.  If we didn’t have hate how would we know what love is?  If we didn’t have death we wouldn’t treasure life.  And if there were no darkness how would you recognize the light.  If you didn’t know chaos you wouldn’t appreciate peace.  These are the boundaries that provide distinction, balance and appreciation in life.  These are the polarities created by our benevolent conscious universe to enhance our experience and to provide structure and boundaries to enjoy the Universe’s creation and our own creations on this planet. 

Everything in the Universe is made of energy.  Energy is vibration and sound.  Sound is waves.  Everything acts like a wave in the universe meandering between the polarities and the amplitudes of the wave.  Some waves are more extreme than others.   Some waves are softer and some more frequent. Never the less the principle of yin and yang is manifested in everything.  And that which is yin will eventually become yang and that which is yang will eventually become yin because everything eventually leads to its opposite just like a meandering wave. 

-Jens