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			=== Key Terms ===

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			=== Daoism Key Terms ===

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	* '''Not gender destiny.''' The yin–female correspondence is a period cosmological mapping, historically used to naturalize gender hierarchy. The tradition's own logic — every whole contains both poles — contradicts that use: every [[Physical Unit]] requires receptivity and formation as much as assertion and force, regardless of gender.		* '''Not gender destiny.''' The yin–female correspondence is a period cosmological mapping, historically used to naturalize gender hierarchy. The tradition's own logic — every whole contains both poles — contradicts that use: every [[Physical Unit]] requires receptivity and formation as much as assertion and force, regardless of gender.
	* '''Not a fixed essence.''' Yin is relational and situational. The same thing is yin in one relation and yang in another; nothing is yin in itself.		* '''Not a fixed essence.''' Yin is relational and situational. The same thing is yin in one relation and yang in another; nothing is yin in itself.


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	<blockquote class="definition">'''Yin''' is an ~~Eastern term syncretic with~~ the LP term [[Formation]]~~. Yang refers to~~ the ~~forceful~~, ~~energetic~~ [[~~Facet of~~ Consciousness]].		<blockquote class="definition">'''Yin''' (陰) is the receptive, yielding, contracting, cooling, and formative pole of the Chinese cosmological pair [[Yin\|yin]]–[[Yang\|yang]]: the shaded side of the hill, the valley, the moon, water, winter, night. Yin is never a substance and never an independent entity — a thing is yin only in relation to something more yang than itself, and each pole at its extreme transforms into the other. In LP terms, yin is a syncretic term for [[Formation]]: the receptive, shaping, structuring facet of [[Consciousness]] through which force takes form.</blockquote>
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	==~~Syncretic Terms~~==		== Concept Map ==

	~~[[Formation]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Formation]]}}~~		=== Syncretic Terms ===

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	~~[[Yin]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related~~ LP ~~term::Yin]]}}~~		=== Related LP Terms ===

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	~~[[Yin]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Yin]]}}~~		=== Related Terms ===

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			== Notes ==

			=== The Pair ===

			Yin cannot be defined apart from yang, any more than the shaded side of a hill can exist without the sunlit side. The pair names complementary phases of one process: yang initiates, yin completes; yang expands, yin consolidates; yang acts, yin receives and gives form. In the ''[[Yijing]]'' the two are figured as the broken (yin) and unbroken (yang) lines from which the trigrams and hexagrams are built, and in the [[Taijitu]] their interlocking, mutually containing form is made visible: at the heart of fullest yang lies the seed of yin, and at the heart of fullest yin the seed of yang.<ref>Kohn, Livia. ''Introducing Daoism.'' London: Routledge, 2009. "Cosmos, Gods, and Governance."</ref>

			Traditional correspondence sets — moon/sun, earth/heaven, water/fire, night/day, winter/summer, rest/movement, female/male — extend the pair across nature, body, society, and calendar, making yin-yang the basic grammar of Chinese cosmology, medicine, and alchemy.<ref>Kohn, ''Introducing Daoism,'' "Cosmos, Gods, and Governance."</ref>

			=== Lightning Path Contextualization ===

			Yin maps onto [[Formation]], yang onto [[Force]]: the two facets through which [[Consciousness]] manifests and builds. The LP shares with yin-yang thought the crucial structural insight that health — of a body, a person, or a society — is a matter of ''balance and circulation'' between the two modes, never the victory of one over the other. The Daoist valuation of the soft, the low, and the receptive (the water and the valley of the ''[[Dao De Jing]]'') is a corrective emphasis within a system that ultimately honors both poles.

			=== Cautions and Distortions ===

			* '''Not good versus evil.''' Yin is not darkness in the moral sense. Yin-yang thought knows no absolute evil; it knows imbalance. Moralizing the pair imports a dualism the tradition does not contain.
			* '''Not gender destiny.''' The yin–female correspondence is a period cosmological mapping, historically used to naturalize gender hierarchy. The tradition's own logic — every whole contains both poles — contradicts that use: every [[Physical Unit]] requires receptivity and formation as much as assertion and force, regardless of gender.
			* '''Not a fixed essence.''' Yin is relational and situational. The same thing is yin in one relation and yang in another; nothing is yin in itself.

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			<blockquote class="definition">'''Yin''' is an Eastern term syncretic with the LP term [[Formation]]. Yang refers to the forceful, energetic [[Facet of Consciousness]].
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			==Syncretic Terms==

	'''Yin''' is creation energy. Yin comprises one half of an energetic circuit that drives creation in this universe. Yin energy is the formative half of the cosmic creation equation. Yin receives, and shapes, the powerful energetic thump of yang energy.		[[Formation]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Formation]]}}

	The human process of sexual procreation, from the genetic sex act itself, to conception, to the formation and birth of a new creation, is a perfect analog for the operation of the energies of creation. Explosive and powerful yang energies are received by an equally powerful yin-based receptacle, and creation occurs.		==Related LP Terms==

	It should be noted that despite the fact that the female form functions as the biological manifestation of yin based functionality in the realm of pro-creation, it is absolutely incorrect to associate the female form exclusively with yin, or the male form exclusively with yang energies. That is, women are not just yin and men are not just yang. For reasons explained elsewhere, both the male and female physical unit require yin and yang circuitry, yin and yang energies in some adequate balance, to function properly.		[[Yang]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Yang]]}}

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	~~==See Also==~~		[[Yang]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Yang]]}}

	~~[[The Book of the Triumph of Spirit Master Key]]~~

	~~[[The Basic Book]]~~		==Notes==

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'''Yin''' is creation energy. Yin comprises one half of an energetic circuit that drives creation in this universe. Yin energy is the formative half of the cosmic creation equation. Yin receives, and shapes, the powerful energetic thump of yang energy.

The human process of sexual procreation, from the genetic sex act itself, to conception, to the formation and birth of a new creation, is a perfect analog for the operation of the energies of creation. Explosive and powerful yang energies are received by an equally powerful yin-based receptacle, and creation occurs.

It should be noted that despite the fact that the female form functions as the biological manifestation of yin based functionality in the realm of pro-creation, it is absolutely incorrect to associate the female form exclusively with yin, or the male form exclusively with yang energies. That is, women are not just yin and men are not just yang. For reasons explained elsewhere, both the male and female physical unit require yin and yang circuitry, yin and yang energies in some adequate balance, to function properly.

==See Also==

[[The Book of the Triumph of Spirit Master Key]]

[[The Basic Book]]

[[Yang]]

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