the series

TAO  CALLIGRAPHY

                                                                 YIN

              Yin co-depends on yang.  It is negative, passive, yielding

                            flexibility, the moon, earth, dark, cold, soft, water,

                                                                                               feminine.   

                            Its conventional sign (I Ching) is  :     _ _      and 

                              its ideogram represents the shady side of a hill.

                                                                                                       (right)

                          YANG 
    Yang  co-depends on yin.  It is positive, active, un-yielding,
    
    masculine. 

    Its conventional sign (I Ching) is  :     ___     and


    its ideogram represents the sunny side of a hill.    (left)

    Yin and Yang are interdependent, arise mutually,

    and both contain the seeds of the other.

   They work  together,  to dynamically produce and

    balance the cycles of nature (existence).
 

                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                   ??-tzu