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within us there is another beauty
The things that
change are not our real life.
Within us there is another body,
another beauty. It belongs to that ray of light
which never changes. We must discover how to mingle
with it and become one with that unchanging thing.
We must realize and understand this treasure
of truth. That is why we have
come to the world.
seek the guidance of the sage
Surrounded by obstructions,
one must first retreat, then
seek the direction of
the Sage.
There is an old saying which fits this hexagram: “You are caught between a rock and a hard place.” In other words, you are surrounded by obstructions. As much as you may want to blame others for the difficulty, in all likelihood the true obstruction is in your own thinking. What is called for now is a retreat into self-examination and self-correction.
Emotions of desire, fear, or anger may tempt you to take action now, but do not be seduced. The presence of these strong feelings is proof that your are off balance and need to steady yourself. As long as you try to forcibly achieve results—rather than carefully following higher truth step by step—you will be obstructed from making personal progress.
Whenever we indulge in judgements about others, we obstruct our own peace of mind and progress. We should choose instead to see the best in others, allow them to come and go as they will, and turn our energies inward, toward self-improvement.
Often the faults in our own thinking are revealed only with the aid of others. You would be wise now to seek the advice of a qualified counselor or truth-minded friend. Retreat, self-examination, and self-correction will remove the obstructions that block your path now.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 39, Chien / Obstruction
Want
to study with
an enlightened teacher?
Just stop giving rise to thoughts
and divisions and distinctions. When
self and other, good and bad, right
and wrong are replaced with
emptiness, you are your
own master.
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oneness with tao is freedom from harm
Work toward
emptiness and openness.
Cultivate stillness. Breathe harmony.
Become tranquility. As the ten thousand
things rise and fall, rise and fall,
just witness their return
to the root.
Everything
that flourishes dissolves
again into the source. To dissolve
back into the source is to find peace.
To find peace is to recover your true nature.
To recover your true nature is to know
the constancy of tao. To know
the constancy of tao
is insight.
Insight opens
your mind. An open
mind leads to an open heart.
Open heartedness leads to justice.
Justice is an expression of
divinity. Divinity is
oneness with
tao.
Oneness
with tao is freedom
from harm, indescribable
pleasure, eternal
life.
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I am a sky where spirits live
If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this.
When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,
Like this.
If anyone wants to know what “spirit” is,
or what “God’s fragrance” means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.
Like this.
When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.
Like this.
If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.
Like this. Like this.
When someone asks what it means
to “die for love,” point
here.
If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.
This tall.
The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.
Like this.
When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.
Like this.
I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret.
Like this.
When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.
Like this.
How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?
Huuuuu.
How did Jacob’s sight return?
Huuuu.
A little wind cleans the eyes.
Like this.
When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he’ll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprise us.
Like this.
And did
you feel it, in your heart,
how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out
what beauty is for? And have
you changed your
life?
September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019
they see the divine in all forms
Man’s attitude is the secret of life,
for it is upon man’s attitude that success and failure
depend. Both man’s rise and fall depend upon his attitude.
By attitude I mean that impulse which is like
a battery behind the mechanism
of thought.
There is hidden in our heart a
wonderful power. It is a divine power,
a sacred power, and it can be developed
and cherished by keeping our
attitude right.
to know the right attitude from the wrong
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