Daozen
12th December 2013, 14:50
This thread is for ongoing experiments causing positive change using symbols, pictures, poems, and anything else you care to use.
If only one person joins in it'll be worth the effort.
There are no set dates and times, the experiment is ongoing and free flowing.
Please feel free to use a symbol from any culture or system.
The first symbol I chose is hexagram 51 from the I Ching. It's a Hexagram that means a quick, positive change.
If you have any spare gnosis to focus, please enjoy...
(If you want to bring in other symbols from other cultures or systems, please do so.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Iching-hexagram-51.svg/500px-Iching-hexagram-51.svg.png
51. Chên / The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)
above CHÊN THE AROUSING, THUNDER
below CHÊN THE AROUSING, THUNDER
The hexagram Chên represents the eldest son, who seizes rule with energy
and power. A yang line develops below two yin lines and presses upward forcibly.
This movement is so violent that it arouses terror. It is symbolized by thunder,
which bursts forth from the earth and by its shock causes fear and trembling.
THE JUDGMENT
SHOCK brings success.
Shock comes— oh, oh!
Laughing words— ha, ha!
The shock terrifies for a hundred miles,
And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.
The shock that comes from the manifestation of God within the depths of the
earth makes man afraid, but this fear of God is good, for joy and merriment
can follow upon it. When a man has learned within his heart what fear and
trembling mean, he is safeguarded against any terror produced by outside
influences. Let the thunder roll and spread terror a hundred miles around:
he remains so composed and reverent in spirit that the sacrificial rite is not
interrupted. This is the spirit that must animate leaders and rulers of men—
a profound inner seriousness from which all terrors glance off harmlessly.
THE IMAGE
Thunder repeated: the image of SHOCK.
Thus in fear and trembling
The superior man sets his life in order
And examines himself.
The shock of continuing thunder brings fear and trembling. The superior man
is always filled with reverence at the manifestation of God; he sets his life
in order and searches his heart, lest it harbor any secret opposition to the
will of God. Thus reverence is the foundation of true culture.
*
Kuan Yin
http://journeyingtothegoddess.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/20081206093759.jpg?w=422&h=616
If only one person joins in it'll be worth the effort.
There are no set dates and times, the experiment is ongoing and free flowing.
Please feel free to use a symbol from any culture or system.
The first symbol I chose is hexagram 51 from the I Ching. It's a Hexagram that means a quick, positive change.
If you have any spare gnosis to focus, please enjoy...
(If you want to bring in other symbols from other cultures or systems, please do so.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Iching-hexagram-51.svg/500px-Iching-hexagram-51.svg.png
51. Chên / The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)
above CHÊN THE AROUSING, THUNDER
below CHÊN THE AROUSING, THUNDER
The hexagram Chên represents the eldest son, who seizes rule with energy
and power. A yang line develops below two yin lines and presses upward forcibly.
This movement is so violent that it arouses terror. It is symbolized by thunder,
which bursts forth from the earth and by its shock causes fear and trembling.
THE JUDGMENT
SHOCK brings success.
Shock comes— oh, oh!
Laughing words— ha, ha!
The shock terrifies for a hundred miles,
And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.
The shock that comes from the manifestation of God within the depths of the
earth makes man afraid, but this fear of God is good, for joy and merriment
can follow upon it. When a man has learned within his heart what fear and
trembling mean, he is safeguarded against any terror produced by outside
influences. Let the thunder roll and spread terror a hundred miles around:
he remains so composed and reverent in spirit that the sacrificial rite is not
interrupted. This is the spirit that must animate leaders and rulers of men—
a profound inner seriousness from which all terrors glance off harmlessly.
THE IMAGE
Thunder repeated: the image of SHOCK.
Thus in fear and trembling
The superior man sets his life in order
And examines himself.
The shock of continuing thunder brings fear and trembling. The superior man
is always filled with reverence at the manifestation of God; he sets his life
in order and searches his heart, lest it harbor any secret opposition to the
will of God. Thus reverence is the foundation of true culture.
*
Kuan Yin
http://journeyingtothegoddess.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/20081206093759.jpg?w=422&h=616