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What is the quality of my creative outputs?
Yi said: 51 unchanging.
Ben: Are you really going to publish this?
Me: Yes.
Ben: Why?
Me: Because I want them to ponder the deeper meaning behind the words.
Ben: But there is no deeper meaning.
Me: Yes, but they don't know that.
Jimi Hendrix (playing with his teeth, and "s'cuse me while I kiss the sky!")
The Zen master Daisetz Suzuki once narrated an interesting story. A young student said to his master, "Am I in possession of Buddha consciousness?" The master said, "No." The student said, "Well, I've been told that all things are in possession of Buddha consciousness. The rocks, the trees, the butterflies, the birds, the animals, all beings." The master said, "You are correct. All things are in possession of Buddha consciousness. The rocks, the trees, the butterflies, the bees, the birds, the animals, all beings-but not you." "Not me? Why not?" "Because you are asking this question."
According to legend, Buddha was born from the right side of his mother. Immediately upon his birth, he stood up and took seven steps, and wherever his feet touched the earth lotuses sprang up. Raising his finger he said: "Worlds above, worlds below, there's no one in the world like me."
Finally, Suzuki elaborated. "They tell me that when a baby is born, it cries. What does the baby say when it cries? The baby says 'Worlds above, worlds below, there's no one in the world like me!' All babies are Buddha babies." So what was the distinguishing characteristic of Queen Maya's baby? He knew that he was a Buddha baby. According to Joseph Campbell, "The whole thing of Buddha consciousness means getting to know you are it. That takes a lot of work, principally because society keeps telling you that you are not it."
From the symbol: The hexagram symbolizes continuous thunder. The Superior Man in fear and trembling seeks to improve himself. (Blofeld, I Ching)As it is incredibly hard to get honest feedback, especially from family and friends (noone will tell you if your work is rubbish, will they?), I decided to ask Yi: What is the quality of my creative outputs?
Yi said: 51 unchanging.
From the symbol: The hexagram symbolizes continuous thunder. The Superior Man in fear and trembling seeks to improve himself. (Blofeld, I Ching)
My interpretation of H22 would have been that your work was superficially attractive and beautiful, but not too deep.what work doesn't need improving?
(I suppose if I had gotten 22 I could have just said, there, I are a genius and that would have been it? )
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).