Anonymous ID: eb5fec Nov. 19, 2023, 9:39 p.m. No.19946428   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Separate the Clear from the [turbid].

Highest discernment necessary.

Be wise surgeons.

 

In traditional Chinese cosmology, ‘clear’ and ‘turbid’ are the two fundamental qualities initially emerging from undifferentiated primordial matter. That which was a unified whole separates.

The clear, which is light, subtle and inclined to rise, dissipates, expands, and moves. The turbid is heavy, thick, and inclined to settle; it stays in place, concentrates and congeals. The movement of the clear is yang and forms Heaven. The turbid is yin and Earth.

Clear and turbid, thus, form a yin–yang pair. Opposite yet complementary, they exist neither in isolation nor as pure terms: they are relative qualities within a process. Nothing can be definitively qualified as exclusively Yin or Yang, solely clear or turbid.

The ‘clear and turbid’ couple is found in different contexts and levels in Chinese medicine. The air of Heaven we inhale is light and without form. It is clear compared to the turbid heavier, denser food we take from the Earth.

Understanding what is clear and what is turbid always depends on the context.

https://www.tcm.ac/courses/clear-and-turbid/?v=88588bacf0da#learndash-course-content

(italics mine)