This is common in many traditions.
Emptiness is the Tao in Taoism or the Father in Christianity.
The Mother is you could say the perceived motion of emptiness. It is the female aspect or energy. All things are energy and is often referred to as the Mother or female aspect.
That is why in many traditions a Divine being will have both a male and female aspect or you will see Divine beings in Yab Yum or a sexual position. It is representing the union of both the male and female aspects.
From the book,
The Book of the Simple Way.
Quote:
Yet this unity and diversity
are one, and that One is Tao, and Tao is greater than God
and greater than Nature, for in Tao both God and Nature
are as one.
"Before Heaven was, Tao was. Spiritual things draw
their spirituality therefrom, while the universe became (by
it) what we behold it now. To Tao the zenith is not high
nor the nadir low. No point in time is long ago, nor by
lapse of ages has It grown old."
Laotze makes a distinction between the Supreme Source
of all things-Tao the ineffable, and Nature the mother of
all things. Tao, the essence of the Universal Spirit, selfexistent, uncreate and eternal, the source of all creations
and of all worlds, as of the gods who made and govern
them, "is by nature One," says Laotze.
"One and universal is Tao, but the first has produced
a second and the second a third, and these three are all
things. In vain may your senses enquire concerning all
these ; your reason alone can frame anything respecting
them, and this will tell you that they are only One." 1
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Quote:
GOING BACK TO THE CAUSE
THAT from which the universe sprang may be
looked upon as its Mother.
By knowing the Mother you have access to
the child.
And if, knowing the child, you prefer the
Mother, though your body perish, yet you
will come to no harm.
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the
doors of sight and sound, and as long as you
live you will have no vexation.
But open your mouth, or become inquisitive,
and you will be in trouble all your life long.
To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.
To remain gentle is to be invincible.
Follow the light that guides you homeward,
and do not get lost in the darkness.
This I call using the eternal.
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