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22 Adornment fire below, mountain above

Adornment is successful. It is beneficial to go somewhere in a small way.

In terms of contemplating mind, this means adornment with concentration and insight after perfecting observation of the development of mental states.

Observe the adornment of heaven to see the changes of the times; observe the adornment of humanity to transform and complete the world.

... insight with appropriate concentration...

Embellishment and substance complement one another; concentration and insight balance one another. This is inherent so, and not something forced, so it is called the "adornment of heaven". Embodying insight with concentration, calm yet ever aware, is "civilization". Embodying concentration with insight, aware yet ever calm, is "control". This means using culture to unite with nature; this is called the "adornment of humanity".

Inherent qualities create all possible realms of experience, so by observing them one can see the changes of the times. In terms of cultivated qualities, all possible realms of experience ultimately rest in one mind; therefore by observing them one can transform and complete the world.

..."there is fire below a mountain" stands for outward stillness with inward illumination... Understanding what is right and what is wrong about all things, one ultimately does not create emotional opinions grasping and rejecting by judging one as right and one as wrong;

Adorn the feet; leave the car and walk.

This represents concealing one's virtues and living a simple life in obscurity, walking instead of riding. This is adorning oneself with rightteousness.

Flexible docility balanced and correct, one opens one's mind to derive benefit from the wise. This is adorning oneself through the agency of teachers and companions.

... doubts. They are not enemies but patners,...

Sincere students and those full of virtue are also helpful associates. Seeing the wise, one thinks of how to be equal to them; seeing the unwise, one reflects on oneself.... not presume to believe in oneself or act arbitrarily. This is adorning oneself with an open mind.

When one is flexible but balanced, and has a positive strong will, one is able to know the joy of enlightened virtue and does not pride oneself on power ou position. Rather, one looks upon the honor of exalted rank as equal to hills and groves, just like the ancient sage-king who ate poor food, wore poor clothing, and lived in a poor house. This is the image of the regret of the roll of silk being small; but really one has no complaints and comes to an auspicious end. This is adorning oneself with abundant virtue.

... growing more illumined as one gets older, one's qualities becoming pure and flawless.

... adorning oneself with generosity,...

... adorning oneself with discipline,...

... adorning oneself with preseverance ...

... adorning oneself with concentration...

... adorning oneself with wisdom.

... adornment with an ideal, not letting inherent qualities displace cultivated qualities.

... adornment with intelectual understanding,...

... adornment with contemplation practice,...

... adornment with conformity, not dwelling on religious attachment....

... adormnet with partial realization, not missing the absolute truth, conventional truth, or the center of balance....

... adornment with ultimate realization, returning to the original essential nature...

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19 Overseeing lake below, earth above

Overseeing is very successful, beneficial if correct.

... this means getting rid of meditation illness and progressively cutting off delusions;

Great success in a correct manner is the way of nature.

... A correct manner means one in harmony with the beneficial consummation of creative development deriving from the original energy of the universe; this is the original quality of inherent power.

... the earth supports beings, the oceans support the earth.

... to oversee the populace it is important to be human and flexible. ... to get rid of ills it is appropriate to apply the power of insight;

... if you are flexible and intelligent, you will be able to take stock of yourself and change;

... using correct concentration corresponding to correct insight;

What is appropriate for a great leader is balance in action. ... The way of balance comprehends all things,...

In Buddhist terms, once subtle concentration is deep, it naturally awakens genuine insight, realizing that there are no objects outside of mind, so that one does not seek anything outside mind.

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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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17 Following thunder below, lake above

Following is very successful, beneficial if correct. No fault.

...when the rulers and ruled are pleased with each other, they will follow each other.

...once one has attained the joy of truth, once can harmonize with the true character of things.

Following is very successful if it is correct; ... when the right time arrives, the truth is self-evident. Standards change; it is good to be correct... and it is good to follow what is right.

Involved with the child, one loses the adult. Involved with the adult, one loses the child. Just follow the right and obey; get closely involved and you will be stabilized.

Only if one has deep faith in the right way is the trail of mind clear and faultless.

Truthfulness in good is auspicious because the state is correctly balanced.

One must firmly believe in the true way out of the mundane; then the matter of mind can finally be clarified. The fifth Yang represents firm strength that is balanced and correct, helping oneself and helping others. ... The second Yin represents flexible obedience that is balanced and correct.

...the power of insight, so it is possible to give up the individual and take to the universal.

Only by the power of sincere faith, directed toward the west, wich in Buddhist terms means the western paradise Amitabha, the land of ultimate happiness, is it possible for anyone who cultivates this dedication to go there.

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62 Small Excess mountain below, thunder above

It is beneficial to be correct. It is all right for small matters, not for great matters.

