There’s a curious way that polarity, the masculine & feminine, plays out in creation. This isn’t a question of gender, but dynamic. We’re all a blend of both with variations in emphasis.
When you talk energy, Yin-Yang, masculine energy is the initiating, acting, outward flowing, penetrating energy. It is the impersonal and analytical.
The feminine energy is the being, introspective, calming, receptive energy. It is personal and intuitive.
However, on a deeper level, it’s somewhat the reverse.
The masculine, Shiva, is the neutral observer, non-acting, inward flowing, and the awareness of being. He remains impersonal.
The feminine, Shakti, is the actual energy, the creative force, the initiator, the outward flowing, and again, the personal.
I puzzled about this difference, but then realized the field of creation requires balance to be sustained. Thus, on the surface, the masculine uses the feminine energy to create, and the feminine uses the masculine to maintain. If the masculine used the masculine, it would create imbalance.
In a deeper sense, there isn’t really a polarity at all, but a wholeness, interwoven to create movement and rest, leading to the fullness of experience.
Davidya
In daoist neidan they say that yin yang switches when moving from preheaven (before creation) to postheaven (creation).
So preheaven yin becomes post heaven yang. Preheaven yang becomes post heaven yin. Just like you realized!
That is a key understanding for doing true alchemy….though this is not obvious.
Much love
Michael
Cool – thanks, Michael.
Exactly what I needed to hear to trigger insight! As ever, thanks Davidya.
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So interesting – thanks David.
You’re welcome, Harriet
This is also an expression I’ve explored in depth (during the Kundalini rising I experienced) and arrived at a similar place – I tend to call the Shiva the Divine Masculine aspect and the Shakti the Divine Feminine – like the dot of the opposite in the yin-yang symbol. The expression of the feminine within/through/as the masculine and the expression of the masculine within/through/as the feminine. I appreciate your take as well.
Well put, Dara. And yes, my terms come from a Vedic background and style of experience.
Thank you, David!
So concise and clear.
The subtle mechanics of Wholeness. The Totality playing, enjoying, Itself all the time. In the Eternal moment of Now.
For this expression, it is a” game” of catch-up. The small mind has the concepts from the various Teachings of Reality, NOW, it is delving into the Experience. The conundrum of existing within Space Time and the small body mind entangled, within, in its seeming self-importance, all built upon the foundation of Timelessness. The keys I have found, are 1.) disentanglement, 2.) simplicity, and 3.) letting go – as the most evident as this time, for me.
As in the Bhagavad Gita “In time …”.
Also, as in a given Affirmation, in a Naadi Palm Leaf reading, to me and it extends to all of us …
All is Good.
All is Well.
Excellent keys, Peter. The letting go leads to disentanglement, which leads to simplicity. Then we can see what is. 🙂
Love it! its beautiful how we/it is all intertwined into the perfect balance.
Agreed, Lee. It’s quite remarkable the degree of balance and orchestration in play to sustain the field of experience so we can evolve.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Thank you David.
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Hi David,
I was just thinking about how this could be represented through the body – the right brain (creative, spiritual, feminine) expressing these qualities through the left side of the body, while sitting *atop* the right side of the body being expressed by the left brain (logical, analytical, more physical) sitting atop *it*. Would be curious to hear your thoughts
You make a good point, Jenifer. Even the body reflects this, the brain being reversed from the body.
Of course, we can’t take this too far as the body is more complex than a simple duality. But we could say there are echos of reality right in our form.
Right, I thought about adding ‘at the surface’. Thank you, David