1 Heaven heaven below, heaven above
The creative is successful; this is beneficial if correct.
In the sky it is the sun; in the earth it is firmness. In people it is knowledge and duty. In the essence of mind it is awareness. In spiritual practice it is observation.
Strength in doing evil results in hellish, animalistic, or ghostlike existence. Strength in doing good results in power, social order, or heavenly states of mind. (...) Strength in the best ways of doing good, added to understanding of human suffering and the process of conditioning, plus action to free oneself from bonfage, results in personal liberation.
One should realize that everything is poised between being and nonbeing.
A dragon can be great or small, can shrink or expand. Therefore it is used to symbolize a quality of Heaven.
A leader works all day and is wary at night. ... This means not forgetting danger when secure, like one in command who nevertheless is humble and circumspect.
What flies is what had leaped, what had been wary, what had become visible, what had hidden. Unless you are like this, you can hardly be called a great person.
If you are a great person, all you see are great people.
... a dragon is something that has spiritual capacity and adaptive creativity - a metaphor for the buddha-nature.
... harmonization of concentration and insight, ... one uses insight to observe all things. ... one uses concentration to nurture potential. ... correct insight into central balance witnesses the design of reality.
When Yang moves, it changes to Yin; ... Zen Master Ta Hui said,
"Once enlightened, you are at peace."
... everything is interdependent, nothing exists alone; ... nothing therefore exists in and of itself, nevertheless things do exist, conditionally; and that because of this nature of things, eveything is always in between being and nonbeing.
Clouds move, rain falls, beings form a concrete flow.
The qualities of Heaven cannot be all told, but creativity sums them up. The qualities of creativity is indescritable, but it can be witnessed in the origination of all things.
... sages harmonize with the essence of life by practice, so that their self-development is completed. Sages see the beginning of things, so they can see the end already in the beginning.
... preserving unity with universal harmony;...
With the emergence of true leaders, all nations have peace.
This passage illustrates how the enlightened freely help others after they have cultivated their own qualities to perfection.
Creativity, sucess, benefit, and correctness represent the four inherent qualities of the nature of enlightnment - eternity, happiness, selfhood, and purity.
... the paradise of great nirvana, in which there is nothing but an eternal silent light.
Though there are six stages, there is a dragon in each stage, from ideal buddahood to ultimate realization of buddhahood.
The action of heaven is stong. People with leadership qualities use it to unceasingly grow strong themselves. "the exercise of inner qualities affects everything", as the qualities of our consciousness form our world.
Creativity is yhe growth of good, sucess is the concluence of dimensions of goodness, benefit is harmonization of duty and meaning, correctness is the effective accomplishment of what is to be done.
The sixty-four hexagrams are all in the two lines Yin and Yang. Purity of Yin or Yang makes the two hexagrams Heaven and Earth; when the meaning of Heaven and Earth is understood, then the meaning of all the hexagrams are understood.
... using culture to harmonize with nature, cultivating inner potencial to bring out the best in humanity.
... humanity, justice, courtesy, and knowledge. ... humanity is the quality of eternity, because it essentially does not change; courtesy is the quality of happiness, because of the beauties it contains; justice is the quality of selfhood, insofar as it means autonomous exercise of judgment; knowledge is the quality of purity, in the sense of being unobscured.
Even in ignorance, delusion, error, and confusion, the essential potential is always there; ... People use the buddha-nature every day but are not inwardly aware of it; they crazily get into all sorts of trips. Nevertheless, the buddha-nature does not decrease,... So it is "unknown to the world, untroubled in mind, not opinionated, free from worry."
To be continued...
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