They complement taiji as pure energy to pure form, thus expressing another dimension of the li-qi complementarity.
I could call everything the Colonel said and did “fine.” I could try to pretend that I didn’t care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can’t just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I’m sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth.” – Page 172
FINALISTS:
Taiji and wuji are opposed, apparently contradictory, expressions. Signifying the most basic complementarity, namely, that between yin and yang . taiji is the most primitive and original form of li. It is quintessential li . or elementary form (patterning). Signifying something unbounded and free of polarity, wuji describes the unformed primal qi whence yin and yang emerge through the taiji impulse. It is quintessential qi . pure potentiality. Hence, Zhou Dunyi’s proposition, “ Wuji er taiji ” (Free from polarity, and yet the supreme polarity), expresses the identity of opposites ( li and qi ) that gives rise to the initial impulse of phenomena. [23 ] In the next step of this impulse, yin and yang are formed. They complement taiji as pure energy to pure form, thus expressing another dimension of the li-qi complementarity.
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