Daodejing Part Six

LYRICS: In the hollow lies the breath unseen, Mother of all that has ever been. She moves not, yet the rivers flow, She speaks not, yet the seedlings grow. Low she dwells, beneath all sound, The root of sky and fertile ground. Valley Spirit, soft and deep, Hold the silence, let it keep. Never dying, never done, Stillness births the rising sun. No form, no shadow, no command, Yet mountains rise by her open hand. She toils not, yet all is made, Her light unseen, her power laid. Between the gates of dark and bright, The world exhales her endless night. Valley Spirit, soft and deep, Hold the silence, let it keep. Never dying, never done, Stillness births the rising sun. Call her nothing, still she stays, The breath beneath a thousand ways. Say she’s gone — and life appears, Her pulse is time through countless years. Empty womb of earth and air, The Way abides forever there. Valley Spirit, soft and deep, Hold the silence, let it keep. Never dying, never done, Stillness births the rising sun. Valley Spirit, soft and deep, Hold the silence, let it keep. Never dying, never done, Stillness births the rising sun. DAODEJING PART SIX: The valley spirit dies not, aye the same; The female mystery thus do we name. Its gate, from which at first they issued forth, Is called the root from which grew heaven and earth. Long and unbroken does its power remain, Used gently, and without the touch of pain.