Explanation on Yin Yang philosophy?
I am a senior in high school doing a research paper on stereotypes. I am trying to prove why negative thoughts cannot exist without positive thoughts and vice versa?
~~~ I can't help but chuckle when I hear people talking about 'negative' this and 'positive' that... Most often (immaturely) using personal comfort as the 'dividing line'! How callow and superficial/egotistical!
Care to define a "negative thought"? "Positive thought"?
How can anyone understand what you are talking about when speaking in such subjective and ambiguous terminology? First you must define your terms!
I am attempting to use yin yang philosophy to prove it. I understand the basics that one cannot exist without the other because in actuality they are one not two, they co exist. But what is the exact reasoning of why good cannot exist without evil?
~~~ They are two opposite Perspectives of the same Reality (a 'thought' in this case)!
'Good' and 'evil' exist as 'thought'.
Everything is perceived uniquely, every moment of existence!
In order to define one, the other must be employed in the definition. You cannot define 'good' without incorporating 'evil' in the definition. If one vanishes from the definition/existence, so does the other!
Every complete definition of anything must include the complete context! That means the entire Universe!!! That includes all apparent conflicts and contradictions and opposites!
The First Law of Soul Dynamics;
"For every Perspective, there is an equal and opposite Perspective!"
(What one might think as as 'positive', another will think as 'negative'!)
"The complete Universe (Reality/Truth/God/'Self!'/Tao/Brahman... or any feature herein...) can be defined/described as the synchronous sum-total of all Perspectives!" - Book of Fudd
ALL INCLUSIVE!!!
Not the common sense answer of because without evil you would not know good. I want to know the yin yang philosophy behind it?
~~~ That is the philosophy!
The simple matter is the uncommon commonsense 'answer' because it is TRUE!
Context is everything!!!
Without dark, you cannot know light, and on and on ad-infinitum!
There is no particular 'yin/yang philosophy', it is more a 'codification' of the qualities of 'opposites'.
All such subject/object distinctions are perceived as 'thought'!
Sans 'thought', in a Zen state of awareness, for instance, all that duality pos/neg stuff vanishes into 'that which is'!
But how does negativity keep positivity in balance?
~~~ It doesn't! They are mutually arising features of the same 'thought'! Synchronously arising, like everything else in existence, every moment!