This aerial photograph is from the early construction of this exhibit: you can see the circle and the yin-yang etched into the soil. It’s an incredibly important number to the field of mathematics.Īt Unity, we have our own “Sacred Geometry” feature. Pi is the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter , always 3.14 (and many more digits beyond the decimal point). It appears in a circle, which carries its own meanings in nature and in religion. But Good and Evil are not as easily defined as, for example, Night and Day, because so much subjectivity come with them, stemming from what we like and dislike, what we fear and don’t fear. When it comes to Good and Evil, we would say that Yang is Good (harmony) and Yin is Evil (disharmony). correlates originate from and are united in one common principle, i.e., the. If you look at the symbol of Yin and Yang (which look like two little curled tadpoles) you will see that one is white with a black dot inside it and the other is black with a white dot inside it. Yin: Black, dark, north, water, receptive, earth. The yin-yang symbol appears in a circle and represents the unity of darkness/lightness, fire/water, expansion/retraction, and other dualities. The yin-yang concept is a pivotal theory in traditional Chinese thought. The Yin-Yang symbol can also be found embedded within a more complex Taoist image called the Taiji Tu, which is a visual representation of all of Taoist cosmology.
“Sacred Geometry” refers to the shapes, patterns, and numbers that repeat in nature and which can symbolize key tenets of philosophy, religion, or spirituality. The most well-known Taoist symbol is the Yin-Yang: a circle divided into two swirling sections, one black and the other white, with a smaller circle of the opposite color nestled within each half. There are many profound ways to describe this philosophy-more than we can put in single blog post! They fade into each other like day fades into night. Thus the black and white lock into each other within the circle, and a spot of each appears in the opposite’s larger shape. It reminds us that things that seem to be opposite are in fact complementary and even interdependent. The yin-yang symbol comes from Chinese philosophy. I stumbled upon one of Jordan Peterson’s talks on YouTube, Who Dares Say He Believes in God.
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A bird’s-eye view of this feature reveals it to be a yin-yang shape-two inter-locking pieces that fit into a full circle. In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is the idea of dualism, that seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world. On your last visit to Unity Church Hill Nursery, you probably have seen the circular terraces that are close to the south side of our building, at the top of the nursery display.