2. Comparison with Islam and East Asian religion
1. Common grounds between Islam and East Asian religion
Islam and East Asian religions have a lot in common though Islam is a transcendent religion and East Asian religions are inherent religions.
Islam and East Asian religions have the tradition of flourishing Yin (negative aspect of things)
Islam has a lot of oriental cultural elements for Islam is located in geometrical twofold position. Islam is regarded West in East Asia, but Islam is regarded East by the West. Though Christianity and Islam believes the same transcedental God in common, but Christianis living in the cold area worship hot Sun and Muslims living in the hot area worship cold Moon. For Yin, like Moon, circles and repeat, and have the regularity , Islam like East Asia have the tradition of daily repetent meditation and itinerary of the sacresd rites.
Islam like East Asia has the tradition to attach importance to moderation in all things.
The chief element of success that Islam prevails in west Asia overtaking Judaism and Christianity, is found in Islams's meditative character which Judaism and Christianity lacks. Islam sticks to mediation principle, so anyone can beliee Islam regardless of one's nation, race, sex, science. Islam's mediative character could integrate the different culture which were struggling with each other such as Persian, Rome, Judaism Emphasis on mediation in East Asia could also could maintain the harmony of three religion Confucianism-Buddhism-Taoism
Islam also has the inherent element to regard praxis as important
Islam also has always tolerated in quarrel with Christianity. Islam stress inherent pratice such as moral pratice and no idolatry Islam, formed from a pratical relaionship like a commercial transaction, underline practice shown as a theocracy law of sharia. Three religion Confucianism-Buddhism-Taoism also played a role of an unwritten rule in East Asia.
a cyclic view of the world like Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory
As is shown in that A.E. Lacoupêrie' s theory- Hwngdi, East Asianancestor came from Babilonia- was main stream of western Chinese history study 100 years ago, East Asia and Islam resembles each other deeply. The mathematics of ancient Babilonia were based on a sexagesimal system. Ibn Khaldun, Islam's most famous historian claimed an circular historical view , like Polinios in Rome , and Toynbee in England, contrary to an unilinear historical view. Ibn Khaldun's circular historical view looks similar to a theory of Chuyan in China , regarded as a inventor of history theory based on Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory
Actually the fact that Islam honor moon and the name of the Red Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea corresponds to Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory Muslim men wears white, which represent Metal, Yang contrary to Black, while Muslim women wears white, which represent Waterl, Yin contrary to White. The yellow color of sand in the dessert Muslims color complete color harmony based on Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory which consisted of red(fire), blue(wood), white(metal), black(water) and yellow(earth). Though it is not well-known, Zoroastrianism in Sassanid Persia builded a religional canon of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity. The difference between Islam and East Asia based on Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory is that East Asia with distinct four season emphasize the four seasons ' circulation while Islam respect Moon due to distinct day and night.
Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory is minimum system which can organize things mutually exclusively and collectively exhaustively. According to the relationst's perspectie that all things are relations, Five Elements only can be minimum system of mutal positive and negatie relation. Four and six cannot comprise such a MECE system. Therefore, According to the relationst's perspectie based on Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory, Yin-Yang and the Five Elements is Immanent.
Five Elements, working like energy, can be the concept of time-space. Things consisted of energy such as Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter in Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory Mixing the concept of energy and time-space, spring appears forewarding(推進), Summer-enhancement(發揚), Autumn-retirement(引退), Winter-cohesion(隱潛))
Religions are also categorized to Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and that adopts equally to Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and Islam. If Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory is adopted to religion, Confucianism, full of forewording energy, corresponds to Spring , Buddhism-Autumn ,Taoism, Islam-Winter,Christianity-Summer on the same way.
East Asia and Islam find a new collaboration way by means of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory. lslam and Taoism shares much in common. The reason Islam and East Asia needs each other is two of them lose their virtue lslam's over transcendism is apt to leaning toward fundamentalism,and East Asia 's over inherentism have a tendency to sting to mat lslam's over flourishing yin result in self-persistent , main culture change to be closed East Asia has been losing their religion to mammoism for a long time
The problem East Asia and Islam have in common is lack of circulation. Fail of circulation result in lost of openness of religion. Utilizing each other's merit can restore circulation
2. The difference between East Asian religion and Islam
East Asia, compared to Islam, has relatively longer nationalism state and breakthrough of religion strife tradition by Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory,
1. History longevity of nationalism state
At first, for longer nationalism state, East Asia, though unwellknown, has the longest history of nationalism state. The history of State of Europe have not passed yet 300 years, and State of Islam also have the history which have not passed yet 1,500 years since history of Islam starts when Islam outbreak.
a view of Religion based on Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory
East Asia have not nearly experienced religion strife throughout the long history. Religion , which occurred many strife in the West, have not stir strife in Kroea, China, and Japan. On the contrary, East Asia have gone through Political-Economical struggle. East Asia have a rich relligious diversity. The Korean, Chinese, Japnese dreams Taoism manner , educates in Confucian mode , died like Buddhist. Though long history, cyclic view of religion make few religious struggle.
Once regarded as a byword of superstition , East Asiancyclic world view. became competent new science paradigm The East Asia has the most distinctive four seasons in the world. The representitive season decides preference of Religion. Let's look into East Asiancyclic view of religion based on yin-yang wuXing theory.