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‘No direction to pursue,
Stay in the centre and cook.
Constancy, good fortune.’
Hexagram 37, line 2
‘No direction to pursue,
Stay in the centre and cook.
Constancy, good fortune.’
37.2
‘Regrets vanish.
Your ancestor bites through the skin.
Why would going on be wrong?’
38.5
Hi Hilary:Bread and butter readings
... And it’s true, it is for these questions – and for the everyday. People need limitless explorations, and they also need to be fed; Yi responds to our needs.
... At the heart of these ordinary, domestic readings, there’s a rare gift: they can tap into deep wells of meaning.
...this article as a pdf
Here: Come cucinare la nostra vita
A quote taken from the site:
Xuedou Zongxian, 980-1052 of our era, known for his poems, was a Zen master of the Sung dynasty.
«All we encounter is our life.
How do we want to cook our life in its entirety?
The things, situations and people we meet every day in living are absolutely not in a uniform and regular order. No matter how hard we try to seek absolute truths with a thousand efforts, we will not be able to understand everything. When we look for immutable truths then we always fail.
The truth of life can only be found "in this wave, in the next", which means only in each of our activities down to the smallest and seemingly insignificant. Looking for the moonlight, we find it in every wave.»
Source: https://www.comecucinarelanostravita.it/come-me-la-cucino-tre/
[With the help of Google Translate]
There’s no call to charge off and explore the world; just stay home and put the rice on to boil. In other words, it is OK to ask about the ordinary, everyday stuff of just getting by.
Good point. But there would still be the similar point, that you don’t need to go on a year-long pilgrimage or seek out ayahuasca in the Amazon.I find 37.2 can be as much about staying home to attend to your spiritual or emotional needs as much as it can be about your physical needs.
The 5th line of 38 talks about ancestors eating the meat offering that is given to them as a sacrifice. If this line connects to 37.2 then 37.2 might point to the reason behind the preparation of food that it talks about: the character 饋 used in that sentence can also refer to ‘offering food to others’ – in this case the ancestors that were still regarded as part of the family. Kui 饋 is more than simply ‘cooking’ – it might refer to a whole ritual of entertaining guest and ancestors with the proper food, at the right time and circumstances.
Hi Trijina:I find 37.2 can be as much about staying home to attend to your spiritual or emotional needs as much as it can be about your physical needs.
All the best,La vida es como una receta, cada uno le encuentra su ingrediente secreto.
Life is like a recipe, each one finds its secret ingredient.
Source: Nina Laluna
Ch.HOW TO BECOME «BOOK TASTER»:
- Choose a book
- Sniff it!
- Test its smoothness
- Study it from different perspectives
- [continue with it]
- Now taste it! Take your time...
- Wait for an accurate digestion
- Unusual dancing
and yawling to the moon
are possible secondary effects.
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Source: Nina Laluna
Maslow's hierarchy of needs talks about us not fully functioning at the higher levels until our needs have been met in the lower, i.e.we cannot truly begin to feel safe until our needs for food, water, warmth and rest have been met to a good enough level, and so on up the triangle.There’s no call to charge off and explore the world; just stay home and put the rice on to boil. In other words, it is OK to ask about the ordinary, everyday stuff of just getting by.
his article as a pdf
Yes. How about The SlowMa Hierarchy of Needs? - sounds much better for the marketing boys to get their teeth into. " Cooking the old fashioned way at Slow Ma's - Authentic Chinese recipes guaranteed.Are you thinking we need to reshuffle Maslow? Perhaps we do. It's no use worrying about how to grow potatoes unless you first cultivate your relationship with ancestors who can sort out some rain when you need it.
Hi Michael:...
And to top it all, it would be a real shame to go to the trouble of catching, gutting and plucking that chicken only to find that the ancestors are vegetarian. ...
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