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Key Takeaway: The 'Supreme Ultimate' or 'Great Pivot' in Chinese philosophy — the ultimate source and ground of all reality from which yin and yang arise.

The 'Supreme Ultimate' or 'Great Pivot' in Chinese philosophy — the ultimate source and ground of all reality from which yin and yang arise. First articulated in the Yijing (I Ching) and systematically developed by Song dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhou Dunyi (周敦颐), Taiji is the undifferentiated unity that precedes the division into yin and yang, the 'ten thousand things,' and the entire phenomenal world.

Within the Chinese philosophical tradition, as recorded in the classical texts that have shaped East Asian thought for millennia, The 'Supreme Ultimate' or 'Great Pivot' in Chinese philosophy — the ultimate source and ground of all reality from which yin and yang arise.

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The 'Supreme Ultimate' or 'Great Pivot' in Chinese philosophy — the ultimate source and ground of all reality from which yin and yang arise..

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First articulated in the Yijing (I Ching) and systematically developed by Song dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhou Dunyi (周敦颐), Taiji is the undifferentiated unity that precedes the division into yin and yang, the 'ten thousand things,' and the entire phenomenal world..

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The 'Supreme Ultimate' or 'Great Pivot' in Chinese philosophy — the ultimate source and ground of all reality from which yin and yang arise..

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