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6. Valley God

[Chapter 6 / English Translation] - Click the line to watch the related videos.
Valley God exists any time anywhere.

This is called Dark Depth Female.

The Gate of Dark Depth Female is called the root of heaven and earth.

With no limit, it always stays here.

However much you use it, you will never drain it.


Rapid Decoded
All the space is as empty as a valley.

It is the screen for your hologram. As the valley of a female body accepts the peak of a male body, the emptiness accepts your hologram.

Tao the fundamental energy is the source of your hologram. To use the energy as efficiently as possible, you have to have no resistance. You should stay as passive as you can. This is the way you use Dark Depth Female.

Tao exists without time and space.

Tao has no limit.


Videos

- 6-1 Valley God
- 6-2 Dark Depth Female
- 6-3 The root of heaven and earth
- 6-4 No limit
- 6-5 No drain
- 6-6 Ikkyu's funny dirty love poem


Contents
-6a. Tao Te Ching's key Chinese Characters
        谷神 Valley God = 玄牝 Dark Depth Female. Valley God is often called "Valley spirit", too, since 神 means both.

-6b. Male and Female
        Yin and Yang, man and woman; these dichotomies exist to make us forget them.

-Crazy Cloud - Ikkyu's love poems [Practical Uses]
        This extraordinary Japanese Zen priest, who is supposedly an illegitimate child of an emperor, composed lewd, lecherous, and controversial poems. Some of them are satires against his fellow hypocrite Zen monks. Others are simply odes of love and lust.


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-Country. Femininity and country in Lao Tzu's way.

-Laughable. "When a low man hears about Tao, he laughs out loud", says Lao Tzu.

-Uncarved block. When Tao (="an uncarved block") scatters, it becomes holograms (=vessels, =the world).





Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞Women are goddesses, well, at least, in Japan. In this floating world people often call their wives "Yama no kami 山の神", which means the goddess of the mountain. The most important deity there is Ama terasu o o mi kami 天照大神. The name is translated as "The great goddess who lights up Heaven". The center of the universe is female. There are male characters who try to raise a girl to be their perfect wife in Lady Murasaki's «The Tale of Genji» 紫式部「源氏物語」 and Junichiro Tanizaki's «Naomi / Odd obsession» 谷崎潤一郎「痴人の愛」. It is a pious act of female worship. They don't have to be a lady. Being female is more than enough to be worshiped.
  1. Tao

 2. Hologram

 3. The floating world Ukiyo

 4. Play

 5. Gate

 6. Dark Depth

 7. Dark Depth Female

 8. Do nothing

 9. Body soul and Spirit soul

10. You and non-you

11. Yin Yang circle

12. No judgement

13. Resistance

14. Satori

15. Act without acting

16. Colour

(Last modified: 23 October 2011)