Yin and Yang describes

 Isaiah 45:7 
"I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create EVIL: I the LORD do all these things".

     In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
Many tangible dualities (such as light and dark, fire and water, expanding and contracting) are thought of as physical manifestations of the duality symbolized by yin and yang.

This original Chinese concept of YinYang is not religious and it is very different from the good versus evil duality found in most religions.
In the philosophy of Yin Yang, the idea is not for Yin or Yang to dominate; the ideal state is achieved when the two forces are balanced in their transformations.
Yin and Yang is a fundamental concept of duality and opposites, together being ONE.

The concept of yin and yang is not complicated and can be applied in the practical world.
Opposites are found in all things... together forming life energy, the Qi (also known as Chi and Ki in Chinese philosophy).

They believe that balance between these two opposites is the key to a healthy state of life energy... and health.
The idea of Qi (Chi) suggests that Qi is the basic substance that makes up the universe.
All matter in this universe is born of the transformation of Qi - from Yin to Yang and from Yang to Yin.
It is not an abstract theory, but can be perceived through its diverse forms of existence.

In the natural world everything contains these two opposite components.
They not only oppose each other, but also contain each other – one cannot exist without the other – coexisting and interdependent – always complementing each other.

In traditional Chinese medicine all symptomatic diagnoses are based on the philosophy of this principle, the two forces that control the running of the universe.

The Yin usually represents the feminine side of nature, encompassing darkness, tranquility, expansion, depth, cold and wetness.
The moon and water are Yin elements.

The Yang represents the masculine principle, encompassing light, activity, height, contraction, heat and dryness.
The heaven, the sun and fire are Yang elements.

Yin is the force that causes things to expand and rise, Yang causes things to contract and descend.
In the spirit of restoring proper balance, some rules of treatment have been established by applying this concept especially in medical :

“if cold - warm it”;

“if hot cool it”;

“if deficient augment it”;

and “if excessive smaller or eliminate it.”

Also:

“in Yang diseases treat Yin”

and “in Yin diseases treat Yang.”

In a Zoroastrian perspective, the one about darkness is being perceived as a lack of sunlight - we noted the beginnings of a concept where one aspect of a paired or coupled element of existence - an existential pair - was described as a negation of the other rather than as an unrelated independent existence.
If you wish, one aspect was described as an anti-thesis of the other.

Conceptually their is a critical difference between light-darkness duality and light no-light duality.
The former may be perceived as the duality of two independent forces while with the latter duality, light is the force while no-light is entirely dependent on the presence or absence of the former. Light banishes darkness.
This concept has an important practical manifestation in the wisdom-lack of wisdom duality.

In Zoroastrianism, ignorance is seen as a lack of wisdom - one also described as the darkness of the mind. Wisdom, on the other hand, is seen as the light of the mind - a form of enlightenment.
The ascendancy of one automatically results in the decline, perhaps even a subordination, of the other. A good wise mind is depicted in images as one with a halo of light around it - called the farr.

Chinese yin-yang and Zoroastrian dualism have points of congruence and points of div
ergence. Nevertheless, understanding one can help develop an understanding of the other - and each can, yes, 'shed light' on the concept of existential dualism. Metaphorically speaking, what existed before the shedding of light was an absence of the light of understanding.

In Zoroastrianism, the metaphor of the duality of light and no-light is all pervasive. It is even used to develop an understanding of the divine for divine spiritual light is one that casts no shadow - the spiritual light is a-dui, not-dual.

A typical difference between Eastern and Western (religious) thinking is mostly about options.

Western thinking believes in choosing either Option A or Option B depending on an evaluation function.

Eastern thinking believes in holding both options in balance - the concept of Yin and Yang like boldness is the middle (balance) between cowardice and violence.
Love is the middle between hatred and pampering.
Faith is between unbelief and presumption.

Christian living is holding balance between relying on God and man's effort.
We have
Option A: "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" Phi 2:12.
Option B: "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." Phi 2:13
Option A - we do the work. Option B: Let go and Let God.

This duality or dichotomy can be seen in the Bible too (Ecclesiastes 3).
1 .There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2. a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3. a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4. a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5.a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6. a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7. a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8. a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

Or in Genesis chapter -

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

This is very similar to one basic interpretation of "yin and yang" as "heaven and earth".

God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
And God saw that the light was good.
And God separated the light from the darkness.
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night."
And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day.

This is also similar to the interpretation of "yin and yang" as "dark and light".

Another typical difference between Eastern and Western is the way it interpreted religious scriptures or philosophy -taking things too literally – particularly religious texts (maybe because we have been programmed and conditioned that way).
It can be a problem as it creates irresolvable conflicts between communities and points of view.
And also closes one's mind from critical analysis and not able to unlock the sacred hidden meanings and mysteries of the universe and everything in it.
For example, the creation story is understood as metaphorical.
Same is the case with talking snake, Balaam's talking donkey, talking burning bush of Moses, flying horse or chariots ect. This not only enables us to turn our minds to seeking to understand the underlying and beautiful meanings of the text – it also removes the disunifying dynamic.

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