The Han Synthesis
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Five Phases
Yen and yang are not mysterious things at all. They're the thoughts of very practical people who use these concepts for all kinds of everyday purposes. If you look at the human body, you can say that its organs provide a yin substrait which enables activities to take place. Like the stomach has to have certain yin powers just to be there and ready to digest. But when it's digesting, then it's in its yang phase, and so on. And so so it gives you practical guidance. You see, the five phases are a more complicated and sophisticated way,. again, of looking at processes by dividing them into these five stages. In chinese, water
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