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Part 1. Apocalypse time

From the works of Schopenhauer If we begin to inquisitively examine and observe any natural creature, for example, an animal in its being, life and activity, then, contrary to everything that zoology and zoothymia say about it, it will appear before us as an incomprehensible mystery. But

When they say that from the Absence of Limit there is a transition to the Great Limit, what is meant is that it is impossible to pass from the Limit to the Limit.
Buddhists define it this way: "True and immutable, Bhutathathata, the insight of the knowledge of permanence."
In The Book of Changes, in its section on the Tradition of Textual Relationships, it says: “Silent and immovable. You feel and then you comprehend.
The books about the cinnabar pill say: "After the body and heart become immobile, then one returns to the state of No Limit, which is the true mechanism and is defined as the mysterious essence of the Great Limit." This shows that in all three teachings, peace and stability are honored. This is exactly what Zhuangzi refers to as "management at rest." After all, when the human heart is calm and stable, but controlled in the middle, this is considered a movement, and at such a moment it is necessary to pay maximum attention to their appearance. Therefore, it is said that in a state of harmony, the arising emotions necessarily remain in the middle. Therefore, it is believed that if one reaches the Path in the Celestial Empire, then it really becomes possible to enter a state of middleness and harmony in one’s entire body, and, consequently, emptiness and divine peace reign in the body, and if movement is felt, then it becomes correct. In this state, it becomes possible to be in resonance with the infinity of changes in the Celestial Empire. Lao Jun says: "If a person is able to constantly maintain a state of purity and peace, Heaven and Earth are fully realized in him." Zi-Su said in this connection that if one strives for middleness and harmony, then the positions of Heaven and Earth are not violated, and myriads of things develop their natural qualities without contradicting each other.
Middleness and harmony are the mystery of the functioning of the universal penetration of the senses; it is a mechanism of resonant changes; it is the integral flesh of the "Cyclic Change" in which birth and nurturing flows and moves in an alternation of motion and rest. So shouldn't two such signs as "middleness" and "harmony" become everywhere the name of my refuge where I dwell?

SCHEME OF AVERAGE AND HARMONY

The Notes on Ritual (Lao Tzu) says: “When joy, anger, sadness and fun have not yet appeared, this state is called “middleness”. When they appear but are controlled in the middle, then the state is defined as "harmony". When emotions have not yet arisen, this is defined as "steady peace in the middle." We must try to keep it. That is why it is said: "Keep in the middle, remaining in the absence of the flesh." This is defined, therefore, as the great foundation of the Celestial Empire.
When emotions arise but are controlled in the middle, this is considered a movement, and at such a moment it is necessary to pay maximum attention to their appearance. Therefore, it is said that in a state of harmony, the arising emotions necessarily remain in the middle. Therefore, it is believed that if one reaches the Path in the Celestial Empire, then it really becomes possible to enter a state of middleness and harmony in one’s entire body, and, consequently, emptiness and divine peace reign in the body, and if movement is felt, then it becomes correct. In this state, it becomes possible to be in resonance with the infinity of changes in the Celestial Empire.
Lao Jun says: "If a person is able to constantly maintain a state of purity and peace, Heaven and Earth are fully realized in him." Zi-Su said in this connection that if one strives for middleness and harmony, then the positions of Heaven and Earth are not violated, and myriads of things develop their natural qualities without contradicting each other. Middleness and harmony are the mystery of the functioning of the universal penetration of the senses; it is a mechanism of resonant changes; it is the integral flesh of the "Cyclic Change" in which birth and nurturing flows and moves in an alternation of motion and rest. So shouldn't two such signs as "middleness" and "harmony" become everywhere the name of my refuge where I dwell?

