Your other posts prove you know nothing of the way of Tao. Nice try.

Spoken like a true master.

J

then I don't see how you can label yin as serenity and yang as courage. Yang here (if yin is serenity) would be arousal. SERENITY and COURAGE are too much alike to be seen as opposites. GOOD POST!

Thanks for the comment. What happens with most of these efforts to ground the abstract concepts in emotion is that the emotions capture one or another aspect but not the full picture. Here's another example to show how confusing it is:

In politics we say citizens have three choices: Exit voice and loyalty. In animal defense mechanisms we say there are three options. Flight, fight and fear. Notice these are three option systems, whereas Yin or Yang, and the serenity prayer systems are two option systems. The two option systems leave out the option of leaving. They assume you are staying in a relationship. So now lets map these systems onto each other.

Yin=serenity=fear=loyalty.
Yang=courage=fight=voice
Exit=flight

Now notice that you would never tend to associate serenity, fear and loyalty, but any of them can trigger a submissive response, where you say 'I'm cool with that. We'll do it your way.

Not to confuse things too much, there is a way in which yin and yang do amount to the same thing. To be yin with you, I have to be yang with myself. In other words if I'm going to surrender to your will, I have to subbordinate mine which takes work. Serenity takes work on myself.

Messy huh? But I still think it holds together.