According to Ancient Chinese philosophy, the world is based upon, “Yin Yang”, or the balance of life. Without balance, we would have destruction and chaos. Opposites attract, yet in some cases without opposites, boredom would become the normal existence of life, itself.
“Adversity” reveals GENIUS while “Prosperity” conceals it!
Think about this for a minute. Without real failure, or negativity, humanity would be lost. With Prosperity and riches, we become miserable within a short period of time!
“Those who speak do NOT KNOW!” Those who KNOW, do NOT SPEAK!”
These are vivid examples of the balance of Yin Yang.
5,000 years before “Confucius“, a slave boy asked his master, “Lao Tsu“, to “Please, before you die, passion your great wisdom to share with those who beg to know what is the highest processes of thought”.
Lao Tsu, gave this some time and his consideration, and finally relented. He was the wisest of his people and up to that time, kept his thinking locked up, in his own mind.
The book, “Lao Tsu Te Chin” which was translated by “Jane English, with black and white drawings and photos, tastefully illustrated.
This book tells more about life than any other, in my opinion. Actually, I am not a reader. I am one who ‘glances’ at different pages. Since this particular book has no real beginning and no real end, it is a perfect book for someone like myself, who dislikes structure and loves to wander into this world from one section of life to another as a “nomad, wandering through time”.
This is also my philosophy in creating music. I enjoy wandering through a “forest of different notes and chords without any regard to “patterns” or connections from one section to another. It gives me inspiration to simply “travel through time, where nobody else has gone before”. The creation of my music is best for me to feel like it’s all a total adventure, rather than continue to find new patterns which have already been learned and/or taught before.
The unstructured book to which I refer, “Lao Tsu Te Chin” has that same quality. It wanders from thought to thought, without a pattern or an associative concept, relating to each other.
I strongly suggest you take the time to read (or wander through) this wonderfully, enlightening book.