The valley spirit never dies;
It is the woman, primal mother.
Her gateway is the root of heaven and Earth.
It is like a veil barely seen.
Use it; it will never fail.
Tao,6
The valley spirit never dies;. It is the woman, primal mother. Her gateway is the root of heaven and Earth.
Shakyamuni Buddha
Born thirty years ago
I've traveled countless miles
along rivers where the green rushes swayed
to the frontier where the red dust swirled
I've made elixirs and tried to become immortal
I've read the classics and written odes
and now I've retired to Cold Mountain
to lie in a stream and wash out my ears
Here we languish, a bunch of poor scholars,
Battered by extremes of hunger and cold.
Out of work, our only joy is poetry:
Scribble, scribble we wear out our brains.
Who will read the works of such men?
On that point you can save your sighs.
We could inscribe our poems on biscuits
And homeless dogs wouldn't deign to nibble.
I can't stand these bird songs
Now I'll go rest in my straw shack.
The cherry flowers are scarlet
The willow shoots up feathery.
Morning sun drives over blue peaks
Bright clouds wash green ponds.
Who knows that I'm out of the dusty world
Climbing the southern slope of Cold Mountain?
Dust, this life is lost in dust.
Like bugs, bugs in a bowl
we circle, daily, circle
unable to get out.
We're nothing like the gods, nothing.
Our sorrows never end, ever.
Years and months flow like water
when, all of a sudden, we're old.
The path to Hanshan's place is laughable,
A path, but no sign of cart or horse.
Converging gorges—hard to trace their twists
Jumbled cliffs—unbelievably rugged
A thousand grasses bend with dew,
A hill of pines hums in the wind.
And now I've lost the shortcut home,
Body asking shadow, how do you keep up?
My father and mother left me a good living;
I need not envy the fields of other men.
Clack-dack-my wife works her loom,
Jabber, jabber, goes my son at play.
I clap hands, urging on the swirling petals,
Chin in hand, llil:;ten to singing birds.
Who comes to commend me on my way of life?
Well, the woodcutter sometimes passes by.
Siddhartha Gautama
Who's the author? What's the title?
Wasn't there at least some Taoist influence even if it wasn't many people's primary religion? Like onmyoudou had Taoist influences I believe.
What would it even mean for the Japanese to not be Japanese?
>Like onmyoudou had Taoist influences I believe
Likely. Onmyodo itself means the way of Yin and Yang
No one intelligent can feel drawn to this bullshit. It doesn't mean anything, just pure garbage.
how would you know what garbage is, if you didn't know what non-garbage is anon? usefulness comes from what is there, profit comes from what is not there
Listen to Wayne Dyer reading it.
Don't try to analize it.
I gave a translation to him wholesale and that was his response, I doubt he has the capacity to receive regardless of who is reading it to him
I enjoy these, one of the only good things to have come from the degradation of feels guy
Why does this feel like the most degenerate thing on LULZ?
You tell me.
because there are girls who look just like that and they are lurking right now
there is no chance this board has girls.
half the ppl here are transgirls
>who look just like that
There are some very pretty trans girls out there, just look at /gif/ if you want proof.
>There are some very pretty trans girls out ther-ACK
trans women are not real women lmfao YWNBAW
Hello, speaking.
Japanese werent Taoist.
the Japanese werent Japanese either. Your point?
Isn't this image pretty clearly Japanese? Why post it to accompany an excerpt from a Chinese text?
Is jesus not a israelite? Why do Christians like him so much?
What does that have to do with it?
Taoism is not uniquely Chinese, I am American and I have heard of it? What does it matter what image is chosen to accompany a random selection of words? Are you sure you understand the Tao at all?
I'm not a taoist, I'm just pointing out that it seems like conflating different cultures.
This is weird how cultures mix over time. I had no idea anything like that ever happened
I'm aware taoism has spread to other cultures, but why a Japanese image in particular?
The short answer is because I wanted to.
The long answer is also because I wanted to.
Does this satiate your query?
Fair enough.
>Isn't this image pretty clearly Japanese?
No, it's a white girl
Japs have flat nose, swollen lips, slanted eyes and balding hair
>flat nose
plenty of europeans with that
>swollen lips
what
>slanted eyes
most europeans have small beady eyes
>balding hair
balding is most common among europeans and least common among east asians
It's a cartoon, she doesn't really look like a real human being of any race. But the clothing, hairstyle, and background are very clearly Japanese.
>hairstyle
Lmao no
How is it not?
Where's an interlinear version of the Dao?
ctext.org
I was thinking something more like this as it feels very useful in deciphering things.
Ctext can do that to, with mouseover.
cool
I think that verse has some potentially lewd connotations that aren't being considered with the root of heaven and earth going through her "door".
oh I definitely considered them
Another rendition with which to elaborate
The valley's deity dies not,
thus is it so called an enigma of the wifely kind.
Through this feminine mystery's opening goes what is thus so called Heaven and Earth's root.
Silkily and smoothly does it linger, never used harshly?
Maybe this is an observation about the way a horizon over a misty valley looks and whatever phenomena may be inferred thereby.
yeah I don't think so though