Master of the Wave

Surfin'

 शून्यता (śūnyatā), Alex Grey

Ovꣲ (ऑवँ/ओवन): LG WaveDom (ॐ波 : Wave d'Om) 

엘지 

LG

럭키금성 Lucky Venus

樂喜金星，Lucky-GoldStar，簡稱樂金、LG

樂金電子

Electrons act like little magnets, and magnetic fields arise from rotating charged bodies.

The thing is ― void above matter ― a complete, mature and neutral 'empty-of-matter' force and field (the vacuum left between the two magnetised 陰 forces), apt to partly morph itself into anything ― depending on the circumstances ― from its own compassion and volition (@離 ䷝ ionisation 30), with the local harbour guidance of the pilot.

ओम ॐ

GGG

The Code & the Carrier

Carrier-wave/Onde porteuse

“Things on a very small scale behave like nothing we have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or anything that we have ever seen.”

― Richard Feynman

The signals that GPS satellites transmit to Earth arrive in two components. One is the unique series of ones and zeros, known as the code, that each GPS satellite transmits. The second is a shorter-wavelength “carrier” signal that transmits the code from the satellite. Because the carrier signal has a shorter wavelength — a mere 20 centimetres — compared with the longer wavelength of the code, which can be tens or hundreds of meters, the carrier signal offers a high-resolution way to pinpoint a spot on Earth’s surface. 

The signal of an AM radio station on the MW band.

Time runs from up to down, with frequency from left to right.

The strong vertical line in the centre, artificially coloured red, is the carrier wave at 558 kHz;

the two mirrored audio spectra (green) are the lower and upper sidebands.

䷼ 中孚 周易第六十一卦，稱為歸中。

➥ 爪 + 子. The original form of 俘 ➨ prisoner of war/take as prisoner

(literary) to convince; to gain trust 

深孚眾望  ―  shēnfúzhòngwàng  ―  to enjoy great popularity

(literary) trust; confidence

A more particular mantic appreciation: 有孚 "Carrier wave" ― (otherwise, 載波) a wave that can be modulated, either in amplitude, frequency, or phase, to carry or transmit images, music, speech, or any other signals ― is apart from the other formulas and mantic terms of the 周易 because the positive and/or negative orientation that it may indicate depends on the circumstance, therefore on the entire hexagram, as well as the position of any of the lines in an hexagram.

These mantic modulations are 6 in number, or rather 5 full + one empty. 

Numbers that are not without symbolic meaning since the 6 is the treble clef of the hexagrams and the 5 the numerical emblem of all that is organized in a dynamic and fruitful way ➨ Big V ䷱ 鼎 50 to ䷺ 渙 59 + ䷻ 節 60

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a long polymer made from repeating units called nucleotides and composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids. Alongside proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), nucleic acids are one of the four major macromolecules essential for all known forms of life.

The structure of DNA is dynamic along its length, capable of coiling into tight loops and other shapes. In all species, it is composed of two helical chains, bound to each other by hydrogen bonds. Both chains are coiled around the same axis and have the same pitch of 34 ångströms (3.4 nm). The pair of chains have a 10 Å (1.0 nm) radius. According to another study, when measured in a different solution, the DNA chain measured 22–26 Å (2.2–2.6 nm) wide, and one nucleotide unit measured 3.3 Å (0.33 nm) long.

Nucleobase classification

The nucleobases are classified into two types: the purines, A and G, which are fused five- and six-membered heterocyclic compounds, and the pyrimidines, the six-membered rings C and T. A fifth pyrimidine nucleobase, uracil (U), usually takes the place of thymine in RNA and differs from thymine by lacking a methyl group on its ring.

Twin helical strands form the DNA backbone. Another double helix may be found tracing the spaces, or grooves, between the strands. These voids are adjacent to the base pairs and may provide a binding site. As the strands are not symmetrically located with respect to each other, the grooves are unequally sized. 

