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Hi All,
Through the kind auspices of Lindsay and translations of Thomas Merton I believe I might have found something with which we may still beat gently upon this dead horse. The following has a great deal to say about action/inaction, and since it derives also from Asian esoterics I thought it might help shed some light upon Hexs with no moving lines. With your kind permission i humbly submit the following from Chuang Tzu via T. Merton,(Where the sage is mentioned, substitute the Yi. Lines 19 and 20 I found to be especially pertinent)
Action & Non-Action
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction.
It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything.
The sage is quiet because he is not moved,
Not because he wills to be quiet.
Still water is like glass.
You can look in it and see the bristles on your chin.
It is a perfect level,
How much more the spirit of man?
The heart of the wise man is tranquil.
It is the mirror of heaven and earth ~
the glass of everything.
Emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness,
Silence, non-action: this is the level of heaven and earth.
This is the perfect tao.
Wise men find here their resting place.
Resting, they are empty.
From emptiness comes the unconditioned.
From this, the conditioned, the individual things.
So from the sage's emptiness, stillness arises:
From stillness, action. From action, attainment.
From their stillness comes their non-action, which is also action
And is, therefore, their attainment.
For stillness is joy. Joy is free from care
Fruitful in long years.
Joy does all things without concern:
For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness,
Silence and non-action
Are the root of all things.
~ Chuang Tzu
Interpreted by Thomas Merton
~ in Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
Namaste,
Leonard
Through the kind auspices of Lindsay and translations of Thomas Merton I believe I might have found something with which we may still beat gently upon this dead horse. The following has a great deal to say about action/inaction, and since it derives also from Asian esoterics I thought it might help shed some light upon Hexs with no moving lines. With your kind permission i humbly submit the following from Chuang Tzu via T. Merton,(Where the sage is mentioned, substitute the Yi. Lines 19 and 20 I found to be especially pertinent)
Action & Non-Action
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction.
It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything.
The sage is quiet because he is not moved,
Not because he wills to be quiet.
Still water is like glass.
You can look in it and see the bristles on your chin.
It is a perfect level,
How much more the spirit of man?
The heart of the wise man is tranquil.
It is the mirror of heaven and earth ~
the glass of everything.
Emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness,
Silence, non-action: this is the level of heaven and earth.
This is the perfect tao.
Wise men find here their resting place.
Resting, they are empty.
From emptiness comes the unconditioned.
From this, the conditioned, the individual things.
So from the sage's emptiness, stillness arises:
From stillness, action. From action, attainment.
From their stillness comes their non-action, which is also action
And is, therefore, their attainment.
For stillness is joy. Joy is free from care
Fruitful in long years.
Joy does all things without concern:
For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness,
Silence and non-action
Are the root of all things.
~ Chuang Tzu
Interpreted by Thomas Merton
~ in Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
Namaste,
Leonard