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