I CHING and TAO:
Yin...is not dark, cold, low. These are the results
that manifest because of its changing action
she is not dark, it is a movement of changing darkness.
it is not cold but a tendency towards coldness.
it is neither interior nor at rest but rather turning inward
and slowing down.
Yang is not light...but is becoming light;
it is not hot but becoming hot,
not external or active but becoming active
the changing should be verbs:
becoming...rather than nouns
... dynamic changing activity
Yin and Yang are the concerted, counterforce movements of life
and comprise the dynamics that also unite them!
(fore-going thoughts gleaned from
Understanding the I Ching by Cyrille Javary 1989)
On change from Lao Tzu (570-490 BC) Zhou Dynasty, China
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
On change from Heraclitus 535 --475 BC Greece
"Nothing endures but change".
Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher of Ephesus, Greece
known for his doctrine of... change being central to the universe,
and for establishing the term LOGOS...Greek meaning for the WORD
...in Western philosophy designating both the source
and fundamental order of the Cosmos. and could also be taken as TAO
Heraclitus by Johannes Moreelse. The image depicts him as "the weeping philosopher"
wringing his hands over the world and "the obscure" dressed in dark clothing,
both traditional motifs.
On Change from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Germany
"We must always change, renew,
rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden."
...change endures...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist,
biologist, empirical physicist
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On change and 'going with the flow' from Tom Upton
"If you just go with the flow,
no matter what weird things happen along the way,
you always end up exactly where you belong.”
― Tom Upton born in Chicago, USA, living writer
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