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The Mysterious Female

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Those who know the valley spirit by having penetrated the immaterial aperture of the mysterious female have no sexual identity. How then could the nonpsychological spirit of the heart of heaven and earth be categorically differentiated by outsiders clinging to descriptions?

 

How does one describe that which has no location?

 

The puzzle is without remainder, only entertained by the doubts of the human mentality.

 

The valley spirit is where potential is activated; where change originates.

 

The mysterious female is a metaphor. Mystery is movement: yang. Female is stillness: yin. Neither yin or yang, East Mountain walks on water.

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Standing ready by the gate and door of the Mysterious Female, observe life and death. This is knowing the pivot of change.

 

It is not only in mystical experience. When one can be still, one can witness return in everyday ordinary cycles of yin and yang.

 

When one sees the Mysterious Female, one attains the power of the center. Observing stillness and movement, one is not subject to change. This is because the Mysterious Female is the locus of change where the physical and psychological elements do not adhere; where change originates; where adepts steal potential.

 

When you see the the Mysterious Female and attain the pivot of creation, you attain it forever.

 

When you stand ready by the gate and door of the aperture of the Mysterious Female, you actually see the world go sailing on by through its aperture as if caught by the power of its own momentum like a careening astronaut projecting out into the vast void of space. It is kind of sad, in a way. But you're not! hahahahhahahhaaa!!!❤❤❤

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The task is the "door". The gate is the opening and closing of the Mysterious Female.

 

The Art of War states that victory is up to the enemy and that the general must choose the ground of death in order to live, find the place of victory, and wait there for the enemy to fulfill its fate.

 

Adepts know the gate and door of the Mysterious Female and wait there for the inevitable to arrive.

 

Here are two terms not customarily used: inner and outer Mysterious Female.

 

The outer Mysterious Female refers to the balanced combination of flexibility and firmness, considered necessary to achievement of a harmonious personality.

 

The inner Mysterious Female is ordinarily considered identical to the "valley spirit", which stands for open awareness, the image of the "valley" representing openness, the image of "spirit" representing awareness.

 

This from Thomas Cleary's notes to his translation of ancient alchemic poems of female adepts in Immortal Sisters — Secret Teachings of Taoist Women. 1989, North Atlantic Books

 

ed note: add the comments above the quote attributed to Thomas Cleary.

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