I Ching - O Livro das Mutações - Cont.

13 Sameness with People fire below, heaven above

Sameness with people in the wilderness is successful. It is beneficial to cross a great river. It is bebeficial for a leader to be correct.

Once one has gone beyond birth and death, one should return to cross the great river of birth and death, to bring other people across.

A leader is one who can communicate with the wills of the world.

Once we have witnessed the true being of buddhas, we must exercise enlightened qualities to liberate people; this is called creative action. Health through civilization and enlightenment, responding with balance correctly is like the sun and moon shining in the sky, their reflections spontaneously appearing wherever there is clear water. This is the correctness of leaders.

Leaders are those who have already cut off ignorance and found the center of reality, and who adapt the inherent ability to command any of the roles or states open to humankind. Therefore they can communicate with the wills of the world, joining all people and all beings in the same sorrows and longing for release that are shared by all forms of life.

... when the right time comes, the design will be self-evident. This is the secret of cultivating the mind - do not forget, but do not try to help. ... accurate insight and true wisdom appearing, without effort;

Therefore it is necessary first to cultivate many practices, accumulate resources for enlightenment, and rely on the power of innumerable good qualities and works; only after that will one discover the true way to reality. It is because this is direct focus on the essence of complete awareness at the center of everything, whereby it is possible to go far beyond the truths of emptiness and conditionality, that there is "first weeping, afterward laughter".

... though concentration and insight are again equal, nevertheless one is at the culmination of creativity and can only get the empty experience of nirvana, incapable of entering the ordinary world and extending help to others; therefore "the aspiration is not yet attained".

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