GGG

L'Écume des jours

"The froth of days"

常道。常名

Constance of Vibration & Constance of Resonance

 

觀 Quantasphere: for the Sake of It, Here I Care

世 Atmosphere:   for the Love of It, Here I Breath

音 Biosphere:       for the Life of It, Here I Am

The Magic Galactic Hexagon

ㅤ"The solar system and the galaxy. The plane of the solar system is tilted at 60.0 degrees to the plane of the galaxy. The midwinter sun is shown lined up with the centre of the galaxy, an alignment which occurs every 25,700 years and which peaked at the midsummer eclipse of 1999."  

The Remarkable Emptiness of Existence

Early scientists did not know it, but we do now: the void in the universe is alive.

by Paul M. Sutter

January 4, 2023

Arcturian Light Codes, Talon Abraxas M/J

In December 2022, an international team of astronomers released the results of their latest survey of galaxies, a work which confirmed that the vacuum of spacetime wreaks havoc across the universe. They found that matter makes only a minor contribution to the energy budget of the universe up. Instead, most of the energy within the cosmos is contained in a vacuum, and that energy dominates the future evolution of the universe.

That contribution is the latest in a string of discoveries stretching back over two decades. In the late 1990s, two independent teams of astronomers had already discovered that the universe's expansion was accelerating, i.e. our universe grows quicker and faster by the day. The exact present-day expansion rate is still a matter of debate among cosmologists, but the reality is apparent: Something makes the universe blow up. It appears as a repulsive gravitational force which has been named dark energy.

The trick here is that the vacuum, first demonstrated by Otto von Guericke in 1654, is not as empty as it seems. If we were to take a box (or, following Otto von Guericke’s example, two hemispheres), and remove everything from it, including all the particles, all the light, just everything, we would not be left with ― strictly speaking ― nothing. We would be left with the vacuum of spacetime itself, which is an entity in its own right.

As we live in a quantum universe, nothing is ascertained. At the tiniest of scales, subatomic particles fizz and pop into existence, briefly experiencing the world of the living before returning back from where they came ― disappearing from reality before they have a chance to meaningfully interact with anything else.

This phenomenon has been given various names: quantum foam, spacetime foam, and vacuum fluctuations. This foam represents fundamental energy to the vacuum of spacetime itself, a bare ground level on which all other physical interactions take place. In the language of quantum field theory ― the offspring of the marriage of quantum mechanics and special relativity ― quantum fields representing every kind of particle soak the vacuum of spacetime like crusty bread dipped in oil and vinegar. Those fields cannot help but vibrate at a fundamental, quantum level. In this view, the vacuum is singing to us, a harmony underlying reality itself.

Thanks to the most advanced quantum theories, we can calculate the energy contained in the vacuum, and it is infinite. As in, suffusing every cubic centimetre of space and time is an infinite amount of energy, the combined efforts of all those countless but effervescent particles. This is not necessarily a problem for the physics we are used to, because all the interactions of everyday experience sit “on top of” (for lack of a better term) that infinite tower of energy ― it just makes the math a real pain to work with.

All this would be mathematically annoying ― but otherwise unremarkable ― except for the fact that in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, vacuum energy has the curious ability to generate a repulsive gravitational force. Typically, we never notice such effects ― because the vacuum energy is swamped by all the normal mass within it (in von Guericke’s case, the atmospheric pressure surrounding his hemispheres was the dominant force at play). But at the largest scales, there is so much raw nothingness to the universe that these effects become manifest as an accelerated expansion. Recent research suggests that around 5 billion years ago, the matter in the universe diluted to the point that dark energy could come to the fore. Today, it represents roughly 70 per cent of the entire energy budget of the cosmos. Studies have shown that dark energy is actually in the act of ripping apart the large-scale structure of the universe, tearing apart superclusters of galaxies and disentangling the cosmic web before our very eyes.

