taiwandeutscher wrote:機 Ji mechanics, really?
Incitement
Yeung wrote:So what is the pivoting mechanism between movement and quietness?
taiwandeutscher wrote:機 Ji mechanics, really?
Incitement
Bao wrote:
[When something] reaches its limit, it turns to its opposite. It's like a pendulum.
Taiji is:
Tai = "too much",
ji = "utmost point" (as much as, or as high as, anything can become)
Together it means that something reaches over its utmost point. Which means that it can't become more, so it turns to its opposite.
taiwandeutscher wrote:Coming from a sinological-philosophical background (Zhouyi studies), and as a non-native speaker of English, mechanics just sounds strange to me. Ji in classical Chinese philosophy is often the moving power of the universe (cosmic incitement), which never acts like a machine (mechanical in always the same way), but changes in whatever fashion we can imagine, is not consciously controlled, and so not mechanic. My faulty understanding of English?
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