TAI- JI THE UNITY OF OPPOSITES THE PERFECT HARMONY-A HEALTHY GUIDE. PART ONE!

TAI- JI THE UNITY OF OPPOSITES
THE PERFECT HARMONY-A HEALTHY GUIDE. PART ONE!

There is an explicit display of connotations which seems simple but contains a complex philosophical ideas that touches on everything thereof from disease and health related issues to war and economic related issues and so on.

There has always been a perfect display of harmony by natural arrangement or occurring of the natural universe.

Let’s take for instance the Tai Ji diagram of traditional Chinese medicine. Having a black and white fishlike structure with white dot in the black and black dot in the white. A constant change and circulation of the fishlike structure seen to be in constant process.

From the rising of the sun and moon, sunrise and sunset, moon waxing and wanning, solar eclipse and lunar eclipse. Established the believe and fact that, all things on earth abide to the concept of circulation, change and ceaseless generation. Since images has always been the best way of depiction.

All things on earth emerge and develop and so there’s always a sort of movement and stillness. No extreme holds long at the end.

Drought and then rain comes and vice versa and so without a fixed start and end point and with a constant evolvement there’s never an absolute end. Just like a circle in a sense of perfect consummation.
Other civilisations across the world have been baffled with the diagram of Tai Ji.

While others express some level of mystic or spiritual meaning to it, some simply see it as a symbolic representation of the culture of a particular race of people. Few therefore, see it as an embodied symbol of harmony and unity. Accelerating and decelerating. Changing forms to maintain a perfect harmony and balance.

This symbol comprises of two colours black and white. White representing the force in all things seen and black the state of all things seen.

So one represents an object or anything seen while the other represents the force vital in it. So things change to become new just as a seed will begin rotting and then sprouting.

The famous colours of black and white used represent humanity of all colour and race as well as all colours there off.
From a modern science perspective and explanation black and white are universal colours.

Centuries ago Isaac Newton proved to the world that white encompasses all visible lights while no light can enter black. With sunlight penetrating through a prism and producing a spectrum of colours such as red, green, orange, blue, yellow, purple. Then he blocked the spectrum and let it penetrate through a second prism producing a white light anew.

This gives us a clue and a way to explain that the diagram of Tai Ji though with only black and white colours yet it encompasses all colours from the darkest to the lightest. And again encompassing people of all race.

The fish symbol in the diagram appears as a pair of fish resting head to tail with a black fish having a white eye and vice versa to denote a force in an object and a state of an object with a force. These two fishes form a circle of unified dynamics representing all things known and unknown. A display of great wisdom , a perfect harmonious combination of the external and internal beauty. The Tai Ji diagram was originally used to keep records of events in Ancient times by the Chinese.

Later it was used as a symbol of divination having eight Trigrams to foretel or predict future occurrences.

Indeed many great discoveries and breakthroughs such as Binary system, Atomic structure and Biological genetics could find their corresponding in its Bagua Theories and Eight Trigrams patterns which would be explained in my subsequent publications.

By DR SETH NKRUMAH.
LIAONING UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE. NEPHROLOGY DEPARTMENT (INTERNAL MEDICINE)
SUPERVISOR:
PROF HE XUE HONG.