The principal proponent of the theory was the cosmologist Zou Yan (or Tsou Yen) who believed that life went through five phases ( wuxing) – fire, water, metal, wood, earth – which continuously interchanged according to the principle of Yin and Yang. The concept of Yin and Yang became popular with the work of the Chinese school of Yinyang which studied philosophy and cosmology in the 3rd century BCE. Yin and Yang ORIGIN around 2,300 years ago? refĬonfucianism’s Tiān (Shangdi god 4,000 years old): Supernaturalism, Pantheism or Theism? The Tao is intrinsically related to the concepts yin and yang ( pinyin: yīnyáng), where every action creates counter-actions as unavoidable movements within manifestations of the Tao, and proper practice variously involves accepting, conforming to, or working with these natural developments. In Confucianism and religious forms of Taoism, these are often explicitly moral/ethical arguments about proper behavior, while Buddhism and more philosophical forms of Taoism usually refer to the natural and mercurial outcomes of action (comparable to karma). Important in this respect is the Taoist concept of De (德 virtue). This involves meditative and moral practices. Stoicism) in order to achieve ‘effortless action’ ( Wu wei). In Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism, the object of spiritual practice is to ‘become one with the Tao’ (Tao Te Ching) or to harmonise one’s will with Nature (cf. Liu Da asserts that the Tao is properly understood as an experiential and evolving concept, and that there are not only cultural and religious differences in the interpretation of the Tao, but personal differences that reflect the character of individual practitioners. The Tao was shared with Confucianism, Chán, and Zen Buddhism and more broadly throughout East Asian philosophy and religion in general. The original use of the term was as a form of praxis rather than theory – a term used as a convention to refer to something that otherwise cannot be discussed in words – and early writings such as the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching make pains to distinguish between conceptions of the Tao (sometimes referred to as “named Tao”) and the Tao itself (the “unnamed Tao”), which cannot be expressed or understood in language. Some scholars make sharp distinctions between moral or ethical usage of the word “Tao” that is prominent in Confucianism and religious Taoism and the more metaphysical usage of the term used in philosophical Taoism and most forms of Mahayana Buddhism others maintain that these are not separate usages or meanings, seeing them as mutually inclusive and compatible approaches to defining the principle. Whereas the female (yin) is symbolized as night or the moon embodying everything negative, evil and lowly. Chinese literature beginning with the classic cannon Yijing (book of Changes) we see sexism as we find the male (yang) symbolized as day or the sun embodying everything good and positive, and this status is identified with heaven. But the white is male and the black is female. Some think the yin and yang are just good and bad.
The Tao sees the world as male (yang) and female (yin) which is very sexist. Yin and Yang is sexist with an ORIGIN around 2,300 years ago?
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