The Real Meaning of the Yin-Yang Symbol and Why It Is Important

Article Highlights:

• A key to higher advancement
• What is the Central Path?
• Accelerated ascension

Dear Dancing With Balance,

The Yin Yang symbol represents balance, as most of us know. And it’s tempting to say “we get it, we’ve known that for a long time, no need to go on about it.” But let’s go further, let’s think about it just a little more. We’ll be glad we did.

Yin Yang. That’s God, in a nutshell. God as a dance of exquisite balance, in the balancing and blending of the opposites. Black and white, summer and winter, plus and minus. God in the movement of masculine and feminine, god and goddess balanced.

Balance is of the utmost importance if you are interested in the higher levels of spiritual advancement. To reach these, self-mastery is paramount. You don’t get that without balance. It is key.

On the path that this symbol represents, you use both your mind and heart to learn about the responses that are male and those that are female, those that are dark and those that are light, those that are elevated and those that are not, and so forth. You experience all these, as you are meant to.

Doing this, you ultimately learn to speak, think, feel, and react only along the Central Path, the path of wisdom – you become balanced in your responses. When you achieve this to a high degree, that’s when you’ve mastered all of the energy in creation. Pause a minute, breath that in, it’s profound.

Most people are either too mental or too emotional, too aggressive or too passive. The opportunity is to take the best of each opposite, the Yin with the Yang, and integrate their best into how you think and act and feel – and to then behave accordingly.

That’s when your spiritual path goes quantum. When you learn to walk the Central Path. That’s when your growth really accelerates and you elevate rapidly. Which is what most people are hoping for, right?

We can say that pretty much anything that keeps us swinging off to the right or veeering over to left is simply our own tendencies toward too much. Too much this and too much that, too much food or drink, too much gossip and judgment, too much doubt.

All this too-much-ness amounts to the many ways of not taking mastery seriously, goofing around, thinking there’s plenty of time. Forgetting about balance and the Central Path.

The Central Path is not one of bland moderation, nor it is one of perfection. It is not even a path of trying not to be “too much” of anything. It is one of balance gained by dancing with the opposites.

It is a path of continuous movement – the balancing and blending of the opposites. The Central Path is a dedication to the art and dance of balance. That means there’s a lot of movement on this path – we call this movement course-correction. That’s how we take mastery and balance seriously.

We commit to the art of balance, practicing the movement of course-correction by blending and merging the opposites. Doing this we become better and better about holding steady in that, without feeling like it’s all too much and we need to take some time off. That’s spiritual maturity.

An important note here, though, because I can feel our tendency to get too serious about this, hehe. Dedication is always balanced by levity and joy. Keeping that in mind, let’s go a little further toward understanding what Yin Yang means to you, to me, personally.

Here’s something very interesting to think about. When you master balance, others don’t derail you, nor do events, at least not for long. You can stay the course through difficulties. Imagine what that means to all your relationships! Imagine the ease it would bring to your life!

In fact, the more elevated Masters choose what they think every moment of the day, they choose how they feel every moment of every day. They choose what they do all day long too. NOTHING chooses for them. In other words they choose the path of power. There is amazing promise in that.

If tv capsizes you, it is tv that is the master. A friend told me that her teacher taught his students that if tv gets you too out of kilter, watch more and practice balance until that tv doesn’t control you. That’s really something to consider, whether about tv or not. You don’t have to let things capsize you. When you don’t get caught in those negative waves, you are mastering balance.

However, in these times I think there are enough challenges coming at us to give us plenty of practice, we don’t need to seek it out. No need to watch tv we really don’t want to watch, or unnecessarily spend time with people who are extremely challenging. But the understanding that we can, in fact, come to master these is priceless.

The Ultimate Freedom

No one can ruin your energy, or the energy in your home or work or life – not unless you choose that. It’s not about them, it’s about you and your choice. You may feel that’s a high bar, but I think it’s a very, very wonderful thing to know.

It’s like coming upon a road sign that says, ‘Freedom that way.’ If you think about it, we’re talking about the ultimate freedom. Balance is the ultimate freedom. And the path of ascension is defined by balance.

Take a moment right now. Look closely at the Yin Yang symbol pictured above. It’s the t’ai chi, the perfected balance of opposing forces. Look deeply into it. Let it sink into you, finding a place centered between your eyebrows. Hold that symbol there, at the third eye, let it integrate. Feel it begin to pulse.

Bring the image of this symbol forward in your mind’s eye whenever you’re struggling to right yourself. It will help you walk the path of balance with greater mastery, and accelerate your progress. It actually carries the energy of perfected balance in the face of opposing forces.

Balance in the face of opposing forces. It’s not just balance when the water’s calm, it’s balance in a storm as well. That’s what this symbol carries. And that’s what a symbol is for, it carries the energy of profound universal truths. It is an active and factual aid, it assists, it really does assist. That’s what a true symbol does. Let the power of the t’ai chi symbol, the Yin Yang, work for you.

T’ai chi, the perfected balance of opposing forces. That’s something that is possible. It is well within your reach. You might even say it’s a big part of what you’re here for. It’s the symbol of achieving the higher path and carries the energy of balance that is necessary to do that.

Walking the path of balance in the face of opposing forces is a truly wonderful, freeing, joyful pilgrimage. So carry on, it’s a very celebratory path, dear Pilgrim.

Walking with you in balance and love,
Mayet MaHulili Leilani