But the acceleration is not all that swift. When we calculate how much vacuum energy is needed to create the dark energy effect, we only get a small figure.

However, our quantum understanding of vacuum energy says it should be infinite, or at least incredibly large. Definitely not small. This discrepancy between the theoretical energy of the vacuum and the observed value is one of the greatest mysteries in modern physics.

➥ This leads to the question of what else might be lurking in the vast nothingness of our atoms and our universe.

Perhaps von Guericke was right all along. “Nothing contains all things,” he wrote. “It is more precious than gold, without beginning and end, more joyous than the perception of bountiful light, nobler than the blood of kings, comparable to the heavens, higher than the stars, more powerful than a stroke of lightning, perfect and blessed in every way.” 

GGG

Dream ॐ

Monday, January 9, 2023

"...dreams are that of which the subconscious is made,

for any conditions ever becoming reality is first dreamed."

Edgar Cayce reading 136-7

In this 「可道」accessible way, I Am〈ॐ*〉terraformed

Biosphere and Atmosphere wise

To fit

יָהּ²

Yet

**אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה  אֲשֶׁ֣ר  אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה

formless and void

The Observer ✭𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖑𝖑✭

¤ Anagrams of Dream On:

➨ Dameron, Medrano (circus), anoderm, enamour'd, madrone, mandore, omander, roadmen

* ॐ, is a cursive ligature in Devanagari, combining अ (a) with उ (u) and the chandrabindu (ँ, ṃ).

² 50 יָהּ proper name, of deity, contracted from יהוה, first appears in early poems; Exodus 15:2 עָזִי וְזִמְרָת יָהּ My strength and song is Yah (cited Isaiah 12:2; Psalm 118:14), compare the poetic extract יָד עַל כֵּס יָהּ = hand to the throne of Yah Exodus 17:16 (E), the song of Hezekiah Isaiah 38:11 (repeated by dittography), (א)שׁ להבת יה (so read in preference to the ᵑ0 שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה) = flame of fire from Yah Songs 8:6; ביה יהוה Isaiah 26:4 (והיה sustained by Aq and the rhythmical movement, unless it is a mistake for שׁמו, compare Psalm 68:5), יה אלהים Psalm 68:19.

** ’eh-yeh ’ă-šer ’eh-yeh

’eh-yeh (hayah): to fall out, come to pass, become, be

Original Word: הָיָה

Part of Speech: Verb

Transliteration: hayah

Phonetic Spelling: (haw-yaw)

Definition: to fall out, come to pass, become, be

Genesis 1:2

HEB: וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ

KJV: And the earth was without form,

INT: the earth was formless and void

GGG

373 i.e. 676 or ☵ 坎 29

移* ㄧˊ

 易ㄧˋ

Sunday, January 8, 2023

"Each soul enters so that it may make its paths straight.

For they alone who walk the straight and narrow way may know themselves to be themselves, and yet one with the Creative Forces."

ECRL 2021-1

䷳ 艮 Gěn 52 Standstill/Idle@instinctive level

➨ hindered impulse

@προστάτης

“one who stands before, protector, guardian”

No Way to complete a true standstill

Even the mountains do not.

There is always a fire burning inside

And Ἥφαιστος • works his trade continuously

Hepatic sympathy for the Gaulish Gall

Biliary fire

➨ strong contraction of the muscles of the diaphragm, the stomach itself and the abdominal wall.

Eruption

➨ Instinct circulatory restoration ≍ 易 ≍ Solar System

& Plexus**

* Characters 易 (OC *leɡ, “to change”) and 賜 (OC *sleːɡs, “to give”) are derivates of 移.

** The solar plexus — or cœliac plexus — is a complex system of radiating nerves and ganglia. It is found in the pit of the stomach in front of the aorta.

