61 Sincerity in the Center lake below, wind above
Sincerity in the center is auspicious when simple-minded. it is beneficial to cross great rivers. It is beneficial to be upright.
Because the four seasons have regularity, all beings trust them, and each attains its growth and development. Because measures and virtuous conduct have regularity, everyone in the land trusts them, and this makes them sensitively responsive. ... the center is the source of sensitive response and integration.
But in order to reach this path, it is beneficial to cross great rivers, and it is also beneficial to be upright...achieve the ultimate fluidity to go anywhere. ... If one does not cross great rivers,one cannot refine the mind by experience and effectively function. If one is not beneficially upright, one cannot integrate phenomena throught the design of reality and establish a basis.
Joyful and docile, sincerity then transforms the nation. ... It is beneficial to cross great rivers, riding on a wooden boat that is empty.
If we look at the whole hexagram, the two flexible lines are inside: this stands for true obedience with an open mind, without the slightest bit of belligerent selfishness.
If we look at the hexagram divided into upper and lower parts, two firm lines are in the center: this stands for truthfulness and genuine sincerity, unadultered by emotional desires.
The joy symbolized by the lake trigram moves people harmoniously; the docility symbolized by the wind trigram integrates with people harmoniously.
The boat is empty inside, and the wood is strong; therefore it can carry anything and travel any distance. When people are flexible inside, they are like and empty boat; when their strength is in balance, they are like strong wood: they can go through myriad ups and downs without being defeated.
Sincerity in the center is the ultimate righteousness in the world. Only by being beneficially upright can one attain sincerity in the center. This cannot be forced; it is just response to natural inherent qualities.
Observe how dolphins leap in the waves when a strong wind is about to arise. The dolphins have no intentions of sensing the wind, and the wind has no intention of responding to the dolphins. It is because their minds are empty that their patterns are fulfilled.
So it is with the essence of the human mind in the immediate present: it is not inside, not outside, not in between, not in the past, not in the present, not in the future.
Comprehending things whitout missing anything can be called ultimate fulfillment. Emotional attachments are fundamentally empty, while the substance of mind is truly real and certainly cannot be called empty. ... Therefore flexibility and firmness are not two things, the inside and the center are not two places. Only those who know this can be called upright, can cross rivers, and can reach simplicity in sincerity, thus leading to good fortune.
True leaders know that when people do wrong, sometimes it arise from circumstances beyond their control; if they know how the people feel, they are sympathetic and sad for them, so they consider their judgments, giving weight to the people's merits and trying to minimize their faults.
Developed people are wary of what they may not notice. ... The fundamental essence is itself the work,... As soon as a thought arises,... the mind changes, and one is not at rest. ... one who is obscure but daily becomes more illustrious. ... someone of similar qualities in a relationship of mutual trust and sincerity.
... one in whom hidden virtues are well developed, who is therefore like the moon approaching fullness. ... one must get rid of that association and rise higher to unite with universally impartial sincerity in the center, in order to be without fault.
... one who believes in his own good name, lofty status, and intellectual views, and does not know the way of inner flexibility and balance. ... people will surely think it strange and kill him, so he cannot last.
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