PRAISE OF THE GREAT LIMIT SCHEME

The sign of the circle, located in the middle, is the transition from the No Limit to the Great Limit. The great limit is set in motion, generating Yang. Movement reaches its limit and peace arises. Peace gives birth to Yin. One Yin and one Yang are the two types of consciousness that are established in this way. The circle sign is Yang movement. The sign of the circle is the rest of Yin. Yin and Yang are intertwined, resulting in four images. The sign of the circle is when Yang, having moved, starts moving again. It's called Old Yang. When the movement reaches its limit and passes into rest, then this is called young Yin. When peace reaches its limit and again turns into movement, this is called young Yang. When the peace that has arisen again passes into peace, then this is called old Yin.
The movement and rest of the four images gives rise to eight gua signs.
Qian-gua is one. Xun-gua is two. They represent the movement and stillness of old Yang.
Li-gua is three. Zhen-gua is four. They represent the movement and stillness of young Yin.
Gen-gua is five. Kan-gua is six. They represent the movement and stillness of young Yang.
Dui-gua is seven. Kun-gua is eight. They represent the movement and stillness of old Yin.
Yin is countercurrent. Yang is the flow. The upward movement is replaced by a downward movement. The work of the mystical mechanism (transformations and transformations of Heaven and Earth) is continuous. This leads to the birth of 64 gua signs (hexagrams). Thus exhaustively expresses the Path of a myriad of things.
The upper sign of the circle marks the beginning of the transformations of the breath. The lower sign of the circle denotes the generation of transformations of the bodily form. If you are aware of the transformations of the breath, without being aware of the transformation of the bodily form, then you are not able to understand the extremely wide and great. If you are aware of the transformations of the bodily form, without being aware of the transformations of the breath, then you are not able to fully penetrate into the smallest and subtlest. To explain this, here are 25 praises below.

TWENTY-FIVE PRAISE

In essence, the Path is extremely empty. Being utterly empty, it has no flesh. It is exhausted by the inexhaustible and begins in the beginningless.
The void reaches its limit and turns into a spirit. Changes in the spirit give rise to breath. The breath is concentrated and the bodily form appears. Thus, the unit is divided, forming a deuce.
If there is a deuce, then a feeling appears. If there is a feeling, then there is a couple. Yin and Yang are intertwined; Qian-gua and Kun-gua define positions. A continuous process of changing movement and rest begins. The four images are connected to each other. Tension and Obedience trigger vibrational resonances, and thus there is a constant connection between the eight signs-gua. As a result, there is a constancy of the circular motion of the five elements. Four stages of the time cycle are established, an annual cycle is formed. The harmonization of the pulsation is translated into purity. Life begins, matter is born. In the space of Heaven there is a rotation, a whirling of a myriad of images. In the space of the Earth, this leads to the return and nourishment of many feelings of moods. The bodily forms support each other. Things breed each other. Such is the change of changes through the generation of the generative. And it cannot be exhausted and completed.

In the Middle Kingdom, myriads of entities are born in presence, and presence is born in absence. Presence and absence are intertwined and connected. The hidden and the obvious support each other.
If we proceed from its beginning, then all the myriads of existence have breath as their original root. If you bring it to the end, then all myriads of entities change only their form.
From this it is known that for a myriad of entities the single basis is form and breath. For form and breath, the single basis is the spirit. The basis of the spirit is the ultimate emptiness. The basis of the Way is the ultimate absence. Change is within.

The position of Heaven is the top. The position of the Earth is down. The person's position is the middle. He himself harmonizes and transforms. And the breath is in the middle of it.
Heaven and Earth are the largest of all beings-things. And man is the most spiritual-divine of all beings. The space and time of the universe is in his hands. Myriad transformations are born in his body. Changes-transformations take place within it.

The human limit is in the middle between Heaven and Earth, as a result of which fate is established. Man takes into himself the emptiness of the divine mystery, and thus nature is completed. When nature and destiny are established, the spirit is in the midst of them.

Fate is expressed in breath. Nature is expressed in spirit. The spirit is immersed in the heart. Breath is concentrated in the body. The path is in the middle.

The transformation of form is expressed in the presence of birth. The presence of birth is expressed in the presence of death. They go out into birth, they go into death. Such is the permanence of things.
The transformation of breath leads to the absence of birth. The absence of birth determines the absence of death. Not to be born and not to die - such is the constancy of the spirit.
Form transformation is the flesh of the Earth. The transformation of breath is the images of Heaven. The form is transformed in the presence of feelings. Transformations of breath are natural-arbitrary.

