Nature Valley's Spirit
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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." This probably has something to do with the nondualistic world view of indigenous wisdom.
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 co-arising dipolar balance,
closure of a communication event,
word,
numeral,
monomial meme,
paradigm,
icon,
liturgy,
story,
song.
The nature of our rooted Valley
and crowned Mountain
balanced mind/body 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
restoring yin peace with yang 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 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 globally co-arising Common-Being;
as economic quid-pro-quo becomes wu wei normative
when all transactions aspire to grow
equitable and inclusive transactional 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....
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2015
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