The work of learning
the Way requires greater intimacy
with each passing day, greater intimacy with
each passing hour. Eventually you develop
spontaneous familiarity and
unite with the Way.
be enlightened by all things
To study the Way
is to study the self. To study the
self is to forget the self. To forget the
self is to be enlightened
by all things.
become so free
The only way
to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free that
your very existence is an
act of rebellion.
less talk, more listening
persevere in truth and correctness
Just because we
recognize the source of the problem
does not mean that it will disappear immediately.
Perseverance in truth and correctness
dissolves the influence
in time.
third changing line
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 36, Ming I / Darkening of the Light
(full text here)
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