Yin Yang Zen Garden
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Yin Yang represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents "everything", while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called "yin" (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen. They are not completely black or white, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without each other.
While "yin" would be dark, passive, downward, cold, contracting, and weak, "yang" would be bright, active, upward, hot, expanding, and strong. The shape of the yin and yang sections of the symbol, actually gives you a sense of the continual movement of these two energies, yin to yang and yang to yin, causing everything to happen: just as things expand and contract, and temperature changes from hot to cold.
This little Zen garden encourages you to create or just play. It reflects your inner feelings through the designs and patterns you rake. That is when small things take on a bigger resonance, when we have the chance to glimpse the meaning of the world in a grain of sand, for it has been framed in majestic simplicity. It will bring stillness to your nerves, let your mind float, sweeten your soul, or like a book reach down into some deeper earthiness of your more secret nature. Size - 7.75"
While "yin" would be dark, passive, downward, cold, contracting, and weak, "yang" would be bright, active, upward, hot, expanding, and strong. The shape of the yin and yang sections of the symbol, actually gives you a sense of the continual movement of these two energies, yin to yang and yang to yin, causing everything to happen: just as things expand and contract, and temperature changes from hot to cold.
This little Zen garden encourages you to create or just play. It reflects your inner feelings through the designs and patterns you rake. That is when small things take on a bigger resonance, when we have the chance to glimpse the meaning of the world in a grain of sand, for it has been framed in majestic simplicity. It will bring stillness to your nerves, let your mind float, sweeten your soul, or like a book reach down into some deeper earthiness of your more secret nature. Size - 7.75"
