quarta-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2008

I Ching - O Livro das Mutações






















4 Darkness water below, mountain above

... Getting through. It is not that I seek the ignorant; the ignorant seek me.... Benefit is a matter of correctness.
... - there is danger below a mountain. Stopping at danger is innocence;

The accomplishment of sages is to take the opportunity of ignorance to educate correctly. ... When people are ignorant, the work of the enlightened is to educate them properly, so that they too may become enlightened.

Under a mountain emerges a spring, in darkness. ... the commitment to universal liberation and enlightenment covers all, just as a spring provides water for plants, animals, and people.

The correct method of breaking down ignorance is not emotional attack. ... embrace, protect, and educate the ignorant, with a good outlook.

... meditation loses its true character when it is practiced while under the influence of the arrogant ego, and it loses all benefit.

Real teachers do not avoid us; we ourselves avoid real teachers.

When an adult does not lose the heart of a baby, this is innocent ignorance and has a good outlook, because of being near to strict guides and good associates. ... as long as your actions do not harmonize with the way, you will have no way to get into real learning.

When one is firm but not excessive, one can use the power of concentration and insight to break through the barriers of ignorance.... there are only ways to remove blindness, no special ways to give sight.

When there is no dogma binding people, then all types of people can be contacted, in harmony with truth and in harmony with the potential inherent in the opportunity of the moment; therefore "above and below are in harmony".
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