GGG

非風非幡

Gateless Gate 29

Arcturian Corridor, Inter-Dimensional Portal

Gateless Gate (Mumonkan, Wumenguan) #29

Not the Wind*, Not the Flag

neither wind nor banner

Personnel

大鑒惠能 the Sixth Patriarch, Huineng (638-713), 6th generation, was one of three dharma heirs of the 5th Patriarch, 弘忍 Hóngrěn (602-675). All extant Zen lineages descend from Huineng, the last Zen master to be called "Patriarch." ➨ Huineng appears in one other of the koans: GG #23.

禪宗無門關

作者：無門慧開　宗紹　宋朝

1228年

二十九　非風非幡

　　六祖因風颺剎幡。有二僧對論。一云幡動。一云風動。往復曾未契理。祖雲。不是風動不是幡動。仁者心動。二僧悚然。

【無門曰】

　　不是風動。不是幡動。不是心動。甚處見祖師。若向者裏見得親切。方知二僧買鐵得金。祖師忍俊不禁一場漏逗。

【頌曰】

　　風幡心動　一狀領過　只知開口　不覺話墮

Case

The wind was flapping a temple flag, and two were having an argument about it.

One said, "The banner is moving."

The other said, "The wind is moving."

They argued back and forth but could not reach the truth.

The sixth patriarch [Huineng] said, "It is not the wind that moves. It is not the flag that moves. It is your mind that moves."

The two monks were stuck in awe.

無門 Comment

It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is not the mind that moves.

Where do you see the essence of the patriarch? If you have a close grasp of the matter, you will see how the two monks, intending to buy iron, got gold, and that what the patriarch impatiently said was a failure on the spot.

無門 Verse

風幡心動 The wind moves, the flag moves, the mind moves;

一狀領過 All have missed it.

只知開口 They only know how to open their mouths,

不覺話墮 And do not know that their words have failed.

Sekida's Comment

When a master delivered a sermon at a temple, a flag was hoisted at the gate to announce it to the public. At first, they may have enjoyed their argument, but presently it became heated. They became excited, each bent on defeating the other. In short, their minds lost their anchors and started drifting. But the monks were unaware of the disturbed condition of their minds. That was what Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch, pointed out.

Senzaki's Comment

The flag never moves by itself, but it looks as though it is moving, according to the movement of the wind. The children of our day will not have an argument as foolish as that of those two monks. One monk was a materialist, and he said that the flag was moving since he actually witnessed the fact. The other monk was a fatalist, believing in the invisible cause of things. The Sixth Patriarch struck the two birds of sophistry, and instead of killing them, turned them loose among the phoenixes of the holy land. Now, show me how your mind moves.

Shibayama's Comment

Since they were Buddhist monks in training, they must have known the basic Buddhist teachings, such as "Every phenomenon is only due to the mind," or "Nothing exists outside the mind." Brother Huineng's statement, "Your mind is moving," came directly out of the experiential fact which has nothing to do with intellectual interpretation. In other words, it was the natural working of Huineng's Zen. Setting aside the old story, how should we, here and now, grasp, "It is your mind that is moving" as a living fact in our lives?

From Dogen (1200-1253)

(Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma [Shobogenzo], Book 28, "Getting the Marrow by Doing Obeisance")

The nun Miaoxin was a disciple of Yangshan (807-883). When Yangshan was looking to choose a director of the monastery’s office for secular affairs, he asked around among the retired senior and junior officers, “Which person would be suitable to appoint?”

After an exchange of questions and answers, Yangshan, at last, said, “Although [Miao] Xin, the “kid” from the Huai [river region], is a woman, she has the determination of a person of great resolve. She is truly the one qualified to serve as the director of the office for secular affairs.”

All in the assembly agreed.

When, in the end, Miaoxin was appointed director of the office for secular affairs, the dragons and elephants among Yangshan’s disciples had no misgivings. Although this was not an important office, she was careful [in performing her duties] as befitting one who had been chosen [for this responsibility].

