Here is a picture of the Yin Yang Symbol.
The Yin Yang Symbol has been split along it’s internal boundary line into two identical shapes in the next picture.
A previous blog entry discussed how a half of a Yin Yang Symbol looked similar to the shape of a cresting ocean wave.
No mention was made in the previous blog entry about why the shape of half of the Yin Yang Symbol looks like a cresting ocean wave. This blog entry will work at answering that question.
When attempting to solve any problem, a good place to start is to list all of the known facts.
(1) – An ocean wave is made out of water.
(2) – The Yin Yang Symbol is frequently associated with Kung Fu.
If the reader is familiar with books about Kung Fu, a very large percentage of those books will either compare water to some physical Kung Fu movement, or water will be presented in some philosophical or metaphysical setting. Discussions about the energy of the body for instance, might liken the energy flowing in the human body to water flowing in a stream. Or advice on how to meditate might instruct the practitioner “To visualize a pool of still water” while they meditate.
All of those references and comparisons between water, the physical movements of Kung Fu, and Kung Fu philosophy and metaphysics, make it seem likely the Yin Yang Symbol could have something to do with ocean waves or water. But what?
That question is going to be put aside temporarily while another possible connection between waves and the Yin Yang Symbol is presented.
Waves are not limited to water. Electrical signals also has a wave shape. An instrument called an “oscilloscope” was invented to measure the wave shape of electrical signals. A drawing of an oscilloscope is shown below.
On the left side of the oscilloscope is a display for showing the wave shape. There is a grid on the display for measuring. The wavy line on the grid is the shape of an example electrical signal. On the right side of the oscilloscope are some dials that adjust the length and height of the wave on the display.
The next picture shows an example wave form with some labels on it. The labels are the names given to the properties of a wave.
With that additional information and those additional pictures, it is decided that comparing the picture of the ocean wave with the Yin Yang Half superimposed on it to the wave form from the picture above might help figure out the connection between waves and the Yin Yang Symbol.
There do not seem to be any similarities between the two pictures. The electromagnetic wave travels up and down with a repeating curved shape. The ocean wave has a curved shape similar to the shape of half of the Yin Yang Symbol. Neither part of either picture appears similar. Comparing those two pictures does not seem to have helped in figuring out why waves seem to be connected to the Yin Yang Symbol.
There are only a few objects available to use in figuring out the connection between the Yin Yang Symbol and waves. Since comparing the electromagnetic wave to the ocean wave with the half of a Yin Yang Symbol superimposed on it did not help, the next picture compares the electromagnetic wave to the Yin Yang Symbol that has been broken in half.
That picture also does not seem to present any obvious answer to why waves and the Yin Yang Symbol are connected.
A previous related blog entry stressed that a person can do anything they want with the clues they are given to solve a puzzle. That blog entry warned against unthinkingly accepting what was provided.
That advice will be applied to the currently intractable problem.
The two Yin Yang halves were created by splitting the Yin Yang Symbol along it’s internal boundary and pulling the two halves directly apart from each other.
The Yin Yang halves do not have to stay in the same orientation to each other that they are in the picture above. They can be moved around in any spatial relationship possible to see if some inspiration for solving the current problem arises.
Because there are a myriad of possible orientations for the two Yin Yang halves to take with each other, and because this blog post is headed towards a specific goal, instead of moving the Yin Yang halves around in a haphazard way hoping to spot some configuration that provides some inspiration helpful to the current situation, the Yin Yang halves are oriented as shown in the next picture,
The reoriented Yin Yang Halves are compared to the wave form.
Do you see the connection? Do you see what the next picture has to look like? No?
It is not that hard actually. Copies of the shape created from the two Yin Yang halves are placed end to end and compared to the wave form in the following picture.
The multiple Yin Yang halves placed end to end in the particular configuration they are in, look like the wave form. The wave shape formed by the multiple Yin Yang halves is highlighted in the next picture.
So is that the answer to why a Yin Yang half looks like the shape of a cresting ocean wave?
What do you think?
Yin Yang halves look like the shape of a cresting ocean wave. And Yin Yang halves can be manipulated to create a repeating wave shape……
Doesn’t it seem like there has to be some connection in there some where?