RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Equinox

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Victor Soﾍgen Hori

Document Summary

Temple of heaven: round because heaven is round and earth is square: tian heaven, shangdi an emperor. Is heaven somebody or something: part ancestor spirit: heaven shows its displeasure, part impersonal force: the cycle of the seasons. Son of heaven is the emperor, the king (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: lines in order: heaven, people and earth, the vertical line is the king who has to connect the 3 macro-micro coordination. Heaven gives its mandate to a virtuous person to rule. Ruler responsible to heave to rule virtuously. For the people: implicit right of rebellion if ppl thought that the ruler is corrupt, not fair, etc. Macrocosmic-microcosmic coordination heaven and earth have (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Cyclical change: yin always changing in yang and vice versa, things are constantly changing. You expect your life to follow the pattern the change you don"t try to resist to it. Non duality: yin yang complete each other.