In “The Wisdom of Laotse,” Lin Yutang translates Laotse’s 6th poetic aphorism, probably rooted in ancient shamanic teachings about the nature of natural systems, with the title “The Spirit of the Valley.” This is curious to me (with no pretension of second-guessing Lin Yutang’s superb translation skills) because it seems like it is about “The Nature of Valleys.”

The Spirit of the Valley never dies.

It is called the Mystic Female.

    The Door of the Mystic Female

    Is the root of Heaven and Earth.

 

    Continuously, continuously,

    It seems to remain.

    Draw upon it

    And it serves you with ease.

(p. 64, Modern Library, 1948)

 

The Door/root toward Yin is reverseYang coincidental balance,

closure of a Tao event, word, nomial, meme, paradigm, icon, liturgy.

The nature of our rooted Valley is Balanced and Beloved

Tao Community.

 

This balance, harmony, or, in Buckminster Fuller’s metric vocabulary,

synergetic nature of Valley

regenerates the greatest quality of power

with the least amount of loss, dissonance, labor.

To draw upon natural Yang/Yin systemic balance

is to serve ourselves, each other, and Earth with ease,

with confluence

active peace with justice.

 

Taoism’s wu wei translates into laissez-faire

as proactive synergetic ecotherapeutic practice

of balancing full-throated and comprehended octaves

in energy and being and becoming full-color race and pace,

through longing toward belonging cooperatively together

interdependently economic communicators,

transactors,

within a going-global Climax Community.

 

Within this ecotherapeutic balance

of natural systemic permacultural design,

we generate free will to abstain from grasping willfulness and ego-aversion to dissonance

and loss.

This mutually shared free eco-will sometimes becomes culturally confused

with freedom to choose to do or become anything

to anyone

with anyone

above and beyond anyone

that we monoculturally and monopolistically decide is best

for Ego-Self,

for Others,

for of by SuperEco-logic Earth Design and Development.

 

Yet, does anyone doubt,

when all is finally said and done about freedom’s pilgrimage toward active peace,

we are mutually nothing but integrity of coincidental potential?

This Nature of Balancing Valley

is nothing but mutually synergetic potential.

If synergy in natural systemic regenesis

evolves synonymous with love in human nature’s systemic redemption,

then we have total freedom only to choose full-living

active peace on Earth’s Beloved Community,

diastolic justice-rooted rooting Valley.

 

The EarthTribe that roots together

flowers and flies and swims synchronously,

harmoniously,

confluently,

without inordinately confusing fear and dissonance and loss,

growing nature-spirit systemic balance of Yang+Yin,

out and in coincident,

free to purge our egos of grasping monoculturalism

grows freedom from aversion to absorption into

Zero-centric polyculturalism.

 

Ecological coincidence evaporates

as Id and SuperEco comprehend global coincidence of Common-Being;

as economic quid-pro-quo becomes wu wei normative

when all transactions aspire to grow

equitable and inclusive quid-pro-quo cooperation.

 

Law of Prime Systemic Relationship:

Spirit is to Nature

as (-)(-)coincidently implied shy Yin

snuggles pregnantly inside +natured Yang.

 

When going for Win-Win Yes,

let go with co-passionate double-negative-binding Lose-Lose No.

 

I Am

that Eco-Is Not-Not,

We Are

what evolves Not-Eco-Not,

I Am

That Not-Not….

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