The greatest generosity is
non-attachment.
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aid should all be clear and free
As you
help people and
respond to their potential,
it should all be clear and free. You mustn’t
roll around in the nest of weeds or play with your
spirit in the ghost cave. If the supposed teacher uses
contrived concepts of “mysteries” and “marvels” and “the
essence of truth”, if he cocks his eyebrows and puts a gleam
in his eye and cavorts around uttering apt sayings and thereby
binds the sons and daughters of other people’s families
with doctrines he claims are absolute realities, then
he is just one blind man leading a crowd of
blind people — how can this produce
any genuine expedient
teaching?
at peace with everything
In the
practice of the Way,
nothing is forced. Remaining
at home in quiet concentration,
you merge the outside
and inside into
one.
At peace
with everything,
unlearned, unworried,
untouched by phenomena,
you enter into reality
as an ordinary
person.
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regard it as if raising an infant
If you can really
get to see your original Mind,
you must regard it as if you were raising
an infant. In whatever you do such as walking, standing,
sitting, lying down, be aware of Mind so that everything is illuminated
by it, so that nothing of the seven consciousnesses (vijnana) soils it.
If you can keep him [the new born Mind] clear and distinct,
it is like an infant growing up becoming
equal with the father.
hexagram 38 ䷥ opposition
michael dumontier / neil farber
There are many occasions in life which tempt us into negative thoughts. Anxiety about the future, mistrust of another person, bodily pain, fear of failure or even success—all of these tempt us into mistrusting life and believing that life is against us. When we fall into this trap, we are in opposition to the workings of the Creative and success becomes impossible.
The simple truth is that every moment in every person’s life contains the teaching he or she most needs at the time. It is not always immediately apparent why a thing is happening because the Sage is often inclined to work in a roundabout fashion. Nonetheless, whatever is happening now is what must happen. Our only task is to trust the process and allow the lesson to seep in.
This hexagram comes as a signal that you are resisting life and preventing your own progress. Nonetheless, success is still possible, for every opposition carries within it the seeds of agreement. Cease resisting yourself, others, life, the Sage. Let go of dark thoughts and aggressive actions. By returning to acceptance, neutrality, and devotion to the way of the Sage, you dissolve the opposition within yourself and open the way for understanding and good fortune to arrive.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 38 / K’uei (Opposition)
sixth changing line:
Neither life, the Sage, nor
your companions seek to harm you.
Lay aside mistrust and release the
tensions of the moment.
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If you haven’t
attained the Way,
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Don’t waste time blaming
yourself, either. Just
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