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an outpouring of benevolent energy

to the surfers who saved my life

 

If you are alert to the Creative, 

you will meet with good

fortune now.

 

This hexagram signals a time when the fundamental creative power of the universe is available to you. An unrestricted outpouring of benevolent energy from the heavens makes possible profound progress for those who are conscientiously following proper principles.

Frantic activity is not in order. Your responsibility instead is to be open and receptive to the Higher Power, allowing it to guide your actions. By allowing inferior thoughts and habits to pass away, you make room for an expansion of your superior qualities, which leads inevitably to good fortune.

In your conduct with others, embody tolerance, reticence, and gentleness. Strive to meet others halfway in every situation. To overextend yourself, or require that of another, is to create an undesirable imbalance.

Your attitude toward the Sage is most important. Alertness and receptiveness are paramount. To receive the powerful assistance of the Creative, remain humble, patient, accepting, and responsive. Careful attention to truth brings vast rewards at this time.
 

The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 1, Ch’ien / The Creative

 

FOURTH LINE
A place of transition. There is
the possibility of progress in many directions.
Let go of preconceived notions about your proper path.
You succeed by allowing the Creative to guide you.

 

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tao is like streams flowing to the sea

reality flows like pure water

 

The primal eternal Tao

is an unnameable simplicity.

Though small, there is nothing

under all of heaven that

can subjugate it.

 

If a leader abides by it,

all beings are naturally

drawn to him.

 

Heaven and

earth come together

in harmony and sweet rain falls

everywhere. People cooperate

voluntarily, without any

instruction.

 

Tao in the world

is like streams flowing

into the sea.

 

Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 32

 


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to practice wholeheartedly


 

Don’t be concerned

with who is wise and who is stupid.

Do not discriminate the sharp from the dull.

To practice whole-heartedly is the true endeavor of the way.

Practice-realization is not defiled with specialness;

it is a matter for every day.

 

Dogen

 

Be the same

all the way through:

quiet, still, at home. In the

absence of mind, all phenomena

can be seen for what they

are — empty. This is

freedom.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 26

 

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the aristocracy of the heart

collect and keep happy experiences

 

Tawazu’ in Sufic terms

means something more than hospitality.

It is laying before one’s friend willingly what one has,

in other words sharing with one’s friend all the

good one has in life, and with it,

enjoying life better.

 

When this tendency

to tawazu’ is developed, things that

give one joy and pleasure become more enjoyable by

sharing with another. This tendency comes from the aristocracy

of the heart. It is generosity and even more than generosity. For the

limit of generosity is to see another pleased in his pleasure,

but to share one’s own pleasure with another is greater

than generosity. It is a quality which is foreign

to a selfish person, and the one who

shows this quality is on the

path of saintliness.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

be done with knowing

how hard was it to be a baby?

 

Be done

with knowing and

your worries will disappear.

How much difference is there between

yes and no? How much distinction between

good and evil? Fearing what others fear,

admiring what they admire —

nonsense.

 

Conventional

people are jolly and reckless,

feasting on worldly things and carrying on

as though every day were the beginning of spring.

I alone remain uncommitted, like an infant

who hasn’t yet smiled: lost, quietly

drifting, unattached to ideas

and places and

things.

 

Conventional

people hoard more than

they need, but I possess nothing

at all, know nothing at all,

understand nothing

at all.

 

They

are sharp; I am dull.

Like the sea, I am calm and

indifferent. Like the wind I

have no particular

direction.

 

Everyone

else takes his place and

does his job; I alone remain wild

and natural and free. I am different

from the others; I drink

directly from the

Mother.

 

Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 20

 

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