Recorded at sunset in Saint-Louis, Senegal — just after Ramadan — with the call to prayer audible in the background, Episode 6 takes up one of the shortest and most compressed chapters in the Daodejing: Chapter Six, the Valley Spirit and the Deeply Dark Female. Before getting there, Ian grounds the entire Daoist tradition in something most Western treatments skip — the Neiye, or Inner Training, the somatic practice that preceded the Daodejing by generations and gave rise to it. The text is not philosophy. It never was. Then: a close translation of Chapter Six, a philological argument for "deeply dark" over "mysterious," and a comparison with Lin Yutang, Hall and Ames, and Victor Mair. The episode closes at the edge of the Door of No Return.