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2009:17:02

Pi: Grace, Luxuriousness, Adornment

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Stillness without, radiance within; that is, Ken, the eldest son, the mountain as the outer face of the hexagram, Li, the middle daughter, radiance and fire as the inner face. The notes in the Willhelm/Baynes mention that Confucious was once uncomfortable on obtaining this hexagram, due to the danger of getting caught up in the form and forgetting the function. There are contexts and subtleties that we simply can't understand in the same way these things were understood thousands of years ago. That is why so often in this journey I return to basic, basic, basics. Stillness without, radiance within. Surely that describes a state of grace, and surely that is a state to seek. But one does not perform the work of the world from that state. Instead it is a place to visit, to refresh and restore one's spirit. Too many curliques and the ornament comes to outweigh the structure.

Soon it will change.

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