After [Miaoxin] had taken up her position and was residing in the office for secular affairs, seventeen monks from Shu banded together to go in search of a teacher to ask about the way. Thinking that they would climb Yangshan, at sunset they took lodgings in the office for secular affairs. During the evening lecture, while they were resting, someone brought up the story of Caoqi Gaozu’s words on the wind and the flag. But what each of the seventeen monks had to say was wide of the mark. At that time, Miaoxin, who was on the other side of the wall, heard the monks and said, “How lamentable, you seventeen blind donkeys! How many straw sandals have you wasted [in your futile search for the dharma]? The buddha-dharma has not yet appeared even in your dreams!”

At that time there was a postulant who, having heard the disapproving remarks about these monks by Miaoxin, reported them to the seventeen monks. The seventeen monks did not resent Miaoxin’s disapproval. To the contrary, they were ashamed that their words were inadequate and so, comporting themselves in the proper fashion, they offered incense, did obeisance, and respectfully inquired [about the dharma].

* 風 is ䷸ 巽 the fifth of the eight trigrams, the 57th of the 64 hexagrams and generally means obedient, and modest.

“巽”字是形聲兼會意字。從丌，初文上半部分寫作“卩卩”（或寫作“己己”）為聲符，像二人一前一後，朝同一方向跪坐著，會合出順從的意思。經長期演變成為“巽”字。在殷商甲骨文中，“巽”字會意初文“卩卩”的兩個人形，可以同向左，也可以同向右，後來幾乎都為向左。戰國時代“卩卩”中雙人跪跽的腿形向下伸展開，在兩人腿中部貫一橫線，或貫兩橫線，進一步演變為上下二體。漢代隸書下部變作“共”形，上部省去原來像人臂的垂畫，變“卩”為“己”形，後楷書又將“己”形封口作“巳”，接近原“卩”字結構。 “巽”在近代有個不常用的異體字“㢲”，上從二“弓”，是由戰國文字漸次訛變的楷化形式。

“巽”本義為順從，《易·蒙》：“童蒙之吉，順以巽也。”“順以巽”就是順從，《說文·丌部》：“巽，具也。“此處“具”為動詞，表示輔助主人陳設或準備食物，也體現順從之義。引申有謙遜、謙讓義，與“愻”（現代漢語用“遜”）字同用，且二字同音，又引申為卑順、怯懦義。 ““巽”也是八卦卦名之一，《易·說卦》：“巽為木，為風。 ”而“巽”作名詞時先天八卦中指西南 ，後天八卦中指東南方。

此外，古時“巽”也有“zhuàn”音，表示持、拿，現代漢語中該讀音與意義均已併入“撰”字  。

GGG ― Gateless Gate Gone―playing in the 'Twenties' courtyard without much Gravity  

56•28

56 nuclear* hexagram 28

旅 ䷷  ䷛ 大過

Halving Anew

Twice into Once

Currently Cosmically Trippin'

.No•Mad's Camp Fire

Why should the universe be constructed in such a way that atoms acquire the ability to be curious about themselves?

― Marcus Chown 

Direct your mind inward, and you will find a thousand regions of your mind yet undiscovered.

Travel them…

― Henry David Thoreau

To one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free-wandering life is an enchantment.

― Alexandra David-Neel

Hexagram 56, Travelling

Fire on the mountain

The trigrams of Hexagram 56 show an inner mountain and outer fire. The picture suggests the nomads’ campfire. It has limited fuel and limited duration, and the travellers will need to resolve any disputes before the ashes are cool, so they can move on unencumbered in the morning.

A more traditional view is to see the fire itself as the ‘traveller’ – moving rapidly across the slopes, burning through the vegetation. Either way, we can see the trigram qualities embodied in the noble one:

‘Above the mountain is fire: Travelling.

A noble one is clear and thoughtful in administering punishments, and doesn’t draw out legal proceedings.’

He has the fire’s clarity, combined with the mountain’s stability, and its quality of drawing lines and defining endings.

