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The Best Kept Secret of Life

Tumah

Veteran Member
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Tumah

Veteran Member
Psalm 25 says 'the secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him'
In Hebrew, I believe, the word for secret is like pillow as they inclined together as they would eat
leaning perhaps on a pillow and in close intimate conversation might share 'secrets'

Well there's another one of your beliefs that has no rational basis.
 
The Man-Made Bāguà 1 (The Evil Thoughts)

What about the three lines in a man-made trigram (guà)? Are they inner voices too?

Yes, they are also voices from within; and to be exact, very loud and imposing voices from a parallel world created artificially by human.

They too interact with each other -- using the go/stop voting system -- to generate an abnormal three-beat pulse, which competes fiercely with the normal three-beat pulse of the natural world for the grand price -- the master of one’s fate.

The man-made world also has a base -- an emotional thatch (a hardened layer of extreme motions) that replaces the earthly base as one’s operating platform. The bottom thatch-line is a radical voice; reflecting its extreme stands.

A go thatch-line stands for a far-right position, a synonym for -- fascism / dictatorship / tyranny / oppression / repression / bureaucracy / control / cruelty.

A stop thatch-line represents a far-left stand, a synonym for – anarchy / lawlessness / chaos / rebellion / mob rule / reign of terror / turmoil / hostility.

The middle line represents an unjustified past, accumulated emotions trapped by an emotional thatch, which severs the earth-heaven link that powers the emotion cycle. The middle soggy-line is a cynical voice; reflecting a saturated emotional state with limited capacity for new stuffs.

A go soggy-line signals the release of the extreme emotion buildup within; driving an offensive behaviour, identifiable as being -- abusive / irritating / obnoxious / rude / stinking / rotten / nauseating / repulsive.

A stop soggy-line signals a closed mind to avoid the pains of taking in new stuffs; yielding a defensive behaviour, recognizable as being – opposing / averting / guarding / uptight / interrupting / resistive / preventive / balking.

The top line signifies a powerful suction that pulls everything inward to satisfy an insatiable desire to possess. The black-hole phenomenon is caused by a highly dense mass of trapped-emotions, whose suction is powerful enough to cut one off from the reality (a yīn-yáng world) created by Dào. The top undercurrent-line is marked by wild mood swings; inflicted by powerful undercurrents.

A go undercurrent-line warns of a destructive growth that flattens everything in sight. A stop undercurrent-line tips of a deep depression that cuts one off from the real world.

In a nutshell, a man-made guà is a path to hell meted out from a radical platform, saturated with trapped emotions and dictated by strong undercurrents.

As such, the thoughts spewed out from this distorted world are inherently extreme (because of the imbalance stand), toxic (caused by the lack of emotion refreshment), and infectious (due to the pull of a highly dense mass of trapped emotions).

In short, a man-made guà is an evil-thoughts generator.
 
The Man-Made Bāguà 2 (The Bad Bāguà Effects)

The good bāguà effects are evidences of a natural way of life. In contrast, the bad bāguà effects signal the rise of an altered ego, an ego inflated with trapped emotion.

Which means the bad bāguà behaviors are the symptoms of an evil growth. So, just like any other major disorders, early detection is the best way to curb its growth.

Here is a list of the bad bāguà symptoms.

1. A wild Heaven (天, ☰: go-go-go): A runaway expansion.
A control freak in an offensive mode; driven mindlessly by a powerful undercurrent.
The mindless expansionist acts just like a growing snowball, which rolls down a hill uncontrollably, destroys everything in sight, and ends inevitably with a bang at the bottom of the hill.

2. A depressed Earth (地, ☷: stop-stop-stop): A deep depression.
A disorderly person who closes their minds in a depression.
The depressed screwed up is like an outlaw who imprisons themselves with regrets.

3. A volatile Water (水, ☵: stop-go-stop): A volatile emotional state.
An unruly character who bullies while in a depression.
The depressed bully is a trouble maker, who terrorizes habitually by continuously disrupting peace and stability, theirs as well as others’.

4. An out-of-control Fire (火, ☲: go-stop-go): A stressful state.
An aggressor who resists the urge to expand.
The wound up state is like a pressure cooker, which cooks by raising temperature with internal pressure built up by the steam.

