Taijitu - Revision history

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	* '''Do not moralize the colors.''' Mapping dark = evil and light = good onto the symbol imports a foreign dualism. Yin-Yang thought knows no absolute evil; it knows imbalance.		* '''Do not moralize the colors.''' Mapping dark = evil and light = good onto the symbol imports a foreign dualism. Yin-Yang thought knows no absolute evil; it knows imbalance.
	* '''Do not freeze the symbol into gender essentialism.''' Yin and yang carry traditional gender correspondences, but the diagram itself teaches that every whole contains both poles. See the cautions at [[Yin]] and [[Yang]].		* '''Do not freeze the symbol into gender essentialism.''' Yin and yang carry traditional gender correspondences, but the diagram itself teaches that every whole contains both poles. See the cautions at [[Yin]] and [[Yang]].

			== Quotes ==
			<blockquote>Yin and yang embody each other in harmony and engender manifold transformations.<ref>Daoti lun quoted in Livia Kohn, ed., ''The Taoist Experience: An Anthology'' (State University of New York, 1993), 22.</ref></blockquote>

	== Further Reading ==		== Further Reading ==

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	=== Lightning Path Contextualization ===		=== Lightning Path Contextualization ===

	Read through the LP framework, the taijitu expresses three commitments the LP shares: reality is one field (the [[Fabric of Consciousness]]), manifesting through two complementary modes ([[Force]] and [[Formation]]), whose interplay — not the victory of either — constitutes the health of any system, from a body to a [[Harmonic Social Structure\|civilization]]. Imbalance, not the "wrong" pole, is what produces dysfunction.		Read through the LP framework, the taijitu expresses three commitments the LP shares: reality is one field (the [[Fabric of Consciousness]]), manifesting through two complementary modes ([[Force]] and [[Formation]]), whose interplay — not the victory of either — constitutes the health of any system, from a body to a [[Harmonic Social Structure\|civilization]]. Imbalance and [[Disjuncture]], not the "wrong" pole, is what produces dysfunction.

	=== Cautions and Distortions ===		=== Cautions and Distortions ===

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	<blockquote class="definition">The '''Taijitu''' (太極圖, "diagram of the Supreme Ultimate," a.k.a. the yin-yang symbol) is the graphic emblem of [[Taiji]]: a circle divided by a curved boundary into interlocking dark ([[Yin]]) and light ([[Yang]]) halves, each containing a dot of the other. The name historically covers a family of diagrams of the Supreme Ultimate — including the layered cosmological chart explained in Zhou Dunyi's eleventh-century ''Taijitu shuo'' — but the circular interlocking form is the universally recognized version and one of the most widely diffused symbols on earth.<ref>Kohn, Livia. ''Introducing Daoism.'' London: Routledge, 2009. "Cosmos, Gods, and Governance."</ref> The closely related Korean ''Taegeuk'' renders the same conception. In LP terms, the taijitu is a visual shorthand for the balanced, mutual interplay of [[Force]] and [[Formation]] within a single field of [[Consciousness]].</blockquote>		<blockquote class="definition">The '''Taijitu''' (太極圖, "diagram of the Supreme Ultimate," a.k.a. the yin-yang symbol) is the graphic emblem of [[Taiji]]: a circle divided by a curved boundary into interlocking dark ([[Yin]]) and light ([[Yang]]) halves, each containing a dot of the other. The name historically covers a family of diagrams of the Supreme Ultimate — including the layered cosmological chart explained in Zhou Dunyi's eleventh-century ''Taijitu shuo'' — but the circular interlocking form is the universally recognized version and one of the most widely diffused symbols on earth.<ref>Kohn, Livia. ''Introducing Daoism.'' London: Routledge, 2009. "Cosmos, Gods, and Governance."</ref> The closely related Korean ''Taegeuk'' renders the same conception. In LP terms, the taijitu is a visual shorthand for the balanced, mutual interplay of [[Force]] and [[Formation]] within a single field of [[Consciousness]].</blockquote>

			[[File:Yin-yang.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|center\|Taijitu — diagram of the [[Taiji\|Supreme Ultimate]]]]

