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"When non-involvement becomes a disease, laughter is the best medicine."
Yes you do that Dobro, anything to take your mind off human sacrifice, you were beginning to worry me
Yes you do that Dobro, anything to take your mind off human sacrifice, you were beginning to worry me
Well here we are at The End of Innocence, folks. what does it mean? I have this little four year old friend up the street and this guy is fed up with patronizing pats on the head and murmers about how sweet he is. Today he told me flat out he hit his little brother because, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." I couldn't argue with that and couldn't think of anything to say. Okay, so the Young Innocent is tried of getting by on his looks and if she's going to stay afloat, the Old Fool here realizes she better start reading up on the "many sayings of antiquity."
That is to say..
25.6 Being innocent doesn't cut it any more, time to Get Smart > 26.
I have this little four year old friend up the street and this guy is fed up with patronizing pats on the head and murmers about how sweet he is. Today he told me flat out he hit his little brother because, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." I couldn't argue with that and couldn't think of anything to say.
I have this little four year old friend up the street and this guy is fed up with patronizing pats on the head and murmers about how sweet he is. Today he told me flat out he hit his little brother because, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." I couldn't argue with that and couldn't think of anything to say. Okay, so the Young Innocent is tried of getting by on his looks and if she's going to stay afloat, the Old Fool here realizes she better start reading up on the "many sayings of antiquity."
The fact the little boy, in retrospect, can reflect about his "no-so-nice deed" doesn't take away the fact that at the moment his "innocent impulses" ruled his actions.
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Anyway 25,6 yes a time to be cunning and machiavellian (sp?) ?
Interesting idea, "A good excuse." What is a good excuse? I guess one that tells your version of what happened so clearly and cleanly that it glides right past all opposing ideas/ energy patterns? And what can get past anything? The Truth, right? It sets you free everytime. But who can tell The Truth so completely that It actually can do what it's proported to be able to do (get you out of any trouble)? Only one who is as innocent as a four year old! He told me, "It seemed like a good idea at the time," with complete trust in ME, I mean, he didn't come up with that phrase on it's own, he heard it from some adult and assumed it was a Worthy Reason to do Something Dumb. He trusted I would recognize this a s a legitamate, acceptable excuse, and so used one of "the many sayings of antiquity" and LO, it stopped me in my tracks!
Not sure what this signifies, but I thought it interesting.
This is incredibly helpful.Skipping it across the pond? You've inspired me to skip it across the great water and look where we're heading: 26. the hexagram that lauds the mind, just after 25 has practically praised ignorance! What's going on here? What is going to cause such a dramatic change in values???
Looking ahead at the lines of 25 it appears to me we are going to be following..
25.1 the story of a naive young soul who starts out with a fair amount of beginner's luck and good intentions.
25.2 He finds work to do he enjoys doing and his trusting nature leads him on. But before the harvest comes in and he can retire thinking life is just a bowl of cherries, every misfortune known to Adam falls upon him...
25.3 Other innocent souls just like himself walk off with his cow!
25.4 Fool doesn't know what else to do but just keeps on doing what he's always been doing only now he gets...
25.5 Illness...and it's still not his fault, he's done NOTHING WRONG..and sure enough his belief in his innocence strengthens him to persever but you know what..
26.6 Ultimately this Innocent Fool crap loses it's cache. "I'm tired of having my cows stolen, I'm tired of getting sick, surely there must be something I'm doing wrong or could be doing differently, 'cause Innocence may work in Heaven, but it's not working here on Earth!'
Well, interestingly enough,
25.Spring Fool Innocence (and inevitably, Really Dumb Avoidable Accidents) is followed by..
26. Major Restraint and that the key advice of Major Restraint's Image reads "Thus the superior man acquaints himelf with many sayings of antiquity andmany deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby." So the young Innocent starts to think and study what others have done in the past. He is no longer so in touch with his original unsullied streight from Heaven Purity, but now he may live a little longer when he learns the ways of Earthings..
Seems to be saying that while Innocence has it's season, we can't keep playing the "Opps, not my fault, it was an accident" card forever. Inevitably we can not evolve without somehow examining our "Accidents", learning where may be we were at fault. How'd we get that cow in the first place? Maybe we took it from someone else oursleves, before we knew about laws and karma. So we thought we were Innocent, but when we got tired enoough of being hurt we were willing to accept there might be something worth learning, we acquired the desire to learn to use our minds, dangerous to our inate virtue as that challenge might be.
26. Taming Power of the Great says I don't evolve beyond Innocence/Accidents until I digest the experiences of the past and learn from them. So here at 26. I must pause and consider the "Sayings of antiquity" and the "many deeds of the past" to see how others successfully negotiated this new challenge - that in my Innocence I have no prior experience with. Thus through study I can learn about cows and karma without having to actually make all the experiences myself.
Or at least I think that's what 26 is going to be about. No need to leap forward to 26 and debate that now. I haven't studied it, I'm just mulling over 25.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).