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• Any given frame of reference can be divided into Yin-Yang pairs (i.e. pairs of opposite factors). The planet Earth is divided into oceans and landmasses. Life forms are mobile or immobile, warm blooded or cold-blooded. The body can be regarded as consisting of an exterior portion of skin and skeletal muscle and an interior portion of viscera and bones.

• Yin and Yang are descriptive terms; they are not nominative. Yin-Yang terminology is used when describing the nature or characteristic tendency of one thing with reference to another. Linguistically, it often appears that these terms are used as nouns, however it should always be understood that Yin-Yang are adjectives and do not refer to any concrete or existing thing.

• Pure or absolute Yin (and Yang) does not exist. There is always some degree of the opposite contained in anything that exists, no matter how extreme the degree of Yin or Yang. Taking Expansion-Contraction as an example, it is impossible for the mind to conceive of pure, 100% expansiveness without any trace of the contracting force. Whatever is conceived would simply expand to infinity, i.e. out of existence. Similarly, pure 100% contraction without any trace of expansive force would simply contract down to zero, i.e. out of existence. It is a condition for the existence of anything that there always must be some degree of both Yin and Yang qualities present.

• Yin is complimentary to Yang and vice versa. There does not exist any antagonism between opposites in Nature. They are always complimentary. The normal, healthy, functional, durable existence of everything in Nature depends on the mutual enhancement and beneficial interaction of opposite forces. Day and night; summer and winter; work and rest; man and woman. On one level, when there is an antagonistic relationship between opposites this leads to destruction. However, from the larger perspective, the balance of Nature is always maintained.

• Yin nourishes and sustains and controls Yang and vice versa. Each thing depends upon its opposite in order to exist; thus Yin 'creates' Yang and Yang 'creates' Yin. Opposites also hold each other in balance and exert mutual control. The soil produces crops for mankind; and man cultivates the soil. If there is insufficient care and attention by the workers to the crops, there may be less crops and more weeds. Workers produce goods and services; goods and services produce wealth.

• Everything in the physical world has an opposite. There are no absolutes in the manifest universe. Wherever there is a 'front' there will also be a 'back'; the bigger the front, the bigger the back. Birth is followed eventually by death; economic boom by recession; conquest of nature by pollution and degradation of resources. There are no advantages without some disadvantages; there are no disadvantages without some advantages.

• Yin attracts Yang and Yang attracts Yin. The greater the difference, the greater the attraction.

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