I want pictures of my tattoo on-line...
It kinda bugs me when people ask me what my tattoo is. I guess it's because it's freaking obvious to me, but I can understand how it's not to someone else. It does look like a tear dropish thing if you don't know what's up. But, I'll let all of you readers in on something- it's half a yin yang. Okay? Cool! Then after I tell people what it is and that Allen has the other half they always say, "What if you break up?"... Well the rules of yin and yang are as follows...
Everything can be described as both yin and yang.
1. Yin and yang are opposites.
Everything has its opposite-although this is never absolute, only relative. No one thing is completely yin or completely yang. Each contains the seed of its opposite. For example, winter can turn into summer; "what goes up must come down".
2. Yin and yang are interdependent.
One cannot exist without the other. For example, day cannot exist without night. Light cannot exist without darkness.
3. Yin and yang can be further subdivided into yin and yang.
Any yin or yang aspect can be further subdivided into yin and yang. For example, temperature can be seen as either hot or cold. However, hot can be further divided into warm or burning; cold into cool or icy. Within each spectrum, there is a smaller spectrum; every beginning is a moment in time, and has a beginning and end, just as every hour has a beginning and end.
4. Yin and yang consume and support each other.
Yin and yang are usually held in balance-as one increases, the other decreases. However, imbalances can occur. There are four possible imbalances: Excess yin, excess yang, yin deficiency, and yang deficiency. During the switch to Daylight saving time, for example, there is more 'yin' than 'yang'. They can again be seen as a pair: by excess of yin there is a yang deficiency and vice versa. The imbalance is also a relative factor: the excess of yang "forces" yin to be more "concentrated".
5. Yin and yang can transform into one another.
At a particular stage, yin can transform into yang and vice versa. For example, night changes into day; warmth cools; life changes to death. However this transformation is relative too. Night and day coexist on Earth at the same time when shown from space.
6. Part of yin is in yang and part of yang is in yin.
The dots in each serve:
as a reminder that there are always traces of one in the other. For example, there is always light within the dark (e.g., the stars at night); these qualities are never completely one or the other.
as a reminder that absolute extreme side transforms instantly into the opposite, or that the labels yin and yang are conditioned by an observer's point of view. For example, the hardest stone is easiest to break. This can show that absolute discrimination between the two is artificial.
Therefore, it can relate to life, not just our realtionship. It's to know that without others, without society, you are nothing. That's the best thing to understand. That you can't exisit all alone. It makes me feel like I'm a part of something more, I guess.
The other tattoo I want is of the words "Dum spiro spero"... it's Latin for "While I breathe, I hope"... I just don't know where to put it. Any suguestions?
My sister drew all over my legs. It's pretty hilarious.
Hmmm... not much else is new... I got my nails done, killer salon I went to. I love work at the resteraunt. I have school crap to deal with tomorrow... that's about it.
How is everyone else? I hope well, :)
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Everything can be described as both yin and yang.
1. Yin and yang are opposites.
Everything has its opposite-although this is never absolute, only relative. No one thing is completely yin or completely yang. Each contains the seed of its opposite. For example, winter can turn into summer; "what goes up must come down".
2. Yin and yang are interdependent.
One cannot exist without the other. For example, day cannot exist without night. Light cannot exist without darkness.
3. Yin and yang can be further subdivided into yin and yang.
Any yin or yang aspect can be further subdivided into yin and yang. For example, temperature can be seen as either hot or cold. However, hot can be further divided into warm or burning; cold into cool or icy. Within each spectrum, there is a smaller spectrum; every beginning is a moment in time, and has a beginning and end, just as every hour has a beginning and end.
4. Yin and yang consume and support each other.
Yin and yang are usually held in balance-as one increases, the other decreases. However, imbalances can occur. There are four possible imbalances: Excess yin, excess yang, yin deficiency, and yang deficiency. During the switch to Daylight saving time, for example, there is more 'yin' than 'yang'. They can again be seen as a pair: by excess of yin there is a yang deficiency and vice versa. The imbalance is also a relative factor: the excess of yang "forces" yin to be more "concentrated".
5. Yin and yang can transform into one another.
At a particular stage, yin can transform into yang and vice versa. For example, night changes into day; warmth cools; life changes to death. However this transformation is relative too. Night and day coexist on Earth at the same time when shown from space.
6. Part of yin is in yang and part of yang is in yin.
The dots in each serve:
as a reminder that there are always traces of one in the other. For example, there is always light within the dark (e.g., the stars at night); these qualities are never completely one or the other.
as a reminder that absolute extreme side transforms instantly into the opposite, or that the labels yin and yang are conditioned by an observer's point of view. For example, the hardest stone is easiest to break. This can show that absolute discrimination between the two is artificial.
Therefore, it can relate to life, not just our realtionship. It's to know that without others, without society, you are nothing. That's the best thing to understand. That you can't exisit all alone. It makes me feel like I'm a part of something more, I guess.
The other tattoo I want is of the words "Dum spiro spero"... it's Latin for "While I breathe, I hope"... I just don't know where to put it. Any suguestions?
My sister drew all over my legs. It's pretty hilarious.
Hmmm... not much else is new... I got my nails done, killer salon I went to. I love work at the resteraunt. I have school crap to deal with tomorrow... that's about it.
How is everyone else? I hope well, :)
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