In a way, this revisits the two contrasting ideas of the traveller from the Oracle: someone who is constant to their own standards, but must respect the limits of their situation. (Constancy, good fortune – but creating only small success.) The limits on available time and resources mean we can’t draw out the enquiry indefinitely: they call for clarity.

A trigram pattern in the Sequence

The Sequence of hexagrams is full of fascinating patterns.

Here’s one of them: the arrangement of the 5 hexagram pairs that centres on 53 and 54, Gradual Development and the Marrying Maiden:

At the centre of this group of 10 are the ‘marriage’ hexagrams, joining the asymmetrical trigrams 震艮 and 巽兌. (They are about marriage in general, but also refer specifically to the marital alliance of Zhou and Shang, in 54.5.)

To either side of the centre, we can see the hexagrams made by doubling each of these trigrams: 51/52 for thunder and mountain, 57/58 for wind and lake.

And then there are two pairs that deal with crucial moments in the Zhou conquest story: the revolution itself and the sacred vessels in 49/50, and the crux point at the garrison of 豐, in Hexagram 55. Each of these pairs combines one of the asymmetrical trigrams with li, fire.

We can think of this group of hexagrams as being ‘about’ the central themes of 震艮 and 巽兌: upheaval and stability, integration and exchange. All of those come together in the images of marriage – and especially the vital Zhou/Shang marriage – at the centre.

In that case, 49/50 and 55/56 are where you add li to those themes. 離 is not just "fire": it’s also light, vision and insight. It is associated with the ionisation process, stars and astronomy, and how the Zhou people gained clarity about the right time to act from their observations of the heavens.

Adding li can mean adding the patterns of stars, the eyes to see them and insight to understand. We can see as much in the Image of Hexagram 49 –

‘In the centre of the lake, there is fire. Radical Change.

A noble one calculates the heavenly signs and clarifies the seasons.’

– and all the celestial observations in the lines of Hexagram 55.

In Abundance, starlight and vision join with action, emotion and upheaval (think of Hexagram 51) and Wu leads his armies to conquer Shang. But what about poor old King Hai, whose travels through Yi weren’t exactly noted for his clear vision or sense of timing?

Let us see this as adding fire to the separation – not-grasping, not-seeing – of Hexagram 52, doubled mountain:

‘Stilling your back,

Not grasping the self.

Moving into our rooms,

Not seeing our people.

Not a mistake.’

This seems reminiscent of Hai, who did not ‘see’ people, or get much of a grip on himself. Add fire, and his rooms (lodge and nest) are set ablaze!

If we tell the hexagram’s story with trigrams, then this fire looks less like clarity, and more like passion. Still, perhaps we could say that Hai’s obduracy, or the rock-solid laws of the Yi people, have eye-opening effects, and his fiery end casts light for the rest of us.

* The nuclear hexagram is the association of the two inner trigrams (lines 2,3,4 and 3,4,5).

It represents the root or the origin of the situation

GGG

本來面目

Original Face

True Colours

第二十三則  不思善惡

六祖因明上座趁至大庾嶺，祖見明至，即擲衣缽於石上云：「此衣表信，可力爭耶？任君將去！」明遂舉之，如山不動，踟躕悚慄，明曰：「我來求法，非為衣也，願行者開示！」祖云：「不思善，不思惡，正與麼時，那箇是明上座本來面目？」明當下大悟，遍體汗流，泣淚作禮，問曰：「上來密語密意外，還更有意旨否？」祖曰：「我今為汝說者，即非密也。汝若返照自己面目，密卻在汝邊。」明云：「某甲雖在黃梅隨眾，實未省自己面目，今蒙指授入處，如人飲水，冷暖自知，今行者即是某甲師也。」祖云：「汝若如是，則吾與汝同師黃梅，善自護持。」

