The Taoist tradition believes that the feminine and male, the Yin and Yang are worthy of equal importance and necessity, indeed can not exist without each other. Very often, the practices of "long life" give extreme importance to attitudes that can be called "feminine" (welcome, to listen, not-doing, ...) and literature refers continuously to female figures (female mysterious, being female, mother, girl dark ...). In contrast, in the West, she was elevated to the same man until recently. Was excluded from the rites of initiation to the ancient wisdom as not worthy of the "knowledge".
initiations And if this exclusion was due to the fact that the woman does not need the wisdom that already possesses "inherent" knowledge? And if only humans need rituals to gain access to the mysteries of the world?
The woman is already, by its nature, in harmony with the universe (the harmony with lunar cycles, ...), Is closer to the root of heaven and earth, the non-being, is the mother of all being. All c'ò gives it an advantage over men. One advantage that they have over the centuries have tried to submit or cancel (witch, an ally of the devil, ...).
And if Lao Zi (Lao Tseu), the Old Boys, was a woman? Lao Zi, father of Taoism, a legendary character like Homer in the West, some historians say he never existed and that his writings are nothing but collections of the thought of this ancient philosophy. Lived for eighty years in the belly of the mother, has no father, as if she had been transmuted into him. As if only a woman can enjoy the nature of the TAO or a man who has grown so much his "feminine" becoming a "Moon Man".
For this post I was inspired by an article which appeared in Generation of Pol Charoy TAO No. 57 and various ideas are taken from " Taoism, the way women's knowledge " by F. Casaretto. Thank you both.
Paul Raccagni
