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Tai Chi (or taiji):

      The insights from old Chinese classic "I ching (or The Book of Changes)" about the genetic materials, origin and evolution of life --From recent advances in biology we know that the basis of evolution is self organization.  There is no master plan.  Conversely, evolution does not happen by random chance. Still, there are constraints.  The self organization is structured and shaped by basic laws. From this perspective self organization can be understood as the capacity to create information based on the Mandelbrot vector 0 -> :  z -> z² + c  considered as a continuous creative process.  As we have seen the key to this process is spontaneous improvisation in the moment.  This means returning to Zero, to pure awareness, and acting from there.

      This whole field of spontaneous creativity and returning to zero was thoroughly explored for millennia by Chinese thinkers.  In Chinese, pure awareness is called Wu Chi.  It is the infinite, formless place just before all meaning and form.  The place from which all creativity springs. WU CHI, emptiness, is symbolized by the empty circle, and TAI CHI, plenitude, is symbolized by the ancient Chinese yin/yang fractal:

      WU CHI is pure attention, zero emptiness, corresponding to deep sleep. TAI CHI is one, containing the fractal dichotomy of Yang and Yin. Yang is time, Yin is space. Yang is characterized by the circle. Yin by the right angle. Symbolically Yang is a straight line, Yin is a broken line.

Yang

Yin 

      In CHI, Yang is the direction upwards, Yin downwards. Yang is the closed circle, Yin is the open angle. Yang is clockwise, Yin counter-clockwise. Yang is hard, resistant and tense, Yin is soft, yielding and relaxed. Logically the two lines represent a kind of binary code and can as well be noted down by the numerical emblems 1 and 2. But the only inherent purpose of this code is to formulate the meaning of its own two units as a relation of two functional patterns or sequences, i.e. as the "two rituals". This formulation takes place in analogous steps of increasing differentiation.

      In the Great Commentary of the I Ching the initial construction of the basic synthesis is described as follows: "Inherent to the changes is the absolute polarity (taiji). It generates the two rituals (liangyi). The two rituals generate the four images (sixiang). The four images generate the eight trigrams (bagua). The eight trigrams can further generate the 64 hexagrams, and we know there are 64 codons in the universal genetic code. The next problem is: which nucleic acid corresponds to which I Ching symbol?

      THE FOUR EMBLEMATIC SYMBOLS OR DIGRAMS

6	8	9	7	"Ritual" numbers
OLD YIN	YOUNG YIN	OLD YANG	YOUNG YAN
THYMINE	CYTOSINE	ADENINE	GUANINE	Nucleic acids
\PYRIMIDINES/		\PURINES/

      Note that the basic structure of the pyrimidine nucleic acids has 6 atoms and that of the purine nucleic acids has 9. The Old Yang symbol has a "ritual number" of 9 and Old Yin's ritual number is 6. Therefore I assign the yang symbols to the purines and the yin symbols to the pyrimidines.

And below is an analogous table proposed by Katya Walter:

      For the original sources used here and further readings, please check following links:

1. An Ancient and Occult Genetic Code http://ddi.digital.net/~krakowss/code01.htm

2. I Ching (Ho Tu and Lo Shu), Genetic Code, Tai Hsuan Ching, and the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 VoDou Physics Model http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/ichgene6.html

3. The Basic System of Evolution Logics According to the Book of Changes http://www.lunarlogic.de/Frank/table_of_contents.htm

4. The I Ching & the Genetic Code: The Hidden Key to Life. Martin Schonberger, ASI Publishers Inc. New York N.Y., 1979.