Danielo Perez, MD, is a well-established Austin forensic pathologist. In this role, he has handled a wide range of cases for central Texas city and county governments that do not maintain their own medical examiner's offices. An area of longtime interest for Austin resident Dr. Danielo Perez is Eastern philosophy, and he had the opportunity to study East Asian languages and culture while attending Columbia University.
One of the fundamental Asian belief systems, Taoism underpins martial arts such as tai chi and bagua. Developed by ancient philosophers such as Lao-Tzu in the Tao-te-Ching, concepts such as yin and yang were developed in subsequent texts such as the Nei Ching. This system describes the universe as being formed of oscillations of yin and yang, as counterposed forces.
In traditional formulations, yin embodies the passive, resultant, and destructive processes of life, including those that cause death. Yang is associated with creative, active, and life generating processes that balances this force, with the relationship intertwined in a harmonic flow.
One example of this within a scientific context is the galvanic current flow, which hinges on movement toward and away from positive and negative poles. While each current flow has a distinct and separate expression, both are part of a greater interconnected flow and to lose one would be to extinguish the other.
This is reflected in the well known emblem of yin and yang, in which the two shapes of black and white inhabit a circular continuum, with each side containing a small circle representing the other, or opposing, life principle.
One of the fundamental Asian belief systems, Taoism underpins martial arts such as tai chi and bagua. Developed by ancient philosophers such as Lao-Tzu in the Tao-te-Ching, concepts such as yin and yang were developed in subsequent texts such as the Nei Ching. This system describes the universe as being formed of oscillations of yin and yang, as counterposed forces.
In traditional formulations, yin embodies the passive, resultant, and destructive processes of life, including those that cause death. Yang is associated with creative, active, and life generating processes that balances this force, with the relationship intertwined in a harmonic flow.
One example of this within a scientific context is the galvanic current flow, which hinges on movement toward and away from positive and negative poles. While each current flow has a distinct and separate expression, both are part of a greater interconnected flow and to lose one would be to extinguish the other.
This is reflected in the well known emblem of yin and yang, in which the two shapes of black and white inhabit a circular continuum, with each side containing a small circle representing the other, or opposing, life principle.
