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The system of baduk - tao of yinyang - The Dao Culture
The system of baduk
What if there isn뭪
any discipline in this complex universe?
It would be terrible
chaos. The reason we confidently go to bed is we have natural trust that the
sun will rise from East everyday. Because yinyang is a discipline made by the
universe to maintain itself, the theory of yinyang in the eastern socity is
started from very simple and confident natural system. Of course, entire world
could not be explained by only Yin and Yang. �
일원 (一元; 太極)
양의
(兩儀; 陰陽)
삼재 (三才; 天地人)
사상 (四象; 太陽太陰小陽小陰)
오행
(五行; 木火土金水)
육합 (六合; 東西南北上下)뀉
The viewpoint of oriental
society is endless and tremendous, when it is divided.
However, look at this
baduk board.
On this board, amazing
world is expressed by jumbling many incidents connected by war & accomodation,
conflict & feud, love & peace, plot, struggle under cover, challenge,
survival & death, etc. The baduk is the reality of the universe where we
live. Many different principles can be used to explain baduk, but it could be
simplified as a fact that two different powers are harmonized between white
and black unit.
Our universe plays
a round of baduk.
We should realize
that there are only white and black unit, though we뭭e lost ourselves due to
the innumerable changes occurred by confliction between two units. The relationship
between white and black unit is called as a pair �짝�.
Learning in oriental
society is similar to looking around an exhibition.
At a glance we don뭪
understand, but contemplation makes us understand the meaning of abstract paintings.
Of course, we cannot make all people satisfy because each person has different
knowledge and attainment.
From now on, we will
magnify our vision to observe and study the earth from the universe. In the
learning of oriental society, the viewpoint of observer could be changed frequently,
and it should not be fixed. We should be able to contemplate the universe from
a drop of water in a small scale. We also should be able to put the great universe
on our palm. In big vision, the sky and the earth become one pair. Their characteristics
are opposite; the heaven is yang and the earth is yin.
The sun and the moon
present in the sky around our earth.
Those become a great
match according to 뱘inyang� concept.
The sun emanates light
to illuminate the earth during day time, and the moon reflect light of the sun
to illuminate the earth during night time. Therefore, the sun is called as yang
(陽), and the moon is called as yin (陰). 쟅n this way, stars can also
be divided into two groups. According to the great chinese confucianist So Gang
Jeul (AD. 1011~1077), glowing stars (성, 星) are minor yang (소양, 小陽), and
non-glowing stars are (신, 辰) minor yin 소음 (小陰). Putting togather, sun,
moon, glowing stars, and non-glowing stars make pairs in the sky as yang.
On the other hand,
on the earth there is a similar thing like sun in the sky. It뭩 fire. Because
fire burn itself, it is belong to yang. The opposite thing of fire is water
so fire and water make contrast to make pair. Stone (돌, 石) and soil (흙, 土)
are also comparable to the glowing star and non-glowing star in the sky. It
might not easy to analogize yinyang from stone and soil. As self-glowing stars
getting lose their light to become non-glowing stars, hard stone will become
soil due to weathering. Again, putting togather, water, fire, soil, and stone
make pairs on the earth as yin. Let뭩 describe these as a picture.
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The Heaven and Earth
(천지,天地) make a pair.
The Sun and Moon (일월, 日月) make a pair.
Glowing
stars and Non-Glowing stars (성신, 星辰) make a pair.
Water and Fire(수화,
水火) make a pair.
Soil and Stone (토석, 土石) make a pair.
Again, �일월성신�
and �수화토석� make a pair.
In oriental culture,
these pairs meet each other then creation and transformation are occurred. It뭩
the first play in the Baduk of the Heaven and the Earth.
(translated by Teayoun
Kim, kimteay@auburn.edu)
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