無門曰：「六祖可謂是事出急家，老婆心切，譬如新荔支剝了殼，去了核，送在爾口裏，只要爾嚥一嚥。」

頌曰：「描不成兮畫不就，贊不及兮休生受；本來面目沒處藏，世界壞時渠不朽。」

“What is my Original Face?” is a famous 禅公案 Zen Koan, a phrase meant to stop the mind and cause a breakthrough of insight. The vision, or series of images, came in 5 parts. There were lines of vertical energy, appearing like neon, but each line was liquid light. Then ripples formed the faces of a baby, an adult and a skull, then back to the vertical lines. It felt like a message about our lives being a ripple of energy in the void. Here and gone. The constant was the vertical light. It is our choice whether we identify with the passing body or the deathless spirit passing through.

― Alex Grey

Original Face, 1995 by Alex Grey

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted or would please your teachers, father, or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

積ん読

積読、積ん読（つんどく）は、入手した書籍を読むことなく自宅で積んだままにしている状態を意味する言葉である。

積つん読どく • (tsundoku) (informal) the act of leaving a book unread after buying it,[3] typically piled up with other unread books.

The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of tsunde-oku (積んでおく, to pile things up ready for later and leave) and dokusho (読書, reading books). As currently written, the word combines the characters for "pile up" (積) and the character for "read" (読). 積讀（日語：積ん読／つんどく Tsundoku），

Quickly, without thinking good or evil, what is your original face before your parents were born?

— 無門關，公案第二十三則不思善惡

Gateless Gate, Case Twenty-three, 六祖 Huineng's Original Face (GG23) 《無門關》，全稱《禪宗無門關》，宋代無門慧開禪師撰

第二十三則不思善惡(ふしぜんあく)

六祖因(そちな)みに明上座(みやうじやうざ)、趁(お)うて大庾嶺(だいゆれい)に至(いた)る。祖(そ)、明(みやう)の至(いた)るを見(み)て、即(すなは)ち依鉢(えはつ)を石上(せきじやう)に擲(なげう)って云(いは)く、此(こ)の依(え)は信(しん)を表(あらは)す、力(ちから)をもて爭(あらそ)ふべけんや、君(きみ)が將(も)ち去(さ)るに任(まか)す。

二十三　不思善惡

　　六祖因明上座。趁至大庾嶺。祖見明至。即擲衣缽於石上雲。此衣表信。可力爭耶。任君將去。明遂舉之如山不動。踟躕悚慄。明曰。我來求法。非為衣也。願行者開示。祖雲。不思善不思惡。正與麼時那箇是明上座。本來面目。明當下大悟。遍體汗流。泣淚作禮問曰。上來密語密意外。還更有意旨否。祖曰。我今為汝說者。即非密也。汝若返照自己面目。密卻在汝邊。明雲。某甲雖在黃梅隨眾。實未省自己面目。今蒙指授入處。如人飲水冷暖自知。今行者即是某甲師也。祖雲。汝若如是。則吾與汝同師黃梅。善自護持。

【無門曰】

　　六祖可謂。是事出急家。老婆心切。譬如新荔支剝了殼。去了核送在爾口裏。只要爾嚥一嚥。

【頌曰】

　　描不成兮畫不就　贊不及兮休生受　本來面目沒處藏　世界壞時渠不朽

明恵 Myōe

The Gateless Gate by Mumon, translated by

Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps

23. Do Not Think Good, Do Not Think Not-Good

Koan number 23 out of 49 in this work (published 1228, translated 1934)

When he became emancipated the sixth patriarch received from the fifth patriarch the bowl and robe given from the Buddha to his successors, generation after generation.

A monk named E-myo out of envy pursued the patriarch to take this great treasure away from him. The sixth patriarch placed the bowl and robe on a stone in the road and told E-myo: "These objects just symbolize faith. There is no use fighting over them. If you desire to take them, take them now."

When E-myo went to move the bowl and robe they were as heavy as mountains. He could not budge them. Trembling for shame he said: "I came wanting the teaching, not the material treasures. Please teach me."

