Saturday, May 5, 2012

Mignon step 1

Mignon is born 27-11-1985 
(we always say the day of birth before the month)

So I started with the 2
The 2. An orange Yin Yang symbol This symbol represents the primal opposing but complementary forces found in all things in the universe. Depicted as it is, it also outlines the necessity of balance in all things.
Yin & Yang are Co-Arising and Interdependent: The curves and circles of the Yin-Yang symbol imply a kaleidoscope-like movement. This implied movement represents the ways in which Yin and Yang are mutually-arising, interdependent, and continuously transforming, one into the other. One could not exist without the other, for each contains the essence of the other. Night becomes day, and day becomes night. Birth becomes death, and death becomes birth (think: composting). Friends become enemies, and enemies become friends. Such is the nature - Taoism teaches - of everything in the relative world.

Within light there is darkness, but do not try to understand that darkness.
Within darkness there is light, but do not look for that light.
Light and darkness are a pair, like the foot before and the foot behind in walking.
Each thing has its own intrinsic value and is related to everything else in function and position.
Ordinary life fits the absolute as a box and its lid.
The absolute works together with the relative,
like two arrows meeting in mid-air.

~Shih-tou~


from an article by Elizabeth Reninger

Have a wonderful day!



3 comments:

  1. wow, heavy. and lovely.


    kj

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  2. i love how it starts, these mandalas.

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  3. This is so fascinating, Marianne! I never knew a thing about mandalas before you. xo

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