5. A tormenting Thunder (雷, ☳: go-stop-stop): Excessive worrying.
A control freak who closes up in a depression.
The depressed slave-driver inflicts pain upon themselves, by stirring up the ****s trapped within.

6. A crippled Mountain (山, ☶: stop-stop-go): A jammed state.
A rebel who goes against the strong undercurrent within.
The internal struggle often blinds one from the many divine messages popping up in their surroundings.

7. An ever-changing Wind (風, ☴: stop-go-go): An opportunist outlook.
An unruly character who preys in an expansive mode.
The predator is an opportunist who gains advantages at the expense of ethics or morals.

8. An uninhabited Swamp (澤, ☱: go-go-stop): A marshy growth.
An expansionist who grows indiscriminately in a depression.
The indiscriminate growth produces a marsh-like state; carpeted with mosses, and punctuated with islands.

If a natural way of life is the reward for taking orders from Dào, a hellish life must then be the aftermath for surrendering to a devilish ego. But, both are extreme cases. In reality, most people are living a twilight zone; caught in between the natural and evil worlds.

Mr Fúxī equated the twilight zone to a hexagram; and offered advises in six poetic lines on how best to deal with it.

Still, what exactly are they? The hexagrams? The six poetic lines?

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Kelloggs

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I am a super fan of I-Ching. So, there will be lots of it from now on; enough to bore you to death. But, if you can survive the boredom, the untold story will definitely spice up the way you look at life. Because that’s the “hidden agenda” of I-Ching – to spice up people’s lives.

I-Ching? They call it the “Book of Changes”, a Chinese classic aged over five thousand years old. It is said to be the best kept secret of life; because the whole book is filled with riddles; thereby subjecting itself to all kinds of interpretation.

My take on I-Ching is its 3-D energy model that tracks all the possible changes in one’s lifetime as a growing human universe.

According to I-Ching -- a perfect human universe comprises a stable base, a justified past, and an expanding future; or, a 3-D (three dimensional) existence that guarantees a happy and fulfilled life.

Unfortunately, life is never perfect in reality. For most of us, if there is indeed a human universe, it is either distorted or dysfunctional.

That’s where I-Ching comes in as a solutions provider.

In this context, I started coining names for I-Ching, one each for different interest groups.

For the spirited – Sixty-four ways to Heaven.
For the down and out – Quick fixes for Screw-ups in Life.
For the ambitious – A Guide on Growing a Large-than-life Life.
For the scientific-minded – A Construction Manual for a Human Universe.

I guess I have a lot of explanations to do for calling names.

Where do I begin?
Well... what's in it for me?
 
The Inspired Change A (易: An Elixir of Life)

The Chinese loves changes. They even have a word for every imaginable change, designed cleverly to implant the mode, and fashionably to capture the mood, of the change; for examples,

變 (biàn): A shocking change that raps (攵) to disrupt order (䜌); like 变心 (biànxīn): a change of heart that rocks a relationship.

換 (huàn): A progressive change that courts (扌) excellence (奐); like 换季 (huànjì): changing wardrobe to keep up with the latest seasonal trend.

更 (gēng): A natural (丿丶) change triggered off (由) by a limit (一); like 更代 (gēngdài): replacing one with another to refresh a cycle.

改 (gǎi): A directional change that strikes (攵) at the halfway mark (己); like 改行 (gǎiháng): changing profession presumably for a better prospect.

But, 易 (yì) beats them all as the No.1 word for “change”, as it offers 64 modes to change for the better, especially attractive for those who are down-and-out.

Also, it titles a classic for thousands of years, which grows a simple yīn-yáng concept into a doctrine with a worldwide following, and is still evolving promisingly into a miraculous cure for all human ills.

An elixir of life (长生不老葯, chángshēngbùlǎo yào)? Maybe it is just a wishful thinking, but if it is true, then “joy to the world”.

True or false, it is best to let 易 (yì) speaks for itself.

易 (yì): change / easy / simple

日 (rì): sun / day / daytime

勿 (wù): must not / do not / without / never

(ctext.org)
 
The Inspired Change B (日: The Sun Part 1)

日 (rì) means the Sun.

