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No one would even imagine that the concept of yin and yang is applicable to any religious system. Men is far from God because of the wrong they have done and cannot be near to God though God would want to be near to all men.
Men have erred in handling life. Men are troubled by life and are not at peace, not pure enough to be at peace because men are restless and disturbed by the worldly matters which often fall into opposing contingencies like praise and blame, gain and loss, growing and ageing, storms and calm seas. The list is endless.
Men may even blame God for men think God is omnipotent but yet helpless and not helpful. But men must realise this.
The world and universe we are in are in a flux and comprises various forces and energies in dynamic interactions. These include mental forces and all do separate men from God and saints.
Men must be able to handle them and be atop and at peace so that men will not be swept around and backslide and be further away from God, so that men could walk the straighter road to God and saints. Thus it is yin yang issues that separate and distance men from God.
Resolving the way to handle, to balance, to live and to be atop and ride the yin and yang of life will bring peace. Then men are near God and saints even though men are in the world of yin and yang.
As long as men exist, men cannot run away from yin and yang and not even in afterlife, be it in some corners of heaven or elsewhere. So men must wake up and resolve to cross the mountains, seas, desert with scorching sun and drought of life by being not affected, conditioned and submerged by and be at the mercy of the harshness, deceptions and conflicts of yin and yang.
Happiness in life is just prelude of sorrow. Living is just the prelude of dying. Men must not be at mercy of life - the yin and yang of life.
God and saints had overcome the yin and the yang to be at peace with and masters of yin and yang. We must learn to be like them.
Only when we do not go after yin and yang and think we can run away from yin and yang but only when we willed to be not affected by yin and yang, can we be at peace and be with God and saints.
We do not wait till afterlife for the promised land but we are there in this life the moment we arrive at yin yang balance, for then our peace from yin yang balance merges with the peace of God and saints. Some refer to the latter as the holy spirit.
Surely we can make it. Practice makes perfect. The way or Tao to God and saints is one through balance of yin and yang. All saints teach this same way but they do not use terms like Tao or yin and yang.
Even Jesus way is the same. Just ponder and give some thought and then we will be more insightful. Didn't Jesus say, "I am the way the truth and the light...." ?
He did show men the way but to the people of his time in ancient Rome where the unthinkable happened, he rightly added that "no men can go to God but through him" and the way he showed.
But perhaps, his perspective of the way to God may be the best for many men who would otherwise be lost and far from God. God is kind and he gives great choices of the various religions and sects.
He did show men the way but to the people of his time in ancient Rome where the unthinkable happened, he rightly added that "no men can go to God but through him" and the way he showed.
But perhaps, his perspective of the way to God may be the best for many men who would otherwise be lost and far from God. God is kind and he gives great choices of the various religions and sects.