The sixth patriarch said: "When you do not think good and when you do not think not good, what is your true self?"

At these words, E-myo was illumined. Perspiration broke out all over his body. He cried and bowed, saying: "You have given me the secret words and meanings. Is there yet a deeper part of the teaching?"

The sixth patriarch replied: "What I have told you is no secret at all. When you realize your own true self the secret belongs to you."

E-myo said: "I was under the fifth patriarch for many years but could not realize my true self until now. Through your teaching, I find the source. A person drinks water and knows whether it is cold or warm. May I call you my teacher?"

The sixth patriarch replied: "We studied together under the fifth patriarch. Call him your teacher, but just treasure what you have attained."

Mumon’s comment: The sixth patriarch certainly was kind in such an emergency. It was as if he removed the skin and seeds from the fruit and then, opening the pupil's mouth, let him eat.

You cannot describe it, you cannot picture it,

You cannot admire it, you cannot sense it.

It is your true self, it has nowhere to hide.

When the world is destroyed, it will not be destroyed.

GGG

虎尾

TT

tiger's tail

"L•I" am desperately attempting to pull this life out of its tailspin, but I must return to my dirt-poor roots and the old friends I have long abandoned to find the answers.

Thursday, January 5, 2023

The soul must grow and be commanding, not demanding."

ECRL 931-1

黑兔

The Year of the Black Hare 2023

Jan 22 2023 – Feb 09 2024

Element of 2023 – 癸 Yin Water 卯 Leporid

Cycle 1924–2043: 40th combination of the Heavenly stem and Earthly branch

GGG

Monday, January 2, 2023

"Seek ― for only the seeker may find."  Edgar Cayce reading 499-2

G•L•S

大小畜

Global-Local Synchronicity

(dark matter fields)

26•9•49

大畜卦的結構和卦爻辭

周易　第二十六卦

大畜

䷙ 乾下艮上

易經：

大畜：利貞，不家食吉，利涉大川。

天在山中，大畜

䷙《易經》六十四卦之一, 第九卦

大畜[ㄉㄚˋ ㄔㄨˋ/ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄩˋ](畜通假蓄)卦是《易經》六十四卦之一，展示在“大畜”形勢下各種變化的可能性。大畜卦的代號是7:1，主卦是乾卦，卦像是天，陽數是7；客卦是艮卦，卦像是山，陽數是1。主卦和客卦的陽數比是7:1。主方應當把客方像動物畜養起來，馴服它，但不是消滅它。大畜卦在周易中是第26卦。左圖中，紅色表示當位的爻，天藍色表示不當位的爻 ，箭頭表示有應。

䷈《易經》六十四卦之一

小畜（ㄒㄩˋ）卦《易經》六十四卦之一，是7:3卦的卦名，7:3是小畜卦的代號。 7:3卦的主卦是7卦乾卦   ，卦像是天，天的特性是強健。客卦是3卦巽卦，卦像是風，風的特性是順從。這並不意味強健的主方可以讓客方順從主方，因為，風仍然有強大的能量，只是順從在前進方向上可以通過的路，並不順從在與前進方向不通，或者沒有開通的路。巽卦的中爻和上爻是陽爻，表示客方仍然有很強的力量，只有下爻是陰爻，消極被動，這並不意味著主方可以讓客方無條件地順從。所以，在當前雙方關係中，主方應當積蓄力量，伺機而動  。

“小畜”的意思是：少許積蓄。

周易　第四十九卦

䷰

革

䷰ 離下兌上

易經：

革：已日乃孚，元亨。利貞。悔亡。

彖曰：

革，水火相息，二女同居，其志不相得，曰革。已日乃孚；革而信也。文明以說，大亨以正，革而當，其悔乃亡。天地革而四時成，湯武革命，順乎天而應乎人，革之時義大矣哉！

象曰：

澤中有火，革；君子以治歷明時。

GGG