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“The final thing that’s interesting about this symbol is a brilliant idea because Dao also means ‘the way’ and the way is the line between the two.

So even though these two things oppose each other in some sense there’s a continual dynamic interplay between them. But by the same token, if you’re in a place that’s orderly and predictable something can happen that casts you into a chaotic situation right away. The reason for that is the Daoists also recognised that chaos can turn to order at any moment, so a new order can rise out of a chaotic structure. “Another interesting thing about the yin yang symbol: The black paisley has a little white dot in it and the white paisley has a little black dot in it. It’s permanent, so it’s part of the existential landscape of human being. No matter where you go there are things you know and things you don’t know, and it doesn’t matter who you are. In fact they’re hyper real, because one of the things that defines real is that it’s permanent. “A typical person will look at this and think, “Well, those aren’t real.” They are real. “So in some sense these are symbolic representations of the most unchanging elements of being - the most real things. The reason for that is quite straightforward - wherever you go, and whenever you live, and whoever you are, each environment that you’re in is composed of things you understand and things that work the way that you expect them to, and things you do not understand and that can pull the rug out from under you at any moment. And for the Daoist being is made up of these two elements - order and chaos. Being is what you experience as a conscious creature. “Now, being is not the same thing as objective reality.

“The yin yang symbol is interesting for a variety of reasons, because the Daoists believe that the symbol represents “being.” It’s a symbol I’ve seen throughout my life but I’ve never heard it explained in this way. Afterward, as YouTube does, it led me to a related video showing one of his older university lectures where he shared an interpretation of the meaning behind the yin yang symbol. I stumbled upon one of Jordan Peterson’s talks on YouTube, Who Dares Say He Believes in God.