When true leaders establish measures and consider virtuous conduct, they make as regular as the four seasons, so that even ignorant people trust them.

But it is essential to be correct. When one is correct, small excess then becomes no excess. If one is not correct, then small excess turns into great excess. ... to be correct, which means to act in accord with the time.

People have two qualities, firmness and flexibility. If they are in charge of great matters, it is appropriate to use firmness. In dealing with small matters, it is appropriate to use flexibility.

Deference is a remedy for arrogance; pity is a remedy for disregard; abstemiousness is a remedy for extravagance. The remedy uses excess to make up for lack, seeking only to attain equilibrium.

All the birds have left; leaving the group and rising alone, one eventually dies. ... When ancient tyrants lost their countries, this was also simply, because they tried to go higher when they should have lowered themselves.

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12 Obstruction earth below, heaven above

The great goes and the small comes.

... heaven and earth do not commune, so myriad beings do not develop. When above and below do not communicate, no country can exist.

Unable to attain enlightenment yourself, you cannot influence others to attain enlightenment;

People always fear demons, strong and weak, so the tradition on Tranquillity uses words of utmost felicity to comfort them and enable them to avoid shrinking back, intimidated. People always love religious attachment in following a way, so the tradition on Obstruction uses words of utmost lament to warn them not to become attached.

Embracing service, small people are lucky; great people get through obstruction. ... in the sense that they are not deranged by the crowd.

... represents flexible docility balanced correctly, responding to the leader with positive firmness balanced correctly,... who develops people's heart with humaneness and kindness, bringing back the celestial fortune. So small people who embrace service to enlightened order are lucky.

But from the point of view of the great person,... this is where one sees the world not yet at peace and is still choked and uneasy at heart; yet it is precisely because of this unease that one can bring about a successful way through impasses and be invulnerable to mass derangement.

If there is anything you can do to help the rescue of people from obstruction, you will do it, without concern for petty reputation or petty manners.

... trouble is always overcome when it has not yet happened, and disturbance always arises in what is overlooked. Therefore it is necessary to be calm yet not forget danger, to live without forgetting death, to be orderly but not forget disorder. This should be kept firmly in mind. Who but great people can do this?

When strength is not balanced correctly, first there is obstruction.

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60 Regulation lake below, water above

Regulation is successful, but painful regulation is not to be held to.

Water is dispersed by wind, regulated by a lake. When it is regulated, it does not overflow and does not dry up, so it can always provide moisture; ... If dispersal is excessive, it results in exhaustion, so it is taken up with regulation; but too much regulation results in suffering, so it is not to be held to permanently.

Painful regulation is not to be held to, because that would lead to an impasse. Work through danger joyfully, take charge of the situation with discipline, get through with balance and rectitude. As heaven and earth are regulated, the four seasons take place. When laws are established with regulation, they do not damage property or injure people.

When one attains balance, one does not suffer pain. When one suffers pain, one comes to an impasse, and when one is at an impasse, one cannot deal with ordinary life. If one does not suffer pain, one is joyful, and so can also work through danger. ... Nature has four seasons, kings have laws; both of these are what is referred to as getting through by balance and rectitude.

Customary social relations are conducted based on virtues...

In terms of timing, this means first indulging in feelings and doing what you please, without knowing how to regulate yourself; afterward troubles come and you lament in vain.

Here positive strength is balanced and correct, in the position of honor. This is one who manages the situation with discipline. There is neither excess nor lack, so there is contentment and a good outlook.

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Perfeição

Perfeita é a Linha do Horizonte entre o Céu e o Mar!

Olha ... não tem qualquer imperfeição no seu traço.

Apesar de tão real aos nossos olhos, ela é uma ilusão!

A perfeição existe não existindo. Só existe na medida em que te tenta a a alcançar mas na verdade, não consegues lá chegar.

Há uma razão para que ela assim seja diante de ti...

A Linha é perfeita. Ela é a Perfeição!

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15 Humility mountain below, earth above

Humility gets through. A leader has a conclusion.

... this means not being self-satisfied at good fortune when the earth is at peace and has become a paradise.

If you think you are fulfilled, then heaven will diminish you, earth will change you, spirits will harm you, people will dislike you. ... realizing that all beings have the mountain of virtues of buddhahood within them,...

Extreme humility. It is fortune if leaders use this to cross great rivers.
Beneficial to all, the exercise of humility. ... being correctly flexible and agreeable,... Exercising humility toward the humble is truly the way it is supposed to be.

