Thanks for the question.
Apparently, the concept of Yin and Yang is much older than Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching, and Taoism. So, its connection isn’t something we can say belongs to one specific teaching or book.
It could be argued that Yin and Yang are associated with the I-Ching, which is older than the Tao Te Ching, but I’m not into arguing.
Yin and Yang are much more “important” to life than how they are usually described, such as, Yin = dark, still, silent, defensive etc, and Yang, its opposites, bright, movement, noise, and aggressive etc. And the teaching is that each have a little of the other in them.
But they point to something much deeper. They point to the experience of Awakening which shows that all is Yin, and Yang is simply an appearance of Yin. This is why, in the Tao Te Ching, there are references to Yin being more powerful than Yang, and practices such as “Guarding the Yin” are important to Taoists, if they understand its meaning.
I have spent the last hour recording a flow of information regarding yin. The two books I already published are leading to this third one about Yin and Yang, and the truth about Guarding the Yin. For me, it is the central root of a Taoist practice.
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