Balancing Yin and Yang, New Perspective in Culture

According to Wikipedia, the meaning of Yin and Yang is having a balanced life. Yin and Yang is a living concept that believes that everything has two opposing elements, but it is precisely that which unites the two elements. Against the aforementioned backdrop, a duality (dialectical) thinking embedded in the indigenous Chinese philosophy of Yin Yang is to explain and understand the culture of the Yin and Yang symbols. The Ying and Yang have two colors, namely black and white.  The meaning of the Yin and Yang symbol is that everything cannot stand alone without being accompanied by something opposite to it.

In the Han Dynasty, a man named Dong Zhongshu had made this philosophy into a teaching.  He classified people into two categories, namely Yin and Yang.  Yin were women and children, while Yang were male. Yin which is dark relates to water, earth, month, femininity, and evening while Yang is light and symbolizes as fire, sky, sun, masculinity, and midday.

According to Wikipedia, an ancient Chinese philosophy mentioned Yin and Yang as a concept of dualism. All things have two sides, they have a Yin aspect an a Yang aspect. Nothing is purely good or purely bad, the two qualities oppose each other while at the same time complement each other. Yin and Yang must contain the possibility of opposition and change as well the separation and the interaction of merging. Yin and Yang. They create each other, control each other, and transform into each other which creates the physical world.

Yin and Yang is not a matter of which one is better, but about how to incorporate both. There is power to be found in stillness and discomfort just as there is power to be found in vigorous challenge and disciplined execution. In fact, combining both styles is likely synergistic and better than approaching them alone. 

Life is also best lived as a balance between accepting and acting. Music of Wisdom mentioned too much Yin energy leaves us open to letting life slip us by and being unprepared for the opportunities that present themselves. While it’s helpful to be easy-going and flexible, too much passivity can set people up to be lazy, unmotivated, and incorrectly believing they have minimal control over their own lives. Too much Yang energy can be equally problematic for example passion is important, but if we cannot accept the things outside of our control, we struggle greatly to feel content and safe.

The Yin Yang suggests that ‘human beings, organizations, and cultures, like all other universal phenomena, intrinsically crave variation and harmony for their sheer existence and healthy development. The Yin Yang principle adopts a different perspective about intracultural differences. Instead of viewing differences within a national culture as sheer manifestations of deviation of minority, groups value behavior from the mainstreams. The Yin Yang perspective of culture emphasizes the need to understand the intrinsic paradoxical nature of culture.

Abderrahman Hassi and Giovanna Storti contends how to understand the nature of culture in the age of globalization and the internet is probably the single most important challenge to cross-cultural thinkers. It is important to point out that globalization has not removed nation-states and national cultures

Borderless and wireless worlds have few societies that are immense to foreign concepts, values, and lifestyles. In today's time, the concept of Yin and Yang have a great influence on culture. Cultural learning takes place not just longitudinally from one’s own ancestors within one’s own cultural group but all dimensionally from all possible potential cultural orientations, i.e., from different nations, different regions, different cultures, and different peoples' in an increasingly borderless and wireless workplace, marketplace, and cyberspace. Yin and yang is defined as two interconnected and interdependent principles of the universe. Therefore, they complete each other to create perfect balance. As a result, each culture has the opportunity to acquire its own unique cultural profile overtime by balancing between cultural ecology and cultural learning through selecting values from among globally available value orientations.

 

Sources: Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Meditationmusiclibrary, IntechOpen, Elucidat

Ayu Santyaa // IG: @exceii 

Mail Me: ayusantya27@gmail.com