stilted koans are all monks have

nobuyoshi araki

Stilted koans and

convoluted answers are all monks have,

Pandering endlessly to officials and rich patrons.

Good friends of the dharma, so proud, let me tell you:

A brothel girl in gold brocade is worth

more than any of you.

Ikkyu

wikkyu

🪷

the arrival of a time of revolution

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Devotion to truth

enables a revolution.

The hexagram Ko announces the arrival of a time of revolution. A set of conditions, internal or external or both, is ready to pass away in favor of a more beneficial situation. What enables this transformation is your conscious and vigorous adherence to correct thought and behavior.

No revolution in outer things is possible without a prior revolution in one’s inner way of being. Whatever change you aspire to in your affairs must be preceded by a change in heart, and active deepening and strengthening of your resolve to meet every event with equanimity, detachment, and innocent goodwill. When this spiritual poise is achieved within, magnificent things are possible without.

The revolutions of others are enabled also when we refine the fire of goodness and truth inside ourselves. Sincere commitment to higher things travels outward in powerful waves from the superior person, and all those around are affected by this. Indisputably, to lead one’s inner self to truth and peace is to lead the outer world to truth and peace. A beneficial revolution is assured to one who takes this path now.

from The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 49, Ko / Revolution

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