The Water Element

The absolute nature: The Tao, tee Void, the no-thing from which everything arises
timeless. space-less

• Represents absolute Yin, absolute rest, passivity and receptivity)
  The first intention
• Symbolizes life and death. (destructive and creative potentiais)

The winter

• The stillness
• Sharp quiet of winter
• The earth as seed... our/jing … potential
• Conservation of resources: cessation of work

Water in nature: the Rhyam of water

• What are the qualities? The deepest depths to she shallowest trickles:
• Ocean metaphor
• "Water is the only Truth of wats:, and water is complete virtue"
• Should be moving if in health
• No boundaries,., dammed oy earth, mother is metal
• Echoes the Tao as the "source of all'" because it is in all things
  Wellness of creativity ... Ultimate source of creativity (beneath conscious awareness)

Water Constitution.

• Virtue: Wisdom, Zhi, "knowing without knowing," the “sage”
• Focus, concentration, direction of will … focus on shen on jing
• Awareness of internal resources (life thesis)
  Fantasy/recklessness: overactive mind and CNS
  Orthodoxy conservative frozen in fear … no evolution