The word Yin and Yang are the word of Taoism. Taoism is more a philophy than a religion. There is a big difference between a philosophy and a religion.

The philosophy is for questing the absolute truth and never ask us or oblige us to do some doctorine based on some concepts. So to speak, a philosopher suspect and ask questions to even a god who create universe if he exists. And a philosopher thinks about and suspect for the base of concept itself.

To the contrary,the religion is the concept based on another concept. And the people try to act or accomplish those doctorine based on a concept. So, in a religion, we should never ask or suspect about that concept or our god. So to speak, the base concept has absolute power which nobody can deny in a religion.

In my opinion, the general occidental concept about Yin and Yang looks like a concept of a religion. Because it is often expressed as The balance or the harmony…etc. Then I think ‘What is that Balance for? What is that harmony for?’ And it looks like they think keeping the balance is important for the peace or something. In this case, the pease meaning the opposite of death. So,they think  keeping the balance for Yin and Yang bring good life. You can see a concept saying ‘ Life is good, Dead is bad’.

But as i said before, the taoism is a philosophy and there is no such a concept like Good and bad. And the life or the exisitance dont have more value than the death or non-existance. So, then what is the meaning of Yin and Yang in Taoism?

The Yin and Yang concept is the science tool to persue the philosophy for Taoists.For understanding the mechanism of the existance, they created this concept.

And they devided all of  the matters of this universe with the character of Yin and Yang. So you will find this concept in everything. For example, this computer which i am typing is moved with Ying and Yang structure. It is 0 and 1. The music i listen is constructed with Yin and yang. Its the term with sound and another term of mute. The season has Ying and Yang.Winter to Summer. Before reaching summer, we have hot day and cool day. And the crucial Ying and Yang of this universe - Existing and Non-existing.

The interesting matter is, the existance of universe is constructed by the altervative movement of unbalanced Ying and Yang. And needless to say, when these two matters has their balance each other, these are no movement at all and………………………………………..The universe quit the existance!!

And Taoists and Buhdist call the total balanced pease the non-existing.

Hahahahaha! Do you still want the balance and pease  in Ying and Yang?