sábado, 22 de novembro de 2008

I Ching - O Livro das Mutações - cont.


















2 Earth earth below, earth above Cont.
... like the Earth receiving the communications of Heaven, like the wife following her husband,... if knowledge and insight lack meditation and concentration, then one cannot fulfill self-help and help for others;

Heaven and Earth transform; ... if concentration and insight are capable of transformation, then people of various capacities each receive nutrition and are able to grow.

Leaders comprehend design in a centered and balanced way. While in the correct state, they maintain their bodies. When there is beauty therein, it rises in their limbs ans comes out in their work. This is the consummation of beauty.

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teaching is carried out through psychological assessment, appropriate instruction, and practical demonstration.

...Heaven is dark and Earth is yellow. Both Yin and Yang are based on the absolute, so they are based on the same substance; how can they doubt each other and battle?... Just when Yin is full, it battles Yang, so it is as if were no Yang; ... The blood is said to be dark yellow because it represents the point of movement, on the verge of chance, so "dark" and "yellow" are mixed. After the change has settled, Heaven is dark and Earth is yellow, and there cannot be mixed up.

If the leaders doubt the people, the people will doubt the leaders, and both will be harmed.... even if there is confusion and delusion, the truth always remains- there can be no mixup. ... Only for those who do not realize inherent good and inherent evil, affirmation and denial oppose each other, producing circular arguments and inevitable battle.

Once good and evil oppose each other, then both are already contaminated; therefore this fact is referred to as "blood", to show that people caught up in contests of "good" and "evil" have not left the ranks of those caught up in the mundane whirl of birth and death.

When good and evil oppose and overthrow each other, this is because of not having realized that the substance of their subtle essential nature is one,...

... the higher development of mind is an endless mystery; physical life on earth succeeds through balance. These cannot be changed.

Good and evil are not the same, yet they are the same in being of one essential nature,... Heaven and Earth are not the same, yet are the same one absolute. Also it is like the way the images in a mirror, beautiful and ugly, are not the same, yet it is the same one mirror.

If you know the sameness underlying dissimilarity, then you will surely not create battles by opposing differences to each other for their mutual elimination.

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