“The sun at the heart of our solar system is a yellow dwarf star, a hot ball of glowing gases. Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything from the biggest planets to the smallest particles of debris in its orbit. Electric currents in the sun generate a magnetic field that is carried out through the solar system by the solar wind — a stream of electrically charged gas blowing outward from the sun in all directions.”

(solarsystem.nasa.gov)

To I-Ching, Sun is Heaven, and Heaven is Sun. Then, what is said of the Sun should tell on Heaven too.

That assumption turns out to be the key that unlocks I-Ching’s secret world; conceptually as a sun-driven, ever-expanding human universe, realizable as an enlarged presence resulted from a huge mind explosion, practicable and perfectible as an art of living that can transform anybody into a “body-less” existence, a grounded, spiritual being living a larger-than-life life.

Now, let’s see what the Sun has to say about Heaven.

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The Inspired Change B-2 (日: The Sun Part 2)

“Sun is the heart of the solar system” rhymes with “Heaven is the heart of the human universe”, which implies “whoever gets Heaven gets the universe”.

The Sun’s enormous mass in the Solar System (99.86%) -- translated as a huge amount of resources, high visibility, and easy accessibility – makes this mission to court Heaven even more inviting.

“Sun is a hot ball of glowing gas” tells of a fast-expanding Heaven (a hot object expands, and a very hot object expands very fast), which tallies with I-Ching’s ever-growing human universe -- driven by an external life-force (Dào, 道) a million times the size of the internal life-force (qì, 氣) -- which then makes Heaven the pacer, and human the racer.

The vast difference between the temperatures of the Sun (top 15 million degrees Celsius) and Earth (no more than 58 degrees Celsius) lends support to this pacing-Dào-racing-Qì model.

“The Solar system is held together by the Sun’s gravity” suggests that deviating from the heavenly path will cause the collapse of a human universe, a tragic fate I-Ching dedicated to avert by uncovering all possible ways to diffuse the threat.

Moreover, staying within the orbit of Heaven guarantees a perpetual, natural way of life, an outlook embodied by the Sun’s perfect sphere, a symbol for a continuous loop of natural life cycles.
 
The Inspired Change B-3 (日: The Sun Part 3)

“The Sun’s strong magnetic field” supports the model of an earth-heaven magnet – a human magnet that magnetizes the extremes-rich human domain with an earth (south), heaven (north) link -- which powerfully transforms a southward-bound failure into a north-heading success.

“The all-around, outward blowing of the solar wind” showcases the magnetic treatment – the inside is relentlessly bombarded with forces of nature from the outside – which naturalizes the extremes inside, and revitalizes the entire human system.

Furthermore, the Sun is superrich in Hydrogen (70%) -- a colourless, odourless, tasteless, non-toxic, non-metallic, highly combustible diatomic gas, the lightest element on the periodic table -- and Helium (30%) -- a colourless, odourless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas, the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table.

Correspondingly, Heaven is supersaturated with the simplest, yet highly reactive, yīn-yáng data (as building blocks of the human universe), and absolute truths (as inert materials for constructing a solid foundation to support the growth of the universe).

So far so good. Let’s see if the similes also match the definitions of 日 (rì).
 
The Inspired Change C-1 (日: An Invisible Guru)

日:實也。太陽之精不虧。从囗一。象形。

a) 實也 (shí yě): It brings realization, solidifies stuffs, and makes one honest.

實 (shí): real / solid / honest
實 strings (貫) inside (冖) and outside (亠) into one continuous space; best visualized as a factory, a semi-enclosed space for processing raw materials into useful products.

• The inside (冖) is isolated by an emotion thatch – a layer of negatives amassed over time -- that disrupts (left丿) and dictates (right 丿).
• It is a Pandora’s Box, where evils are kept.
• The outside (亠) is where inspirations (丶) reside, accessible by breaking through the emotion thatch (一).
• It is a resource centre, where hopes lie.

That makes 實 the sun’s lock-breaking mechanism, prying open the evil box with powerful natural pulses, and bringing hope to human.

Hope, however, means different things to different people.

For those desperately in need of help, it is a divine intervention that miraculously resolves the seemingly unresolvable.

For most, it is an inspiration flow that realizes extremes, solidifies ideas, and exposes unknowns.

