Yin will overcome Yang...like water overcomes rock

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Gosh the idea of yin overcoming yang has been on my mind all day. As I thought more about it I realize how the cycles of yin and yang play out. Even with this past election, the yang were over come by the yin. This is the cycle of life. It how it maintains balance. For it might seem that the underdogs have won in life but it is really balance being brought fourth. Look at the Chinese who are prospering while the rest of the world is in despair. Look all around you and you will those which were once quiet have gained a certain voice and spotlight. But eventually those that are yin will become yang and someone else will over come them. it's just the balance of life.

I've been seeing and feeling a lot of balance in my life. The last few yeas have been hard financially. This year I'm seeing more balance, not so much prosperity or gain but more of a coming back to balance. For me its not about one destroying the other for one can not exist without the other for example the sun needs the moon. There is balance in it. Hot needs cold, man needs woman, young needs old, and so on.


Tackling the more dangerous and hardest obstacles in life can all be achieved by the principle of YIN. The soft

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Trying to grab this cactus with our bare hands would be foolish. But did you know its is because we fear the cactus that causes us to tense up. If we would maintain softness in our hands the needles would have a harder time penetrating our skin. There is valuable lesson here to be used in all of life.

Chapter 36: "Lao Tzu...further said, 'The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong."

Chapter 43: "The softest in the world gallops over the hardest in the world."

Chapter 78: "Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water, yet for attacking the had and strong, nothing can be better, for there is no substitute for it."

Chapter 78: "That the weak overcomes the strong, and the soft overcomes the hard, everyone in the world understands...."

There are many things in life that we want but we forcefully try to get them using yang but really if we simply relax and try softer we may be able to get what we want with out forcing it which often leads to disaster or some big mess that takes years or even a lifetime to get over.

We won't get everything we want in life, no one does as the Rolling Stones said, "You don't always get what you want but if you try some time you get what you need. I think we usually get what we want when it bring a chance for balance in our lives...
When our lives are out of sort we needs to soften up and let balance in.