Sixth Chapter:
Tao Te Ching
The spirit that never dies
Is subtle and profound–
The source of all things, mysterious feminine — the Divine Mother.
The gateway of the Divine Mother
is the root of creation.
It is always present and unending.
Stay linked to its perfection.
Use it and you will never wear it out.
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As I understand it:
Subtle and profound Feminine creates continuously. [...]
Tao-te Ching
Chapter Five
Heaven and Earth do not discriminate.
They regard all things as straw dogs.
The sage is impartial. To him no one is especially dear.
He regards all people as straw dogs.
Between Heaven and Earth there is a space like a bellows!
Vacuous and inexhaustible — the more it is used, more it creates.
Keep to the center.
Sit quietly [...]
Tao-te Ching
Chapter Four
Tao is empty (like a bowl).
It may be used but its capacity is never exhausted.
It is bottomless, perhaps the ancestor of all things.
It blunts its sharpness,
It unties its tangles.
It softens its light.
It becomes one with the dusty world.
Deep and still, it appears to exist forever.
I do not know whose son it is.
It seems [...]