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Some info I found on the Dharma logo:

The DHARMA Initiative symbol is based on the Ba-Gua, a wheel determining “alignments” in Feng-Shui, with its origins in the I Ching & Taoist thought. Though it was and is used primarily for geomancy, it has deep roots in mathematics & the true sciences, much as astronomy is a pseudoscience for the superstitious, but has its roots in astronomy. Note that the center contains the well-known yin-yang symbol, which in our DI symbol is divided by the swan neck. At the roots of Taoism, Buddhism & other East Asian faiths is the idea of mutually opposing things existing in balance—dualism. The relation of these faiths to LOST is nothing new—the number 108 is a sacred number to Buddhists.

The symbols surrounding are trigrams of kwae, composed of an undivided dash (yang) or a divided one (yin). Meanings are as follows:

yin-yin-yin (K’un) - earth - mother/receptive (lower fly of S. Korean flag)
yin-yin-yang (Kên) - mountain - third son/keeping still
yin-yang-yin (K’an) - water - second son/abysmal (upper fly)
yin-yang-yang (Sun) - wind - first daughter/gentle
yang-yin-yin (Chên) - thunder - first son/the arousing
yang-yin-yang (Li) - fire - second daughter/clinging (lower hoist)
yang-yang-yin (Tui) - lake - third daughter/joyful
yang-yang-yang (Ch’ien) - heaven - father/creative (upper hoist)

Also:
http://hownow.brownpau.com/archiv...dharma_initiative_and_the_ba_gua/
http://www.circle-of-light.com/fengshui/bagua.html

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so basically what your saying is that Dharma was based on east asian faiths and Dualism?

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That's interesting, but only the swan symbol has the ying-yang symbol in it, right?

I think so yeah. I'm not actually sure if I personally think it's to do with I-Ching and whatnot, just thought it was fairly interesting. Wink

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