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I think he would have done much better had he gotten his hands on a copy of the I Ching
I still maintain that it is the imperfections of reality that keeps the universe spinning. If Yin and Yang are in perfect balance everything stops -- total stasis. But that is not what we perceive. Things keep moving because there is a slight positive spin to everything. Within the cycles of the world there is alternation, so the four seasons progress and Yin and Yang interchange the dominant place. But in the overall, the Cosmos conceived as a whole, Yang dominates ever so slightly, keeping things off balance, and thus in motion. I say this based on a simple and rather subjective finding in my own studies. Some years ago I conducted a study of the judgment and line texts of the Yi and assigned numbers to each one according to the divining tags (things like good fortune, misfortune, no blame, etc.). and other factors. When you put all those numbers together there are just slightly more positive texts than there are negatives (less than 1% difference). In a perfect system of 64 hexagrams you would expect an exact 50/50 split. But no, the sages wrote the texts in such as way that they reflect reality. They reflect reality so perfectly that they even reflect that tiny flaw in the crystal, that little crooked spot in each of the infinity of snowflakes. That is what I mean by the intertia of the universe is based on imperfection.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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