2 Earth earth below, earth above
Stability and correctness bode well.
Earth means receptivity, docility.
In the sky, it is shade; on the ground, it is softness.
In people, it is humaneness.
In the essential nature of consciousness, it is tranquillity.
In cultivation, it is practice of stopping the mind.
In the material world, it is support.
In the physical body, it is abdomen and the organs it contains.
In the home, it is the wife.
In a country, it is the ministers.
First it is necessary to use Heaven knowledge to open up round understanding; then use this Earth practice to develop and complete this understanding. ... Just follow knowledge and then apply it; then you will find the "director" and get the advantage of direction. This is like the eyes and the feet working together, ... or like skill and strength working together to hit the target...
Consummate is the creative basis of earth; all beings live on its sustenance, as it goes along in accord with the communications it receives from heaven. ... material things and living beings all succeed.
... the category of earth... boundlessly, gentle, obedient, helpful, faithful.
The good outlook of stability and correctness corresponds to the boundlessness of the earth.
Reception of energy comes about through origination based on Heaven, development of form comes about through living on the sustenance of Earth. Because development of form only takes place due to reception of energy,...
... in Buddhist terms, Earth represents the essential nature of the enlightenment potential, which contains much without accumulating anything. This is called Heaven in terms of knowledge, but is called Earth in terms of noumenon. In terms of awareness, it is called Heaven; in terms of tranquillity, it is called Earth.
... intellectual activity in the course of cultivation can be called Heaven, while practical activity can be called Earth.
... Heaven... Earth ... the mutual adornement of virtue and wisdom.
... noumenon is revealed by knowledge, tranquillity is revealed by awareness, culture is developed by nature, virtue is guided by wisdom. Then noumenon and knowledge merge, tranquillity and awareness unite, culture and nature combine, virtue and wisdom blend.
... when meditation concentration is practiced according to knowledge and wisdom, it becomes the meditation concentration of the enlightened. Practices such as charity, discipline, tolerance, effort, and meditation are blind, and need the guidance of wisdom.
If you use knowledge to guide action, and action follows knowledge, then knowledge is constant and action too is constant.
... one only works with one's own kind;
... the nature of Yang is movement, and if there is arbitrary or impulsive movement, positive energy might leak away. Thus the warning not to go into action too soon. The nature of Yin is stilness, and calmness leads to success;
... the six lines of Heaven are explained in terms of both essence and cultivation, nature and culture; the six lines of Earth are explained in terms of cultivating practices to develop good qualities and concentration.
... meditation that is neither in the world nor beyond the world.
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