it is a dangerous hour

you are your own teacher

 

Darkness reappears unexpectedly.

Caution and reticence

are in order.

 
It is a dangerous hour. Through an eruption of our inferior nature darkness has interrupted the flow of light. The inferior can be quite seductive, and if we are not resolute in resisting it, the moment can be lost to misfortune.

In one’s self, this is a time to examine motives; those which are of questionable honor should be uprooted and discarded. Be wary of situations that engage your ego and tempt you into anger, self-righteousness, or desire. Actively employ your higher nature to test the correctness of tempting ideas and circumstances; that which seems to be suspicious almost certainly is.

In your conduct with others, practice modesty, independence, and patience with great discipline. Avoid anger or arrogance at all costs; withdraw whenever you cannot meet another in a balanced and independent way. Neither encourage another to forego his balance nor indulge him if he does so. Again, withdraw into stillness if the circumstances indicate the presence of inferior influences. Reticence and self-scrutiny are the order of the day.
 

The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 44, Kou / Coming to Meet

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attained upon looking within

make an offering of stillness

 

The two things

in the world that are hardest

to do are crossing the ocean and going

into battle; yet people will do these things without

fearing their difficulties. When it comes to the Way, it has

the ease of being so easy that it is attained upon looking

within, not like the danger of crossing the ocean;

it has the security of the naturalness of

celestial design, not like the peril of

going into battle: yet people

rarely practice it —

why is that? 

 

The Cultivator of Realization

taoist meditation

 

concentrate without pause

i ching / hexagram 40

 

Once 

you’ve begun 

to understand the Way, 

concentrate upon it without  

pause. This is the sunlight 

that matures the fruit of

your realization. 

 

Maintaining 

your insight through 

whatever comes, you make 

a Oneness of the world, and

conditions such as “good”

and “bad” drop 

away.

 

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