Upon reaching the highest enlightenment, the integrity of breath and spirit is established. Through thousands of harmonizations, myriad connections, truth is naturally-arbitrarily formed.
The truth that is in the middle of this truth corresponds to the mystery that one arrives at by trying to penetrate the mystery. When matter is born in the absence of matter, it is defined as the "germ of immortality."
If you strive to create this Path only through achieving peace and emptiness in yourself, then you can count on the success of your striving for the embryo of immortality.

Emptiness is expressed in the absence of obstacles. Peace is expressed in the absence of aspirations. Reaching the limit of emptiness and truth in peace, you see transformations and realize the return.

Through movement one acquires stillness. By means of fullness they embrace emptiness. When both principles-laws are obedient to each other, then the spirit and the Way act together.

The path is the master of the spirit. Spirit is the master of breath. The breath is the master of the bodily form. The bodily form is the master of life.
The absence of birth is expressed in the departure of the bodily form. The withdrawal of the bodily form is expressed in the withdrawal of the breath. The departure of the breath is expressed in the departure of the spirit. The departure of the spirit is expressed in the absence of care. Its name is care in the absence of care.

The golden liquid melts in the body. Jade amulet protects the spirit. This is the secret of the union of body and spirit, which leads to union with the truth of the Way.
The jewel of fate is concentrating. The pearl of nature becomes clear. The primordial spirit reaches the divine mystery. The germ of immortality is formed. The Path of natural arbitrariness of emptiness and absence comes to an end.
Great spirit. It is the basis of all change and transformation.

Notes
Published according to the collection "ANTHOLOGY OF DAOIST PHILOSOPHY". Translation from Chinese by Bronislav Vinogrodsky.
Li Dao-Chun, a representative of the "Way of Integral Truth" or Quanzhendao, lived during the Yuan Dynasty.
Golden Pill - This refers to both a kind of inner work practices, expressed in breathing, concentration of attention, various visualizations, and the result of this work, indicating the achievement of a state of physical immortality.
Great Limit (tai chi) - Basic concept traditional Chinese ideology, reflecting the principles of the interaction of heavenly and earthly energy flows in the space of human perception. According to its dictionary meaning, it means not only reaching some most significant border, but also going beyond this border, so it can also be translated as a combination of “Over-limit” or even “Going beyond”.
Cinnabar Pill - Essentially the same as Golden Pill, Inner Pill, Cinnabar, etc. The words "cinnabar" and "pill" in this context are reflected by the same hieroglyph, the original meaning of which is "cinnabar".
"Body and heart become immobile." - All texts are not talking about material and physical objects, but about their projection in the field of human perception or even about those phenomena that arise in the process of perception of these objects. Therefore, it is often difficult to achieve complete consistency in translations within the framework of a non-Chinese language.
Principle - The same sign can also be translated by such words as “pattern, intelligence, device, truth, logic”, etc., and is one of the important categories of traditional Chinese ideology, indicating some basic rhythm of the universe structure, which can manifest itself both in the pattern of clouds in the sky, and in the texture of human skin, and in any other orderly distribution of the original breath-chi in the manifested cosmos of myriad entities.
"One Yin and one Yang - these are two types of consciousness" - Two types of reaction of the focus of an individual's attention to the energy flows of the Earth and Sky, respectively.
Eight gua signs - The main eight signs (trigrams) in the "Book of Changes" system, used as a conceptual apparatus in all Chinese practices and combining all the main conceptual schemes of traditional Chinese ideology.
“Countercurrent and flow” - Respectively, obedience and tension. These concepts play an important role in traditional Chinese organisms in describing the orientation of the flow of breath-chi with respect to any active intervention in this flow. In the practices of Taoist internal alchemy, this intervention is carried out by directing the focus of attention to certain areas of the screen of internal perception.
"Mystical mechanism" - In the Taoist tradition, the entire universe can be described as one mechanism that functions flawlessly without any interference from the individual, and, conversely, such interference only creates problems in the first place for the individual himself. Although these problems are due to the fact of birth and, consequently, the general asymmetry caused by this birth in the “man-world” system.
Wide and great - Characteristics of Heaven and Earth, respectively.
"Qian-gua and Kun-gua determine positions." - A hidden quote from the Book of Changes. Indicates the functions of Heaven and Earth.
Tension and obedience - Characteristics of Heaven and Earth in one of the aspects of their implementation in the space of perception of the individual.
"Changes are inside" - This is a system of Changes, which not only operates within the space of perception, but also constitutes its essence and basis.
Truth - Indicates a state in which the asymmetry inherent in life is corrected spontaneously, when an individual is able to fit holistically into the mystical mechanism of Heaven-Earth, performing the function of a connecting link between the ideal and material worlds.
“A jade amulet protects the spirit” - This is how the achievement of the state indicated in note 14 is symbolically expressed.

