In harmonizing your male and female to embrace the One, can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the Way.

In tenderly tuning your breath, can you become supple as a newborn babe?

In polishing your mystic mirror, can you purify it to see nothing but the light?

In loving and leading the people, can you do it without imposing your will? Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course?

Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things? When your light shines forth, can you ignore it with equanimity?

Can you practice non-interference? When the Gate of Heaven opens and closes, can you play the part of the Female?

Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no desire of the fruits, leading and not trying to control: this is called the supreme Mystic Virtue.

Tao Te Ching V:10

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Apothetic knowledge is the mystical way of knowing. It is in not knowing, that all can be known. It is by naming and defining that we fool ourselves that we know and then keep staring at these imperfect definitions as if they be the Truth. It is not in cognitive knowing that we meet the Tao, it is in the void, where the mind is empty, where we can hear the Tao speak within us of the mysteries of God. This concept is well dealt with by the Gita and most mystic theologians.