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Posted by Steve on 11/11/2008, 4:56 pm, in reply to "Re: "The Spirit of Life" vs. "The Valley Spirit""
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: Here's a post from over at Nina's DIO Forum.
:
: I thought that it might help explain my
: feelings about Laozi's "Valley
: Spirit".
:
:
: Dear Nina,
:
: I cross posted about this subject, both
: here, and at 'Tao Speaks'.
:
: I hope that that's OK.
:
: I used to live in a place called "The
: River Valley".
:
: It was at the Southern end of The
: (Cherokee's) Trail of Tears.
:
: I first learned about the Valley Spirit
: here, and how the Valley could (spiritually)
: 'absorb' water (which of course is very near
: to Dao) which flowed from hundreds of miles
: away, from the highest part of the Rockies.
:
: Now the water did not stop there, but it
: caused a community to develop there, and
: offered itself to agriculture, and in turn
: to education, as a college community.
:
: It was a very Yin place, but it was also a
: very old Native American place of power.
:
: And where the Eastern Band of Cherokees
: crossed by ferry into what was then 'Indian
: Territory'.
:
: A hunting ground for the Osage, a fertile
: Valley for agriculture since before the
: White man came.......a kind of 'womb', a
: kind of 'spiritual vagina'.
:
: There was a sense of the Eternal in this
: Valley, that matched EXACTLY to the words of
: Laozi's 'Valley Spirit'.
:
: I know that this may sound strange, but this
: place "befriended me" because I
: held it in Honor.
:
: I STILL DO. And I miss it greatly.
:
: It knew that that I held it as a Sacred
: Place, both in my heart, and in my mind.
:
: And it was in a reciprocal in relationship
: to me, almost like a Lover.
:
: I hope that you understand what I'm saying
: here, it's not the easiest thing to
: describe, or talk about, but the land knew
: that I Honored it as "The Valley
: Spirit".
:
: It Nourished me like a child, and like a
: Lover, in return.
:
: Who can speak about things so deep that they
: lack words in the English language?
:
:
: Peace, gossamer
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Thanks, gossamer.
You give voice to your heart quite well.
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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