As a human; as a person concerned about the whole picture; as someone who cares about the people, and the environment, around you; as a mother or parent--as a descendant, and an ancestor in the making; as someone who wants harmony, abundance, and justice now and in the future; as an individual who values the thousands of people who made the path for you to be here today (your ancestors); and as someone inspired to dream and appreciate all that is present within you:
I invite you here for a pause to drink up and assimilate a bowl, or two, of cosmic soup.
May you be inspired, embodied with freedom and agility, and open to the wisdom around you.
With care,
--Ashley
What’s this soup and what’s in it?
The Cosmic Soup Bowl is a virtual space dedicated to informing, reflecting, and connecting others to resources for healing, culture, & motherhood.
The name for this space was inspired by the myth of Hundun. if you’re not yet familiar with it, here’s a interpretation from Wikipedia:
Semantically, the term hundun is related to several expressions, hardly translatable in Western languages, that indicate the void or a barren and primal immensity… It is also akin to the expression "something confused and yet complete" (huncheng 混成) found in the Daode jing 25, which denotes the state prior to the formation of the world where nothing is perceptible, but which nevertheless contains a cosmic seed. Similarly, the state of hundun is likened to an egg; in this usage, the term alludes to a complete world round and closed in itself, which is a receptacle like a cavern (dong 洞) or a gourd (hu 壺 or hulu 壺盧).[1]
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Note that the English loanword wonton is borrowed from the Cantonese pronunciation wan4tan1. Mair suggests a fundamental connection between hundun and wonton: "The undifferentiated soup of primordial chaos. As it begins to differentiate, dumpling-blobs of matter coalesce… With the evolution of human consciousness and reflectiveness, the soup was adopted as a suitable metaphor for chaos".[2] This last assertion appears unsupported however, since wonton soup is not attested in Chinese sources dating earlier than the Han dynasty,[3] although the linguistic connection of the soup to the larger concept certainly appears real.[4]