Metaphysical Insights on Yin-Yang Symbolism and Dual Polarities

The constraints imposed on manifestation by what regulates its becoming; however, in the instantaneous atemporality of the One's act that establishes Duality, center and circumference coincide. Meditation on the Yin-Yang symbol allows us to trace back to such metaphysical realities and grasp the dynamism they impress upon realities inferior to them. Metaphysically, what appears on the surface as an opposition between contraries, irreducible and opposed to one another, and which remain such if realized only in the plane of their manifestation, is the manifested aspect of the One that shows itself as self-opposition. The Yin-Yang is, at a level of reality experienced as deeper, the operational symbol of Complementarity, that is, of what allows access to a higher level of Reality. Such complementarity is evoked, admirably, by and in the internal symmetries of the symbol in question. The bipolarity hinged on the two centers emanated along the vertical passing through the single immobile center, orients the meditator to concentrate on the symbolism of the double duality, symbolized in the two centers and in the two currents. The bi-chromatism of the Yin-Yang symbol guides intellectual intuition to reach, with the heart, the dynamism inherent to the double duality, which leads us to the reality of Duality in its return to Unity. The interior and complete geometry of this symbol elevates the intellect to the truth of such return. The chromatic oppositions most frequently in which this symbol is known to us are those of white-and-black and, more rarely, green-and-red; if correctly understood, they synthesize, in their immediacy, the distinction inherent to every opposition. However, the bi-centric splitting of the symbol and its two parts wrapped around their respective centers, each originating, by chromatic reflection, the part of which the other is the respective center, refers to a deeper dynamic unity, the root of every duality. The flow formed by the two currents, each rotating around the center of opposite color, symbolizes the universal vortex of cosmic becoming. Yang at its point of maximum extension produces Yin, Yin at its point of maximum extension produces Yang. Meditating, in quiet and silence, on the relationship between the center, which polarizes the entire symbol, and the circumference, which stabilizes, by containing it, the dynamic differentiation of the parts and on the reciprocal integration given by the return to unity, we intuit what the realization in us of the virtuous dynamism of the double duality might lead to. A meditation that leads to associating the number 4 with the double duality is often that obtained by giving prevalence to the quantitative aspect of the number alone. Meditating on the double duality by means of the quaternary alone results in a stabilization, a true solidification, incompatible with the internal dynamism evocable by means of the Yin-Yang symbol. The symbolic degradation consisting in operating with the number 4 alone to synthesize the dynamic harmony of the entire symbolism of the Yin-Yang is equivalent to the intellectual limitation of wanting to realize it immediately as a manifestation of the number 2. The intuition of 4, of the square primarily, evokes a stability that does not allow us to work on ourselves effectively using the symbolism of the Yin-Yang. Similarly, but from a geometric point of view, upon close examination, the only isometric transformation that respects the chromatism of the Yin-Yang is the identical transformation, symbol of Identity but also of total stasis. This is that aspect, always present, of the symbolism that refers to the full stability of Unity. The geometric-chromatic aspect, with the opposition black-center-above versus white-center-below (or vice versa) and white-current versus black-current is the explication of a metaphysics actually not easily accessible. A first meditation shows that the flow generated by the black pole, if applied to the white pole, gives black, and the flow generated by the white pole applied to the black pole gives white. The intellect here must adhere not only to the splitting of the center but also to the primordial splitting generated by the two currents, descending and ascending, generated by, with and in such splitting. If we indicate with $N$ and $B$ respectively, the black-pole-above and the white-pole-below, correspondingly we have $\phi_N$ and $\phi_B$ the respective operations given by the flow. In general the action of the flow, $\phi_N$, originating from the black pole, if it acts on the white pole then obtains black, and when it acts on the black pole returns black; in simple language: $\phi_N(N) = N$ and $\phi_N(B) = N$ Similarly, the action of the flow $\phi_B$, originating from the white pole, when it acts on the black pole returns white, and if it acts on the white pole returns white: $\phi_B(N) = B$ and $\phi_B(B) = B$. We therefore have a first law of the primordial double duality that imposes itself on the heart of the meditator free from certain limitations.