Facets of a Diamond - Blog

I look at the blank piece of paper on the desk before me. It is all yin, all passive. And then at my pen as it starts to write—as it starts to write this sentence you are reading now. The writing is all yang, all active. Then I stop writing and take in that what I have written on the paper and the paper itself have become one: a balance of yin and yang.

Then, after a sentence or so, I stop writing and recognize that what I have written and the paper I have written it on have become one: a balance of yin and yang. Now the two combined, the yin and the yang, become one—all yin. And then I write my next sentence or so, again all yang on the yin. And again I stop when this new yang is balanced with the yin, which was previously the combined yin-yang.

And so my writing continues: yin, then yang, combining to create a balanced yin-yang, and then becoming a passive yin for the next writing’s yang. And then at the end, hopefully, all the overall yin-yang should be in harmony, should be balanced. There should be peace.

And then the same process is repeated by the reader, again hopefully creating within him a balance of yin and yang, a state of resolution and peace. This, whatever the actual outcome, is always my intention.