Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
‘Not yet across, creating success.
The small fox, almost across,
Soaks its tail:
No direction bears fruit.’
‘The basic meaning: no goal you set under these circumstances will help. No amount of planning and intending, no purposeful action, will get you out of this.’
‘But there is also a secondary meaning that might sometimes apply: perhaps being without a direction might in itself bear fruit. It’s worth trying a thought experiment to see how the situation would look if you had no agenda: ‘If I saw a stranger in this situation, how would I advise her?’ Free from the constraints of an original intent, your intuition might engage more directly and spontaneously with the changing reality.’
‘The ram butts the hedge.
Cannot pull back, cannot follow through,
No direction bears fruit.
Hardship, and hence good fortune.’
‘Even when his horns become hooks he will not be inclined to pause and ponder the problems, or the curve of his horns. He will not be free until he, or the shepherd, or maybe the predator, turns his head around. He can do this indirectly by trying different perspectives, or seeing things from new angles, or questioning old directions, or simply pausing to have a quick look around. Sometimes to find the objective one needs to drop the objective and bring out those other dimensions.’
‘Not yet across, creating success.
The small fox, almost across,
Soaks its tail:
No direction bears fruit.’
‘Marrying maiden. To set out to bring order: pitfall.
No direction is fruitful.’
‘Rejecting nourishment.
Constancy, pitfall.
For ten years, don’t act.
No direction bears fruit.’
‘Deep into lasting.
Constancy, pitfall.
No direction bears fruit.’
‘Sweetness nearing,
No direction bears fruit.
Already grieving it, no mistake.’
‘The woman offers a basket with no contents.
The gentleman sacrifices a goat with no blood.
No direction bears fruit.’
‘Don’t take this woman.
Sees a man of bronze,
And there is no self.
No direction bears fruit.’
‘Now gathering, now lamenting.
No direction bears fruit.
Going on, no mistake.
Small shame.’
‘Without entanglement. Acting brings blunders.
No direction bears fruit.’
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).