Balanced Phase
Yin and Yang can be seen as the two poles of a cycle. The Yin is
the withdrawing, storing, nutritive stage and the Yang is the
expanding, exuberant, active stage. The Yin phase can be further
described as consisting of two major segments, namely the early
Yin phase and the late (or full blown) Yin phase. Yang can
likewise be divided into and early and late phases.
These four are the cardinal phases: Wood is early yang, Fire is
full yang, Metal is early yin, and Water is full yin. But there
is another aspect which in Chinese philosophy is absolutely
essential to the understanding of the system, and that is
balance. Without balance in a system, it would soon fall apart.
Thus the great sages described a fifth element, which is in fact
balance. The Chinese called this fifth elemental factor Earth.
The Earth element represents the balance and harmony within a
system that is actually responsible for the integrity of the
system as a whole. Earth is in the center, representing the
pivotal, balancing, unifying factor of the whole system. Earth
should thus be present at all times, because the system should
always be balanced, albeit dynamically.
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