Lee Dao-chun

Collection of essays on the middle and harmony*

THE ESSENCE OF THE MYSTERIOUS GATE

SCHEME OF THE GREAT LIMIT TAI CHI

Infinity Yin and Yang in the book drawing - circle) Beginninglessness of movement and rest

In Buddhism, they talk about full insight. Taoists talk about the Golden Pill 1 . Followers of Confucius talk about the Great Limit 2 . When they say that from the Absence of Limit there is a transition to the Great Limit, what is meant is that it is impossible to pass from the Limit to the Limit. Buddhists define it this way: "True and immutable, Bhutathathata, the insight of the knowledge of permanence." In The Book of Changes, in its section on the Tradition of Textual Relationships, it says: “Silent and immovable. You feel and then you comprehend. In books about cinnabar pill 3 says: "After the body and heart become motionless 4 , then you return to the state of No Limit, which is the true mechanism and is defined as the mysterious essence of the Great Limit. This shows that in all three teachings, peace and stability are honored. This is exactly what Chuang Tzu speaks of as "management at rest." After all, when the human heart is calm and stable, when it does not empathize with things, when it is transparent in the penetration of the heavenly principle, this is the mystery of the Great Limit. As soon as there is empathy for things, this leads to a deviation, a loss of balance, then the Great Limit changes. During a state of steady rest one tries to preserve the heavenly principle 5 , the constancy of enlightenment, the emptiness of divine spirituality. In a state of eclipse, anxiety, all sorts of situations begin to rule you, and you react to all things that fall into the sphere of your attention. When the mastery of stability at rest reaches the highest degree, then this state is maintained without effort and effort, quite naturally, as a result of which the true state of No limit is restored. The sacrament of the Great Limit corresponds to clarity. The rational arrangement of Heaven and Earth, a myriad of things, is fully manifested in me.

Median All,

truth that arises

four ( here is the picture in the book- is the middle direction

square divided

vertical line

into two halves)

SCHEME OF AVERAGE AND HARMONY

The Notes on Ritual (Lao Tzu) says: “When joy, anger, sadness and fun have not yet appeared, this state is called “middleness”. When they appear but are controlled in the middle, then the state is defined as "harmony". When emotions have not yet arisen, this is defined as "steady peace in the middle." We must try to keep it. That is why it is said: "Keep in the middle, remaining in the absence of the flesh." This is defined, therefore, as the great foundation of the Celestial Empire. When emotions arise but are controlled in the middle, this is considered a movement, and at such a moment it is necessary to pay maximum attention to their appearance. Therefore, it is said that in a state of harmony, the arising emotions necessarily remain in the middle. Therefore, it is believed that if one reaches the Path in the Celestial Empire, then it really becomes possible to enter a state of middleness and harmony in one’s entire body, and, consequently, emptiness and divine peace reign in the body, and if movement is felt, then it becomes correct. In this state, it becomes possible to be in resonance with the infinity of changes in the Celestial Empire. Lao Jun says: "If a person is able to constantly maintain a state of purity and peace, Heaven and Earth are fully realized in him." Zi-Su said in this connection that if one strives for middleness and harmony, then the positions of Heaven and Earth are not violated, and myriads of things develop their natural qualities without contradicting each other. Middleness and harmony are the mystery of the functioning of the universal penetration of the senses; it is a mechanism of resonant changes; it is the integral flesh of the "Cyclic Change" in which birth and nurturing flows and moves in an alternation of motion and rest. So shouldn't two such signs as "middleness" and "harmony" become everywhere the name of my refuge where I dwell?

