Yin and Yang Need Each Other

Yin, the darkness, has always existed. The space in which everything exists has to have existed before everything else within it. Just the same as a baby cannot be without a mother. This darkness, however, is nothing without being recognised by its opposition, Yang. Without Yang, there is no Yin, it is simply, nothing. Or, not something. Yin is the receptive vessel that provides the space for Yang. When Yang presents itself, it also presents Yin. Yang is proud to bring Yin along with it so Yin is blessed to carry the space for Yang. These two siblings, rivals, coexist within and around each other through an interdependent appreciation for the other.

In a dark room there is only darkness, until light is brought in. The light reveals how much of the room was hidden by darkness. Darkness can permeate into the tiniest of crevasses, in fact, this is where it is most comfortable. In spaces where nothing else can survive, darkness thrives. Like water, darkness flows to the lowest point, it trickles evermore until the deepest point becomes consumed in it. Water can only to fill the container it resides, the container that holds it is its opposition. And once it is satisfied with flooding this space, it continues to leak through as far as it can reach, before it is defeated by that container. Even when the container is full, it only seeks the lowest point of a new, larger container. Darkness cannot exist where there is light, light contains darkness.

This tango of substance and container, darkness and light, yin and yang, creates a braid of existence that exposes the complexities of the interconnectedness of the nature of the universe. You cannot have one without the other, but the other cannot be without one. So the eternal question plays over in consciousness, what came first, the chicken or the egg?

Knowledge may override this question, “well technically, through advancements in biology, neither of them came before the other”. But technically, there is wisdom in this also. How prophetic to conclude through science, that the answer to the eternal question is exactly as we had always seen to be. There cannot be a baby without a mother. And there is no mother without her baby. Darkness cannot exist without light to highlight its boundaries, and lights true magnificence is only appreciated because it is compared to darkness.

Experientially, there is lightness, but there is also darkness. And it is not until we enter darkness that we appreciate the tiniest of light. And when there is darkness that extends beyond our capabilities, just the though of light brings warmth like the sunrise, faith. Faith in the truth that darkness cannot exist without light. That if there is darkness to this calibre, there must exist an equal and opposing light somewhere to contain this darkness. Because although darkness consumes every space within every atom of the universe, it can only fill the spaces that light allowed it to reach.