第六章 谷神不死

谷神①不死，是謂玄牝②。玄牝之門，是謂天地根。綿綿③若存，用之不勤④。

名詞解釋：

谷: 形容虛空

神：形容不測(cè)的變化。

牝：指鳥獸雌性，陰性事物

玄牝：形容“道”的不可思議的生殖力

綿綿：冥冥無形象，連續(xù)不斷的樣子。

不勤：不勞倦，不窮盡。

通篇解釋：

虛空不定的變化是永不停竭的，這就是生育萬物的神秘莫測(cè)的總根源。微妙的母體之門，就是天地生成的根源。它綿綿不絕地存在著，作用無窮無盡。

引申擴(kuò)展：

1、“玄牝之門”的概念在當(dāng)今該如何理解？

a.字面理解。

牡為雄性鳥獸，引申為陽(yáng)性事物。牝?yàn)榇菩曾B獸，引申為陰性事物。玄牝之門實(shí)指玄妙的陰性生殖力，不停地繁衍生命力。所以中國(guó)創(chuàng)世神話流傳的是女媧造人，我們稱呼長(zhǎng)江黃河為母親河，稱呼地球?yàn)榈厍蚰赣H。這個(gè)陰性的力量在道德經(jīng)中反復(fù)出現(xiàn)。就好比今天時(shí)下流行以物理量子振動(dòng)頻率來解釋宇宙的運(yùn)作一樣。人們也喜歡稱地球的磁場(chǎng)運(yùn)動(dòng)為母頻振動(dòng)。當(dāng)個(gè)人能把自身的振動(dòng)頻率向母頻振動(dòng)靠攏連接的話，那他就搭到了萬物起伏變化的脈搏，也就能所謂預(yù)見未來的發(fā)展趨勢(shì)。

b.位置理解。

玄牝這一概念除了在《道德經(jīng)》中是作為大道的門戶而存在。是指在“無”的狀態(tài)之中。無的狀態(tài)無處不在，充盈于整個(gè)宇宙中。無中生有，有又變無。所以是不可見的。

玄牝在《悟真直指》中也有關(guān)于其位于人體位置的描述。“谷神之動(dòng)靜，即玄牝之門也。這個(gè)門在人身為四大不著之處，天地之正中，虛懸一穴，開闔有時(shí)，動(dòng)靜自然，號(hào)之曰玄關(guān)一竅，又號(hào)之曰眾妙之門。

c.對(duì)應(yīng)理解。

雖然大道的玄牝之門不可見，但他與人身上的玄牝還是互相連通印證的。用當(dāng)今流行的術(shù)語(yǔ)解釋就是宇宙全息論。即指任何一個(gè)小物體在物質(zhì)、結(jié)構(gòu)、能量、信息、精神、功能等方面上都能較大程度的折射反映出宇宙的同等狀態(tài)變化。 就如古語(yǔ)：一葉知秋一樣。一片葉子的變化都源于天地的牽連。

人通過冥想運(yùn)功等方法，產(chǎn)生意識(shí)思維的變化，從而形成陰陽(yáng)氣息的走位，再而牽連到肉體的走位，肉體的走位牽連到物質(zhì)實(shí)相的變化，進(jìn)而大到宇宙的變化。只要人體氣息能準(zhǔn)確貫穿在這玄牝一竅，即可觸發(fā)大道中的玄牝之門，這個(gè)綿綿無窮盡的生命源泉也就可能被激活，永葆青春也即將不是奢望。

Chapter 6

The Valley Spirit never dies

It is named the Mysterious Female.

And the doorway of the Mysterious Female

Is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang.

It is there within us all the while

It never runs dry.

Extension:

1、How to understand concept “the Mysterious Female”in contemporary?

A、Literal interpretation

The Mysterious Female means female’s reproductive capacity that bring the WAY. So NV WA in Chinese mythology creates human beings by clays. So we call the Yangtze River & Yellow River as mother river, and the earth as mother earth. This female’s power is often quoted from the Tao Te Ching. The same as we call the earth vibration as mother frequency which is the popular quantum theory to explain the universe working. When the person link his frequency with the mother frequency, he touches all things frequency just that he can foresee the future.

B、Location

The Mysterious Female is the doorway of the WAY. It is everywhere fulling of

the universe. It is made out of nothing, then nothing makes all. So we can’t see this Mysterious Female.

In 《Wuzhen Pian》we can find concept“The Mysterious Female”is located in human body. “The doorway of the Mysterious Female is where the Valley Spirit runs. It is suspent in the center of the inner body. AS like acupuncture points in the middle of the heaven and earth. It sometimes open and close in nature movement. It is the gate of all Secret Essences.”

C、Interrelated understanding

Although we can’t see the Mysterious Female in the WAY, it is related with the body. It can be proved by the cosmic hologram theory. It means that any small object can reflect the same state change of the universe in a large degree in terms of matter, structure, energy, information, spirit, function and so on. As the old saying goes: a leaf knows the autumn. The change of a leaf originates from the connection of heaven and earth.

People use meditation or breathing exercise to produce the change of the conscious mind, then a Yin and Yang of breath run, then body run, so that it affects the universe in the physical reality. As long as the body breath accurately through the Mysterious Female point, it can trigger this doorway of the WAY.The life of endless source also can be activated, the eternal youth will not be wild hope.