aid should all be clear and free

pieter bruegel the elder

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?

Yuanwu

zen letters

at peace with everything

bao pham

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.

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 11

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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.

Munan

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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