I Ching - O Livro das Mutações - cont

8 Accord earth below, water above

Accord bodes well. Make sure the basis is always right, so that there will be no fault. Then the uneasy will come. Latecomers are unfortunate.

... in terms of the person, those in unenlightened states of mind are the lowly. When they follow the realm of the enlightened docilely, they are assisting. In terms of the teaching, pratical activities are the lowly. When they follow the exercise of insight, then they are assisting.

The path comes to an end for people in the sense that they become deluded or wander off and suffer a fall, not following the teaching of enlightenment. In terms of teaching, this means being eliminated because of emotional ideas not in accord with the right way.

... earth is like objective realities, water is like perceptive insight; earth is like the realm of silent light, water is like the different realms of common presence, expedient purification, and true reward. Both have the image of accord.

... objects such as the mental and physical elements are set up to provoke contemplative insight.

... people in the heaven of desire have virtues, and they also have intelligence, but they need to cultivate profound concentration. ... all that is need is to reach the outside from the inside.

... emotional opinions certainly do not accord with the way to enlightenment. ... when real insight opens out, it is like the bright sun in a clear sky;

... if you suddenly realize emptiness and disregard causality, believing yourself to have transcended everything, you are not really in accord with the true vehicle to the source. Your habitually active consciousness is vague, with no basis to rely on, and in a life-and-death crisis you are bound to be like a lobster plunged into boiling water.

... the ocean of passions and the ocean of all knowledge are not really two in essence. Furthermore, from ancient times until now, none have not been born in suffering and died into peace; so the truth of suffering is placed first among the four truths elucidated by the Buddha. The Buddha called eight kinds of suffering teachers. Suffering causes anxiety and unease, and when one is anxious and uneasy, the ocean of passion stirs, so particularized knowledge appears.

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