Lüshi Chunqiu and Music as the origin of the Dao

So this is from Professor Sarah Allen's fascinating analysis - pdf

The great one, water, and the Laozi: New light from Guodian

The work is cited by: 

This Chapter is a comprehensive study of the Huainanzi, which contends that “Careful analysis of its philosophical positions demonstrates the priority it gives to a cosmology and method of self-cultivation found in the Laozi and Zhuangzi, and argues for its not merely being part of a classical Daoist tradition, but the most complex and sophisticated philosophical expression of that tradition.” It also argues that the Huainanzi is primarily Syncretic with a Daoist cosmology and inner cultivation theory as the context for using ideas from the other main intellectual traditions of the Late Warring States and Early Han.

So the focus here is to realize how music theory unlocks the secret of Daoist alchemy training and cosmology - in the broader context of other music-based alchemy philosophies - "three gunas" of India and the Pythagorean Logos - of West Asia - and this goes back to Africa and around the world through music theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCshi_Chunqiu

The claim is this book is actually based on knowledge going back thousands of years and indeed the bone flutes were found with turtle shells with divination yin-yang alchemy symbols - going back thousands of years - 6000 BCE - and the dragon and tiger were also yang-yin going back that far.

While research has focused on various manuscript copies, the discovery of other cosmogonic texts dated to the late fourth century BC indicate that the Laozi was not as unique as it once seemed. Taken together, these texts show a radical shift in philosophical orientation occurring by the late 4^th century BC, a change toward concerns with cosmogony and accounts of human beings as merely one part of the natural world.

So the Tao Te Ching is now being "contexualized" into an older philosophy

More on these early texts from Zongjiang Wang google book preview

 Each chapter focuses on one excavated manuscript, in chronological order, from the Hengxian and Taiyi shengshui excavated from Guodian, to the Fanwu liuxing in the Shanghai museum collection, to the Huangdi sijing unearthed from Mawangdui, to three different versions of the Laozi—from Guodian from Mawangdui, and the most recently published version in the Beijing University collection. Although Wang elucidates how important Daoist concepts developed in early China are, this book is not an introduction to the intellectual history of Daoism. Instead, Wang explains how particular Daoist concepts developed based on his reading of excavated Daoist manuscripts. Focusing on cosmology throughout the seven chapters, Wang considers the similarities and differences in the way each excavated manuscript explains the creation of the universe, analyzing how such concepts as “the Dao,” “Constant Change,” and the “Great Oneness” are connected to Daoist statecraft (i.e., “non‐government”).

yes that Pdf I linked based on Dawei's terms - it discusses music as the Dao.
So the thing to realize is that only in Western tuning is there this idea of a "symmetric" cancellation into zero silence - which is a straight line on an oscilloscope - as two "real" numbers. So actually real numbers were "created" from music theory in the WEst based on the concept of the "continuum." The "continuum" is a deeply held cognitive bias in the West that we all learn by 10th grade in school - learning analytic geometric of irrational magnitude as real numbers. But these are logarithmic numbers that assume a symmetric negative infinity of zero as a materialistic idealism. In other words the continuum - as math professor Luigi Borzacchini points out - can not be perceived! It is a "process" of abstract thinking as the ideology of science - and so math claims to be pure, but as Borzcchini points out, Western math is actually a "deep pre-established disharmony."
 
So the Daoist music is not this symmetric cancellation of opposites but instead an inherent complementary opposites that is eternal motion - and this is the real taiji as wuji reality. In cosmology - the "center" of the circle was considered to be the pole star but at the same time Daoists stated the pole star is not the cosmic origin which has no center. So the taiji is then inherent to the original energy-information that is formless. there is no "cancellation" into nothingness - it is more like the quantum vacuum that inherently is not empty - but as qigong master Yan Xin states, is the "virtual information field" that does the healing. So the Emptiness is a spacetime vortex that enables precognition and harmonization - from the future - and it is always secretly guiding the present - as the secret origin of light, from the future.
 
So actually in Western math - it is called "noncommutative phase" - so at each zero point in space, there is actually the future and past interwove as a nonlocal process - as math professor Alain Connes says, music theory is a "universal scaling system." So he says music has a geometric dimension of zero as (2, 3, infinity) the triple spectral (frequency) origin of reality. This means that the perceived Pitch is the 5th dimension - the Perfect Fifth is the subharmonic C to F as 2/3 and then overtone harmonic C to G as 3/2 - at the same time, as infinity since 2 does not go into 3, at each zero point in space. So we can not see this energy but we can listen to it or logically infer it. And so the Daoists call it the "undivided yin-yang" as "yuan qi" which is the source of spirit, the Mother of spirit is the qi - and so it can not be seen, like the womb in darkness.
 

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I feel that the past, and the present and the future is all in one state. They’re operating at different frequency levels. It isn’t the past here, the present here and the future here. We are all at one state. The past, present and future are all here. That’s why some people have deja vu….

 
– Qigong Grandmaster Effie P. Chow
 
So that is this 5th dimension - the Emptiness actually is the "golden key" as "superluminal" yin matter - that restores the Yuan Jing - through the yuan qi as the eternal present energy that is experienced through the yuan shen.

 

So one of the mysteries is why the origin is female....



So goes into this more in detail, in terms of cosmogony - but when we compare that with the research in Daoist alchemy - then things merge. And even more so with music theory.