Those who
awaken never rest in one place.
Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.
On the air they rise and fly an invisible course.
Their food is knowledge. They live on
emptiness. They have seen how
to break free. Who can
follow them?
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hexagram 32 ☯️ heng / duration
Remain steady
and allow the world
to shape itself.
Receiving
this hexagram is an
encouragement to endure, to move
ahead by abiding in what is true and correct.
It is not a time to let the ego swell with successes
nor to despair at misfortunes. It is
simply a time to hold to the
path of essential
truth.
It is
likely that a
change has occurred,
or is about to. It is your responsibility
to hold your course and go on without regarding
this change. Constancy in correct thought and action
is the order of the day. Rather than letting your
head be turned, simply hold steady
on your spiritual path while
the world reforms
around
you.
Do not
indulge in judgment,
impatience, or ambitious thinking
now. By concerning yourself only with what
is essential and true and good, only with what
is in front of you and your correct
relationship to it, you meet
with good fortune
now.
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our spiritual food changes us
Our bodily
food changes into us,
but our spiritual food
changes us into
itself.
silent illumination
With thoughts clear,
sitting silently, wander into the
centre of the circle of wonder. This is
how you must penetrate
and study.
not to look for an alternative path
Heartbreak
asks us not to look for
an alternative path, because there
is no alternative path. It is an introduction
to what we love and have loved, an inescapable
and often beautiful question, something
and someone that has been with
us all along, asking us to be
ready for the ultimate
letting go.