The Doctrine of the "Mysterious Female" in Taoism

Evgueni A. Tortchinov . The Doctrine of the Mysterious Female in Taoism.The valley spirit never dies-it is called the mysterious female.The gate of the mysterious female is called the root of heaven and earth..Let's look at the child of the Mysterious female of all under the heaven..A large state is like a low-lying estuary, the female of all under heaven.He knows not the joining of male and female, yet his penis is aroused.Taoism proclaims that a human being is nothing more than an inseparable psychosomatic unity.It appears to me to offer a key to the understanding of the most essential features of Taoism.Great Absence changed itself into three pneumata: Mysterious, Original and Principal.But the semantics of this contemplation in Shamanism or Taoism are quite different than in Buddhism.