	~~[[File:Yin-yang.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Taijitu — diagram of the [[Taiji\|Supreme Ultimate]]]]~~		== Concept Map ==

	= Concept Map ==

	=== Key Terms ===		=== Key Terms ===

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	~~[[File:Yin-yang.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|[[Taijjitu]] or diagram of the [[Supreme Ultimate]]]]~~		{{navmenu}}
	~~'''Taijutu''' (literally~~ "~~diagram of the supreme ultimate~~"~~) is the word~~/~~symbol for the [[Taiji]] or [[Yin and Yang]].~~		<h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1>

	The ~~Taijutu~~ symbol closely ~~resembles~~ [[~~Taegeuk~~]] ~~which is also~~ a ~~Taoist reference to~~ [[~~Taiji~~]]		<blockquote class="definition">The '''Taijitu''' (太極圖, "diagram of the Supreme Ultimate," a.k.a. the yin-yang symbol) is the graphic emblem of [[Taiji]]: a circle divided by a curved boundary into interlocking dark ([[Yin]]) and light ([[Yang]]) halves, each containing a dot of the other. The name historically covers a family of diagrams of the Supreme Ultimate — including the layered cosmological chart explained in Zhou Dunyi's eleventh-century ''Taijitu shuo'' — but the circular interlocking form is the universally recognized version and one of the most widely diffused symbols on earth.<ref>Kohn, Livia. ''Introducing Daoism.'' London: Routledge, 2009. "Cosmos, Gods, and Governance."</ref> The closely related Korean ''Taegeuk'' renders the same conception. In LP terms, the taijitu is a visual shorthand for the balanced, mutual interplay of [[Force]] and [[Formation]] within a single field of [[Consciousness]].</blockquote>

	~~Taijutu/Taegeuk are functionally and conceptually equivalent to the [[Lightning Path]] conceptualization of [[Force and Formation]].~~

			[[File:Yin-yang.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Taijitu — diagram of the [[Taiji\|Supreme Ultimate]]]]

	=~~=Further Reading~~==		= Concept Map ==

	~~[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu Wikipedia Entry]~~		=== Key Terms ===

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			== Notes ==

			=== What the Diagram Says ===

			* '''One field, two poles.''' The enclosing circle comes first: yin and yang exist ''within'' a unity, never as independent absolutes.
			* '''Movement, not opposition.''' The boundary between the halves is a curve, not a straight line — the relationship is dynamic rotation, each pole waxing as the other wanes (day/night, summer/winter), not a static frontier between enemies.
			* '''Mutual containment.''' Each half carries a dot of the other: at its fullest, yang is already pregnant with yin, and vice versa. Nothing is ever purely one pole.
			* '''Complementarity, not morality.''' The dark half is not evil and the light half is not good. The diagram encodes process — expansion and contraction, assertion and reception — not a moral dualism.

			=== Lightning Path Contextualization ===

			Read through the LP framework, the taijitu expresses three commitments the LP shares: reality is one field (the [[Fabric of Consciousness]]), manifesting through two complementary modes ([[Force]] and [[Formation]]), whose interplay — not the victory of either — constitutes the health of any system, from a body to a [[Harmonic Social Structure\|civilization]]. Imbalance, not the "wrong" pole, is what produces dysfunction.

			=== Cautions and Distortions ===

			* '''Do not moralize the colors.''' Mapping dark = evil and light = good onto the symbol imports a foreign dualism. Yin-Yang thought knows no absolute evil; it knows imbalance.
			* '''Do not freeze the symbol into gender essentialism.''' Yin and yang carry traditional gender correspondences, but the diagram itself teaches that every whole contains both poles. See the cautions at [[Yin]] and [[Yang]].

			== Further Reading ==

			* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu Wikipedia entry]

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'''Taijutu''' (literally "diagram of the supreme ultimate") is the word/symbol for the [[Taiji]] or [[Yin and Yang]].

The Taijutu symbol closely resembles [[Taegeuk]] which is also a Taoist reference to [[Taiji]]

Taijutu/Taegeuk are functionally and conceptually equivalent to the [[Lightning Path]] conceptualization of [[Force and Formation]].

==Further Reading==

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu Wikipedia Entry]

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