what does "yin/yang" mean to you?
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I think that yin/yang refers to the fact that everything balances off.  Naturally, everything is balance.  With pleasure comes pain, with happiness comes sadness.  Good balances with evil.  If you think about it, you can probably think of a dozen times where something good happened, and something bad happen right afterwards.
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confute and concede are diametrically opposite\n\nConcede does not mean to give up, although it implies that... specifically, it means to acknowledge that something is true. For example, if it is obvious that you are going to lose a game of chess, you can concede the loss. It doesn't mean you're giving up -- it means you are acknowledging the truth that you cannot win.\n\nThe sentence is "wrong" or confusing because the two terms are opposite. Confuting to concede makes absolutely no sense.
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I am not quite sure I am understanding the question correctly.  However, I am pasting an excerpt of my Master's Degree Thesis (believe it or not, it related Tai Chi to Orchestral Conducting) that may be of use for you.\n\nHere it is:\n\nThe martial arts in China are truly inseparable from philosophy.  All three of the soft arts have their conceptual origins in the Taoist and Buddhist precepts that were part of the training of monks in the Shaolin temples of China.  In some way or another, they specifically relate all aspects of their skill and techniques to the “Tao.”  In Chinese philosophical thought, the “Tao” literally means “the way” and implies conforming to the laws of nature and living a harmonious lifestyle.  The nature of the philosophy of Chinese martial arts is a combination of both Taoism and Buddhism, what is known as Ch’an Buddhism or Zen, was established by a wandering Buddhist monk from India called Bodhidharma or Da-mo by the Chinese.   (Reid and Croucher, 20)\n\nBriefly stated, in Chinese philosophical thought the t’ai chi symbol (also known as the “Yin and Yang”) indicates the harmony of all things.  It shows that opposite forces (the black and the white–often summed up as positive and negative) are always in a state of flux, moving away from, towards or around one another.  The small circle of black within the white and the circle of white within the black symbolize how even within each of the forces is contained an element of the other.  One t’ai chi symbol, dated on an urn, has been found to be more than three thousand years old.  (Reid and Croucher, 102).\n\nT’ai Chi Ch’uan is a philosophical approach to the body and to movement.  Its name literally means “Supreme Pole Fist.” (Reid and Croucher, 104)   It unites internal awareness, external motion, health and medical knowledge, and martial application with a progressive system of learning that emphasizes mental and physical refinement.  In essence, the refinement sought by the practitioners of T’ai Chi Ch’uan is to “efficiently eliminate the tension of physical and mental instincts, the tension of initiative, the tension produced by contradictions between the manifest consciousness and the subconscious, and the tension brought on by all external stimulus (including attacks by adversaries).”  (Siao et al, xxv)\n\nThe education of a T’ai Chi student contains four important attitudes: non-resistance, accommodation, balance and natural order.  The T’ai Chi student learns through non-resistance to blend with nature in all endeavors, from movement (blending with forces such as gravity and weather) to the internal functions of the body (eating foods that foster the best health in a person).  It is seen that the best results in the efforts of training are the consequence of gently accommodating new needs.  The student comes to understand that balance includes not only the physical sense of balance, but also what is neither too much or too little in training.  In addition to this, balance means what is proper, ethical and even moral in the state of all human affairs.  Natural order for the T’ai Chi student is summed up in the use of a progressive structure to training and can also be the proper sequence in which life moves.\n\nThe key concept to movement in T’ai Chi Ch’uan is in the use of the breath.  Posture, movement and application of movement are all secondary to breathing.  If one cannot control the breath, one cannot become properly aware of the body.  T’ai Chi Ch’uan uses the breath to find relaxation in motion and it provides a system of exercises for the express purpose of coordinating the movement of the limbs to the action of the breath.  This increases the fluidity of an action so that one may move quickly and effectively on command because the body is no longer bound by physical tension.  A correct breathing tempo regulates and coordinates movements so that all motions, linear or circular, ar
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I believe that the energy that we send out (thoughts, words, actions) come back to us in some form.  And if we send out negativity, it will come back.  Ditto for positive things.\n\nI don't believe in the Buddhist or Hindu concept of Karma, which is tied into reincarnation and progressing through stages of rebirth, because my beliefs in the afterlife and reincarnation don't mesh with them.
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Taoism can mean many things to many different people.\n\nAt its simplest, Taoists don't "worship" anything but strive for the balance in the universe.\n\nWhen Buddhism was introduced into China, certain Taoist sects borrowed many of the deities from Buddhism, while others did not.\n\nThis is a complex question much akin to asking What do Christians worship? Christians believe similarly but not all set the same precedence on Christ, the Trinity or the Lord.
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Did you mean to ask "What is the I Ching?" \n\n"I Ching," which translates to mean "Book of Changes," is a classical Chinese philosophical text which serves as a foundation of much Taoist thought.\n\nOr did you mean to ask "How does the I Ching work?" or "How does one use the I Ching?"\n\nTo use the hexagrams of the I Ching as a diviniational system, one would cast lots or flip coins.  One side of the coin or stick would serve as the solid line and the other side as the broken line.  Each of six trials would then stand for each of the six lines that make up the hexagram.   You'd simply match the hexagram you threw to the meaning given for it in the I Ching.\n\nLike all systems of divination, it operates mainly on what Jung called the principle of synchronicity - that there's no real causal relationship between the question you asked and the hexagram you threw, but if it holds meaning for you and helps you interact with your own psyche such that you can more easily reach a decision, then go for it.\n\nOn the other hand, the purely scientific or skeptic viewpoint would say that divination is a pseudo-science supported only by selection bias.