For the experienced, it is an invisible guru, not just to answer calls 24/7 on any subject under the sun, but also volunteers stop/go signals -- convertible to painful reminders, or merciless corrective actions, if the signals are ignored – to facilitate human realizing their missions in life.
 
The Inspired Change C-2 A (日: The Pulsating Nourishment)

b) 太陽之精不虧 (tàiyángzhījīng bù kuī): The spirit of the sun is inexhaustible.

精 (jīng): essence / semen / spirit
精 is a divine nourishment (米) that greens (青).

The divine nourishment (米) drives outside (丿丶), and bombards inside (丷), with natural pulses to create perfection (十), a natural (一) and magnetized (丨) state.

While driving outside (丿丶), a natural pulse closes/opens doors; nudging one towards one’s destiny. And, when bombarding inside (丷), it excites with motives to arouse action, and cools down with restraints to consolidate.

The outside job is often shrouded in mystery, as an invisible hand is at work, hence is beyond one’s control. The inside mechanism involves regulating qì-flow in response to the outside stimuli, hence is subjected to human interference.

An uncoordinated outside-inside job causes deviation (from destination), a major source for misfortune.

On the other hand, pulsating with the divine nourishment (米) leads to a cloning process, which moulds human in the image of Heaven, as a strong force of nature.
 
The Inspired Change C-2 B (日: The Greening Effect)

Greening (青) is an attempt to mitigate, or even reverse, the damages inflicted by human on their natural worlds, by naturalizing (月) with a dominant, earth-heaven magnet (龶).

Naturalization (月) mimics the endless looping of the lunar phases, bombarding the inside with natural pulses to swing one’s mood like a pendulum -- from one end to another repeatedly -- until one dances to its tune.

Meanwhile, the earth-heaven magnet (龶) exerts its dominance through its vector filed, which magnetizes by dictating direction with powerful pulses; often manifested as stop/go signals for the compliant, carrot and stick for the neutral, and death and rebirth for the recalcitrant.

So, a spirit (精) is a pulsating nourishment that naturalizes and magnetizes.

That makes the spirit of the Sun (太陽之精) the Sun’s semen, bearing its DNA, and reproducing itself in human as a hero, a person with a mission fighting for a just cause.

And, the Sun is an infinite source of this almighty force of nature.
 

DavidFirth

Well-Known Member
You were right this I-Ching stuff is so boring that I'm glad I didn't have to read more than 2 pages of it.

Hasta Luego
 
Dear DavidFirth,

Congratulation for having found your faith in Psalms.

But, what puzzles me is, as a self-professed religious person, how come you can be so closed minded about other belief systems, and such a vicious cyber bully.

I-Ching says that closed-mindedness indicates the presence of an emotion thatch – a hardened layer of negatives, comprising extreme emotions, unresolved issues, half-truths, distorted thoughts, and trivialities – which traps and amasses highly toxic emotions, fueling ugly, vicious behaviors.

May I suggest that you dig deep into your belief system for help to unlock your Pandora’s Box; so that you can refresh and enrich yourself, and live up to your faith.
 

DavidFirth

Well-Known Member
Dear DavidFirth,

Congratulation for having found your faith in Psalms.

But, what puzzles me is, as a self-professed religious person, how come you can be so closed minded about other belief systems, and such a vicious cyber bully.

I-Ching says that closed-mindedness indicates the presence of an emotion thatch – a hardened layer of negatives, comprising extreme emotions, unresolved issues, half-truths, distorted thoughts, and trivialities – which traps and amasses highly toxic emotions, fueling ugly, vicious behaviors.

May I suggest that you dig deep into your belief system for help to unlock your Pandora’s Box; so that you can refresh and enrich yourself, and live up to your faith.

I have said nothing about faith. I simply said that this stuff bores me to tears.

And, yes, the writings of the prophet David still ring true today. In them you can see that to search anywhere but God's holy prophecy is unwise.
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I have said nothing about faith. I simply said that this stuff bores me to tears.

And, yes, the writings of the prophet David still ring true today. In them you can see that to search anywhere but God's holy prophecy is unwise.
But the very existence of this God you base your beliefs on is in question, as is the prophesy you cite.

Before we can have any rational discussion on this subject we have to agree on certain premises.

First, defend the premises you base your arguments on, then, we can argue about the particulars.
 
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