... in terms of characteristics of budhahood,
the first Yin represents manifestation of spiritual descent into the womb and subsequent birth on earth. Because a buddha has already realized birthlessness long ago, yet still manifests birth,...
The second Yin represents manisfestation of renunciation of social status. Buddhas .... they say they are leaving behind their social status because of birth and death.
The third Yang represents manifestation of overcoming demons and attaining enlightenment. Buddhas have already transcended the realm of demons and realized great enlightenment, yet they manisfest these accomplishments for the benefit of other beings, to cause those who observe this to accept it in their hearts.
The fourth Yin represents manisfestation of reflection after enlightenment.
The fifth Yin represents manifestation of activation of teachings. Originally there is no real teaching; all teachings are beneficial techniques, provisionally demonstrated:... All buddhas can invoke the testimony of all others buddhas, since reality is one...
The top Yin represents manifestation of extinction. ... buddhas actually do perform buddha-work by extinction, in that they cause people who have not yet planted roots of goodness to plant them, they cause people who have planted roots of goodness to mature them, and they cause mature people to be emancipated;...

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7 The Army water below, earth above

For the army to be right, mature people are good.

If one can contend with oneself, then one will not get into contention with others.

... weapons are unlucky and battle is dangerous;...

... people's afflictions are infinite, so the methods of curing them are also infinite. ... If one can use the many liberative methods to correct one's innumerable delusions, one helps oneself and helps others, and can thereby be a spiritual monarch governing the spiritual realm.

Therefore progressive people realize that all the countless problems experienced in the course of life in the world are also so many ways to enlightenment, so they do not cling to anything, nor do they reject anything.

If one cannot lead an orderly life, one's actions, speech, and thoughts will be no good and will lead to misfortune. ... to take up celestial action, and make it into wise and pure, compassionate and innocent work, is what is called keeping all this work in one mind.

... if you apply corrective methods arbitrarily, without knowing when they will work, you will on the contrary damage your own and others' mental life.

... mental afflictions damaging the sprouts of enlightenment.

It is beneficial to take up words in the sense that it is good to read the teachings to clearly understand this.

However, the principles for reading scriptures are to rely on the meaning, not on the words; to rely on the complete teaching, not on incomplete teachings; to rely on the true knowledge, not on conditioned discrimination.

If you can make a deep search of the meanings and principles in the scriptures, and go into contemplation along with the scripture, then you are like a mature person leading the army.

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5 Waiting heaven below, water above

Waiting with truthfulness lights up success in correct orientation toward good. It is beneficial to cross a great river.

The way to educate the ignorant cannot be rushed; it is necessary to await the appropriate times and conditions. If the time comes, the truth becomes self-evident.

Knowing the need to wait when danger lies ahead is characteristic of firmness that is strong, not bringing about its own overthrow by wrong action. ... The power of knowledge and wisdom is not overthrown by problems, so in the end it is possible to be liberated and not be frustrated.

From the essential nature, the right basis, you gradually flow into the ocean of all knowledge. ... Going from the state of the ordinary man to that of the sage,...

The complete nature, we produce culture; the completion of culture is in nature. ... This is skillful resting of the mind in calm and clarity whatever the circunstances.

... in the stage of contemplation practices, once you have put down confusion, then the forces of delusion are shaken up;... You just use the power of aspiration to bring the forces of delusion, so as to show the power of conquering delusion and attaining enlightenment. If the work of contemplating the absolute, the relative, and their unity is carried out with respect and care, there will certainly be no failure.

... when the forces of delusion have been defeated, you come out beyond the lairs of all physical and metaphysical realms and attain true awareness.

Without even using force to conquer delusion, only the power of concentrated compassion, one can see to it that the forces of delusion retreat of themselves, and enlightenment is achieve of itself. ... The suchness of the realm of delusion is the same as the suchness of the realm of enlightenment.

... it is good to be correct, in the sense of being centered correctly.

... not only going into the realm of enlightenment, but also being able to go into the realm of delusion, coming back into the the realms of emotions, physical events, and metaphysical states, to liberate as many people as possible, observing the elements of the subjective and objective causes and effects of these realms.

Once you are integrated with the emotional, physical, and metaphysical worlds, though you are not in the position of buddhas, yet you can liberate people according to their type. Event if people do not know or respect you, you can still make conditions for their liberation from a distance, and you have not lost much.

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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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20 Observing earth below, wind above

Observing, having washed the hands but not presented the offering, there is sincerity that is reverent.

... overseeing the people benevolently and being admired by them. ... helping people by influencing them rightly and being trusted by everyone. ... this means that progressive cultivation to cut off delusion requires the use of subtle observation.

Observing the spiritual way of heaven, the four seasons are orderly. Sages use the spiritual way to establish education, and all the world accepts. ... That wich is sacred and unknowable is called spiritual.

The spirit is truthfulness, truthfulness is sincerity, sincerity is the heart of humanity. The heart of humanity is basically harmonious, docile, balanced, and upright; mind impresses mind, so there is spontaneous acceptance without the need to present and offering.

