Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Taiji Diagram and Bagua

Taiji Diagram
The taiji (supreme ultimate) diagram presents an image of interac-tion between yin and yang. The dark area is symbolic of yin and the light one of yang, and the dark and light "fish" chasing each other stand for constant dong and change. The small dark and light dots in the diagram suggest that there is yang within yin and vice versa. The S-shaped divid-ing line, or the taiji line, symbolizes a state of harmony and balance. The two fish comprise a whole circle, indicating that y/n and yang do coexist in the same entity and promote, check and change each other.
The human body, in health or sickness, is regulated through the dong of yin and yang. Qigong exercises are done on the basis of regulat-ing the dong of y/n and yang within the human body so that balance will be achieved. In the context of the human body, yang usually denotes the male, the upper part of the body, the back, the limbs, the six fu organs (gallbladder, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, bladder and the tri-jiao, or warmer), whilst yin refers to the female, the lower part of the body, the abdomen, the torso, the five zang organs (heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys). All the vital activities are manifest in the dong of yin and yang.

Bagua
Bagua was devised by ancient Chinese, who observed the dong of heaven and earth and made a study of'living things, including mankind, in relation to their natural surroundings. With bagua, these ancient Chinese depicted man and the cosmos and explained the structure and movement of the universe. In this sense, bagua is a map of the world.
Bagua represents the basic law of all forms of dong in the world--from the movement of the stars to the vital activities within the human body. Therefore, it has long served as a theoretical guideline for qigong practitioners.
Traditionally, there have been two versions of bagua. The first is the Fuxi bagua, or otherwise known as the prenatal bagua. The second is the Wenwang*bagua, or sometimes called the postnatal bagua. In the pre-natal bagua, qian (heaven) is in the south, leun (earth) in the north, li (sun) in the east, lean (moon) in the west, gen (mountain) in the north-west, dui (river) in the southeast, zhen (thunder) in the northeast and :run (wind) in the southwest. The four trigrams, from qian to zhen, move counterclockwise and signify the dong of heaven, whilst the rest, from :run to leun, move clockwise and indicate the dong of earth. In the postnatal bagua, li, lean, zhen and dui form two complementary pairs, taking up their positions in the south, north, east and west, but the other four are placed at the four corners.

Source: Taiji Diagram and Bagua
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