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Or in Japanese it means your whole self!\n総身; そう身 【そうみ】 (n) one's whole body\nSou = 総 【そう】 (n,pref) whole; all; general;\nMi = 身 【み】 (n) body; main part; oneself; sword;
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自由精神\nChinese  zi4 you2 jing1 shen2\nFree spirit\nhttp://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/np/nc_freespirit2.htm
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find the area of the half circle first\n\nthen find the area of the round part of the yin yang that sticks out. that circle find the area of the half circle . and then subtract that area from the big half circle area
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a)  Nope.  100% Neo-pagan, which makes sense since I'm Wiccan.  The next closest matches were New Age and Buddhism.\nb)  I've explored all three.  I was raised Protestant.\nc)  I'm extremely happy with where I am in my life.  I would advise anyone else to look at what they truly believe - not what they have been told to believe, but what they actually think "explains things" when they look at life and how it works.  I was very unhappy until I finally let go of the fear that I would be punished if I said, thanks Jesus, but I'm going over here.  Thus far, things have been much better since I realized I was on the wrong path.  Above all, I think maintaining a balance in life helps breed happiness.
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did you ever see the matrix.\n\nlike the oracle said, \n\n"Oracle: Do you know what that means? \n[points to a banner] \nOracle: It means know thy self. I wanna tell you a little secret, being the one is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you you are in love, you just know it, through and through."\n\npersonally, I knew I was in love because when she was not there, it hurt inside, and all I wanted was to hold her and be with her. and you just cant wait to share your day with her and listen to her and just be there. \n\nso thats my two cents
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do you mean in chinese?\n四海一家:the first two characters is a term which means the whole world, while the third and fourth characters is another term meaning one family. this phrase means to treat everyone in the world as your family.
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Yes I think so. It means sharing with your special love, empathizing with them.\nIt's seeing the beauty in a flower, a poem, a movie, or just life itself.\nIt's not being cynical, being in tune with your feelings.\ni suppose it means different things to different people, which applies to most things.\nIt's all a matter of what you feel, and are moved by the nicer things in life.
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In the past, there was a Ch'an master who had three disciples. One day, two of them got into a heated argument. One of them went to the Master, stated his case and asked if he was right or not. The Master replied: "Yes, you are right." The monk then went back outside and told the other two monks. The other monk who had participated in the argument didn't believe him and went to see the Master himself. After stating his argument, the Master told him that he was correct. Upon hearing this the third monk was confused, thinking it's impossible that both monks are right. Thereupon, he also went to see the Master and asked: "Isn't one right and the other wrong." The Master replied: "Yes, you are right." The three monks then went to see the master to ask how it was possible for all three of them to be right. Had he made a mistake? No, all of them had been right.\nThis story illustrates that it is meaningless to get into any kind of argument. In this world, there is no absolute truth. From the Buddhist point of view everything in the world is impermanent and conditioned and therefore can only be considered from a comparative or relative point of view. When we judge one thing to be better than another we always do so from a relative or comparative standpoint. The Enlightened mind, which sees things as they really are, does not attach to any particular thing as being the absolute truth nor does it reject any particular thing as not being the absolute truth.
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Let me tell you this story from a Chinese Idioms:\n\nMr. Fine (Said of someone who shows approval to everything and tries not to offend anybody for the sake of peace.)\n\nA man named Sima Hui who lived at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was known to have never spoken ill of anybody.  Whatever the others spoke about, he always said that it was fine.  Once he met an acquaintance on the street, the man asked him, "How are you, sir?" He said "fine".  At brokenheartedly told him that his son had died.  He was surprised to hear that Sima Hui said, "That's fine."  After the man had left, Sima's wife rebuked him, saying, "He thought you were a man of virtue and trusted you.  That's why he told you what was on his mind.  Why did you say "It's fine" when he told you that his osn had died?"  After hearing his wife's words, Sima said unhurriedly, "Fine.  What you said is fine."  From then on, Sima Hui become known as Mr. Fine.
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Yin and yang\n\nAs long as there is good ther is bad. That is what we weigh good against. If there was no bad. we would have no reference for a goodness, call it God or whatever you wish. \n\nAs long as there is bitter there is sweet, as long as there is happiness, there is sorrow.\n\nChristians know goodness because there is badness within them that helps them realize the difference. \n\nSatan is simply the evil within a person that they are..or at least, should be battling against and not leave it up to God. \n\nIt is the laws of the universe. There will be no changing it.
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I believe it means "If God wills it," or "In the will of God."\n\nOne could say that anytime, but especially when discussing future plans, hopes, or intentions.\n\nWHY we say it is because we realize that the future, or the outcome of our plans isn't up to us. I believe it is also said  in the hope that God will favor our plans or intentions.\n\nWhat is your opinion?