(08-09-2010, 09:19 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Polarity in the spirit complex has to do with light and dark more than it does with male and female. It's all about radiance vs absorption, after all.
I'm re-joining this discussion late, so please excuse me if my comments have already been addressed.
I'll refrain from saying too much until I've read the rest of the thread, but for now just wanted to interject that I think of male/female in relation to each other, not as gender. Something might be 'male' (active) in relation to something, but female (receptive) in relation to something else.
Hence, it doesn't necessarily have a particular polarity or even attribute, but only in terms of its relationship to others.
(08-10-2010, 06:42 AM)unity100 Wrote: then again, maybe light and dark themselves have to do with male and female
In Taoism, they indeed do correspond.
(08-18-2010, 12:47 PM)unity100 Wrote: mover and moved would be pointless without each other.
leave that aside, it is questionable that one can even exist without the other.
it is probable that all the polarities are the parts of a single whole that balances into a total equilibrium (at point infinity, when there is perfect balance and there is stillness). perfect equilibrium means that one can never be more powerful than the other in the ultimate end. their effects should be equal.
however, it is possible that, in various manifestations, one part may be more active, and dominant than the other. this may reflect in mind, body, spirit situations and their internal and extrenal (with each other) relationships.
As depicted by the Tao (Yin/Yang equal, flowing one into the other, constantly moving).