Yin - Yang

Taking a look at one of the main aspects of Taoism, the principle of yin-yang and relating it to our very own Hindu mythology, here’s an interesting analogy:

The yin and yang represent all the opposite principles one finds in the universe. Under yang are the principles of maleness, the sun, creation, heat, light, Heaven, dominance, and so on, and under yin are the principles of femaleness, the moon, completion, cold, darkness, material forms, submission, and so on. Each of these opposites produce the other: Heaven creates the ideas of things under yang, the earth produces their material forms under yin, and vice versa; creation occurs under the principle of yang, the completion of the created thing occurs under yin, and vice versa, and so on. This production of yin from yang and yang from yin occurs cyclically and constantly, so that no one principle continually dominates the other or determines the other. Since no one principle dominates eternally, that means that all conditions are subject to change into their opposites

This cyclical nature of yin and yang, the opposing forces of change in the universe, mean several things. First, that all phenomena change into their opposites in an eternal cycle of reversal. Second, since the one principle produces the other, all phenomena have within them the seeds of their opposite state, that is, sickness has the seeds of health, health contains the seeds of sickness, wealth contains the seeds of poverty, etc. This is called "presence in absence."

Although it is correct to see yin as feminine and yang as masculine, everything in the world is really a mixture of the two, which means that female beings may actually be mostly yang and male beings may actually be mostly yin. Because of that, things that we might expect to be female or male because they clearly represent yin or yang, may turn out to be the opposite instead.

According to scientists in every man there is a woman and in every woman there is a man... that’s why a few men are feministic and a few women are tomboyish. Looking from a metaphysical plane, this life is an eternal struggle to reach the state of equilibrium between the two. And when you reach the equilibrium between both man(yin) and woman(yang) inside you...That’s when you become equal to God. This is the state of Ardhanarishwara. The true balance of yin-yang. The balance between the forces of nature. The state which everyone of us tries to reach, knowingly or unknowingly.