the yin and the yang of it all

i have recently been reading this book entitled "The Tao of Physics". written by some cambridge professor of particle physic, the book aimed to explore the parallelism between eastern mysticism (zen, buddhism, taoism) and modern science (recent advances in particle physics). more specifically, it explains how one relates and in some instances even supports the other. for a modernist society such as ours, this would hardly be believable. for ages, science and religion didn't even belong to the same sentence so much more as to stand on the same ground. is it really that hard to believe that somehow everything exist in harmony as the book claims? a balance between good and evil; of light and dark; of yin and yang.

(this part of the post was deleted by cookie monster because this part is what elmo liked best. since i didn't want her to get what she likes, i decided to just delete it. i had reservations posting this part of the post to begin with. so here goes nothing. )

this is esentially the same concept behind the idea that "opposites attract". while we try to lean towards someone we have something in common with, we usually end up with the opposite. i think this is because we try to see in others what we can't find in ourselves. come to think of it, the friend (or more appropriately, ex-friend) i was earlier talking about had totally nothing in common with me. but hey! it's all in the past. with him living on his side of the planet, and i,on mine. perfect balance of poles.

the book may be right after all. everything could exist in harmony. we have just to choose them to be.

(Author's Note: the book is unavailable in philippine bookstores. try ordering from the internet. i'll try to make a review when i make significant progress with the book)

cryola popcorn smirks @ 11:10 PM