It reads OK till the restaurant example, then it gets confused and confusing.
Nature is always balanced, as it has been in evolution; hunters hunting to survive, the hunted producing excess offspring to survive and some species becoming extinct... ALL are in balance.
Balance is a continuing end-point of nature, like white light comprising of the infinite shades of the 3 basic colours (or 7 colours of the rainbow), like the 'dynamic-equilibrium' in celestial bodies (e.g. in our solar system) at any given moment, while the universe is expanding and millions of galaxies are being formed and consumed at the same time!
It is not possible to explain this ongoing 'dynamic-balance' in retrospect by any 'prism' of philosophy,
be it yin-yang, tri-gun (3-virtues: sattwa-raja-tamas) or tri-dosh (3-faults: kafa-pitta-wata) etc.
I think Yin Yang is a nice concept, often needlessly over-interpreted.
On Aug 21, 2012 Swamy Vigyananand wrote :
Nature is always balanced, as it has been in evolution; hunters hunting to survive, the hunted producing excess offspring to survive and some species becoming extinct... ALL are in balance.
Balance is a continuing end-point of nature, like white light comprising of the infinite shades of the 3 basic colours (or 7 colours of the rainbow), like the 'dynamic-equilibrium' in celestial bodies (e.g. in our solar system) at any given moment, while the universe is expanding and millions of galaxies are being formed and consumed at the same time!
It is not possible to explain this ongoing 'dynamic-balance' in retrospect by any 'prism' of philosophy,
be it yin-yang, tri-gun (3-virtues: sattwa-raja-tamas) or tri-dosh (3-faults: kafa-pitta-wata) etc.
I think Yin Yang is a nice concept, often needlessly over-interpreted.