... "the great observed" refers to the suble observation of the absolute; "on hight" refers to transcendence of all unenlightened states of mind. "Harmonious" means not deviating from essential nature, and being omnipresent in all phenomena. "Balance" means not falling into either extreme of samsara or nirvana; "rectitude" means simultaneous awareness of the ultimate truth and the conventional truth, without missing anything.

The "spiritual way of heaven" is inherent virtue, which includes the four qualities of eternity, happiness, selfhood, and purity; like the four seasons, these are orderly.

... the ancient buddhas examined the "regions" of possible experience and observed the people in various states of being, then set up various teachings to accommodate them, just as the wind travels over the earth reaching everywhere.

Those who are weak and lowly cannot see far, so they are ignorant like children. When undeveloped people are like children, this is not considered bad, but if developed people are like children, there is no way to govern nations and bring peace to earth.

The path of developed people is to cultivate themselves seriously and to regard the faults of others as their own.

To interpret the six lines in terms of contemplating mind;

the first represents ideal buddhahood, which is like being a child, without knowledge.

The second represents intellectual buddhahood, which is like a woman without real wisdom.

The third represents contemplative buddhahood, wich is just observing one's own mind.

The four represents semblance buddhahood, close to the real state.

The fifth represents partial realization of buddhahood, helping oneself and helping others.

The top line represents ultimate buddhahood, not grasping nirvana, observing all beings in the cosmos, manifesting compassion and innocence.

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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.

... 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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2 Earth earth below, earth above Cont.

... if we considerer Heaven to be the main practices and Earth the auxiliary practices, then the six lines of Earth represent the six ways of transcendence.

Giving is like treading on ice;

Discipline is like being "upright, straight, great". ... living according to orderly and harmonious patterns of conduct. ... embodying good ways... concern for all beings.

Patience is ... the greatest of strength.

Energy is... so that no truth shall escape one.

Meditation concentration is like wearing a "yellow lower garment", because the subtle concentration of central balance pervades the realm of realities.

Wisdom is like a dragon at war, because it destroys predatory passions.

Pure flexibility in correct balance is the epitome of harmonious adaptability.

Accurate attention to reality as it is is upright - this is the body of concentration. Goodness without lack is straight - this is the manifestation of concentration. Far-reaching virtue is great - this is the function of concentration.

If you grasp realization, you will fall into the states of those who opt for individual liberation; though they cannot be blamed for samsara, still they cannot be praised for helping others. If we can be mindful of the vow to help all beings, and not grasp as smallscale realization, then individual liberation will not harm the process of universal liberation.

Yellow is the color associated with the center, the qualitiy of the leader; ... since yellow is a symbol of the center.

Beautification with concentration and wisdom is called "culture". The totality of culture is in nature, so "the culture is in the center".

When good is consummate, then cutting off evil must come to an end; when evil is consummate, then cutting off good must come to an end.

Ascetics practicing step-by-step meditation who fall into uninterrupted hell all use concentration exclusively, not knowing how to balance it with wisdom; therefore they reach an impasse like this.

... it is beneficial to always be correct.

The written statement says: Earth is utterly soft, yet its movement is also firm; it is utterly quiet, yet its quality is straight. By following, it gains direction and has constancy. it embraces myriad beings and enlightens. The path of Earth is obedience, being receptive to the communications of Heaven and acting on them according to the time.

Without knowledge and wisdom, one cannot truly meditate,...

In Buddhist terms, good actions are good, bad actions are not good; noncontamination is good, contamination is not good; helping others is good, just helping oneself is not good; central balance is good, extremism is not good; complete balance is good, mere relative balance is not good. ... if the good controls what is not good, then what is not good is made good.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and it is necessary to make an early clarification of how to take that single step correctly.

Leaders make themselves upright within by sincerity, make themselves outwardly straight by justice.

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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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40 Solution water below, thunder above

... Going nowhere, coming back is fortunate. Going somewhere, promptness is fortunate.

... In wordly situation, there are never troublesome obstacles that last forever without resolution. On the verge of the solution, it is important that firmness and flexibility balance each other...

Solution means that yin and yang are in harmony.

Here, because firmness is balanced and cooperates with the flexibility,... there is naturally nothing to be suspicious of.

Yellow is the color associated with the center, ... By gaining the path of balance and straightforwardness, one gets rid of doubts and cooperates with wath is right.
It is rigtht to be humiliated.

... to balance yin and yang.
The developed person has a solution. The petty person withdraws.

At the time of solution, everyone happily acts as developed people do, all except the third yin, who flies to the attack, in conflict with reason.

... the third yin represents the confusion that is to be cured, and the other five lines represent curative methods.

The top yin uses correct transmundane concentration to overcome the false pride and false views of worldly meditation and worldly knowledge, so it is to the benefit of all.

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