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So, I asked.
What is the 'Self', dear yi?
She says: 15.4
Line 4
'Nothing that does not bear fruit,
Displaying integrity.'
I must add, it comes from reading a little too much on the deKorne site
I keep telling people to NOT read the editors commentary on that site.
Unless you enjoy entering the mind of one person's reality/belief collage that has nothing to do with Yi and very often doesn't comprehend the meaning of the text.
There is such a thing as too much psychedelics, after all.
The True Self is non-dualistic, two complementary sides of the same Reality coin, the same as the Dao; while the false separate self is dualistic, two sides opposed in delusion, and known as ego.
"What is the 'Self'?"
15.4 to 62 ~ Form (Mountain) is the substance (Earth) of Emptiness; and Emptiness is the activity (Thunder) of Form (Mountain) ~ all things are moved from within by the Way.
Here’s some good background info on the differences between the Western/Judeo/Christian worldview and the Eastern worldview:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4ASBCguPYwDNU14NzJfX0pOTlE
In the 5th Wing (The Great Treatise, Dazhuan I, section V) of the i-Ching it says:
Line 1 ~ "Now Yin, now Yang, is called Dao"
~ and ~
Line 9 ~ "All that yin and yang do not define is called spirit."
In Chinese alchemical terms:
Line 1 refers to True Yin (Earth) and True Yang (Heaven) as the True Self, or Dao.
~ while ~
Line 9 refers to false yin (Water) and false yang (Fire) as ego, or 'not spirit.'
True Yin is Absence/Stillness/Formless (receiving ~ the “mysterious female” of the Dao De Jing)
~ and ~
True Yang is Presence/Movement/Form (creating ~ the “effortless action” of the male ~ “wu-wei”)
Chapter 40 of the Dao De Jing says:
“Return is the movement of Way,
and yielding the method of Way.
All beneath heaven, the ten thousand things: it’s all born of Presence,
and Presence is born of Absence.”
The small self, ego, arises as a veil of cognitively generated storybound separateness ~ thru grasping and dwelling on objects in the stream of thoughts ~ which is an error of “beguilement into vanity” that trades the True for the imagined, Paradise for desire, and Eternal Life for death.
false yin is materiality ~ clinging ~ dwelling on objects in the stream of thoughts ~ storytelling
~ and ~
false yang is self-interest ~ craving ~ grasping on objects in the stream of thoughts ~ pervasively unsatisfying
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4ASBCguPYwDVmRKcUQ0ODNTdjQ
So, a spiritual practice seeks to recover the True Self from behind the veil of the small self, ego, by ceasing grasping and dwelling on objects in the stream of thoughts, and choosing “Presence rooted in Absence” ~ aka Emptiness ~ instead.
I hope this helps!
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).