Translation of the Book The spirit of Chinese Philosophy With an Analytic Introduction

Dao is the cause of all creatures; superior to everything but at the same time in all of them.The most immediate effect of this emergence is the emergence of the universe.In the first place, it is empty and non-existent; it is unformed and unnamed. After passing through the initial stage and disorderly erosion into two formless and equal forces, one was light and the other was heavy and dark.  Yin and Yang are the very beginning and the creative couple who complement each other in the same contradiction.Through them, the heavens, the earth, the sun and the moon, and all the distinctions that created this universe are created.The Yin-Yang symbol in West Asian thinking is two opposite principles or forces that complement each other, which make all aspects and phenomena of the universe.The yin is thought to be a land, dark, passive, and absorbent, and is represented in paired numbers, valleys, and rivers, and is represented by a symbol of tiger, orange and a broken line. Ying is thought to be sky, clear, active, penetrating, and in individual numbers and mountains, and is represented by a dragon symbol, azure color and a continuous line.Both of them are of the highest order (Tai_Chi), and they appear in the equilibrium state as bright and dark halves of a circle.A circle consisting of two black and white sections, a white point in the black section and a black dot in the white section, indicating an element of the opposite section that lies in the other.This symbol belongs to the Daoist philosophy.According to this theory, human beings are influenced by Yin and Yang as part of the natural world. From this perspective, Yin and Yang’s equilibrium in the earth and in the sky affects yin and yang sky and earth.