PRAISE OF THE GREAT LIMIT SCHEME

The sign of the circle, located in the middle, is the transition from the No Limit to the Great Limit. The great limit is set in motion, generating Yang. Movement reaches its limit and peace arises. Peace gives birth to Yin. One Yin and one Yang are two types of consciousness 6 , which are set in this way. The circle sign is Yang movement. The sign of the circle is the rest of Yin. Yin and Yang are intertwined, resulting in four images. The sign of the circle is when Yang, having moved, starts moving again. It's called Old Yang. When the movement reaches its limit and passes into rest, then this is called young Yin. When peace reaches its limit and again turns into movement, this is called young Yang. When the peace that has arisen again passes into peace, then this is called old Yin. The movement and stillness of the four images gives rise to eight signs-gua 7 . Qian-gua is one. Xun-gua is two. They represent the movement and stillness of old Yang. Li-gua is three. Zhen-gua is four. They represent the movement and stillness of young Yin. Gen-gua is five. Kan-gua is six. They represent the movement and stillness of young Yang. Dui-gua is seven. Kun-gua is eight. They represent the movement and stillness of old Yin. Yin is countercurrent. Yang is the flow 8 . The upward movement is replaced by a downward movement. Continuous operation of the mystical mechanism (transformations and transformations of Heaven and Earth) 9 . This leads to the birth of 64 gua signs (hexagrams). Thus exhaustively expresses the Path of a myriad of things. The upper sign of the circle marks the beginning of the transformations of the breath. The lower sign of the circle denotes the generation of transformations of the bodily form. If you are aware of the transformations of the breath, without being aware of the transformation of the bodily form, then you are not able to understand the extremely wide and great 10 . If you are aware of the transformations of the bodily form, without being aware of the transformations of the breath, then you are not able to fully penetrate into the smallest and subtlest. To explain this, here are 25 praises below.

TWENTY-FIVE PRAISE

In essence, the Path is extremely empty. Being utterly empty, it has no flesh. It is exhausted by the inexhaustible and begins in the beginningless.

The void reaches its limit and turns into a spirit. Changes in the spirit give rise to breath. The breath is concentrated and the bodily form appears. Thus, the unit is divided, forming a deuce.

If there is a deuce, then a feeling appears. If there is a feeling, then there is a couple. Yin and Yang are intertwined; Qian-gua and Kun-gua determine positions 11 . A continuous process of changing movement and rest begins. The four images are connected to each other. Tension and obedience 12 trigger vibrational resonances, and thus there is a constant connection between the eight signs-gua. As a result, there is a constancy of the circular motion of the five elements. Four stages of the time cycle are established, an annual cycle is formed. The harmonization of the pulsation is translated into purity. Life begins, matter is born. In the space of Heaven there is a rotation, a whirling of a myriad of images. In the space of the Earth, this leads to the return and nourishment of many feelings-moods. The bodily forms support each other. Things breed each other. Such is the change of changes through the generation of the generative. And it cannot be exhausted and completed.

In the Middle Kingdom, myriads of entities are born in presence, and presence is born in absence. Presence and absence are intertwined and connected. The hidden and the obvious support each other.

If we proceed from its beginning, then all the myriads of existence have breath as their original root. If you bring it to the end, then all myriads of entities change only their form.

From this it is known that for a myriad of entities the single basis is form and breath. For form and breath, the single basis is the spirit. The basis of the spirit is the ultimate emptiness. The basis of the Way is the ultimate absence. Change is within 13 .

The position of Heaven is the top. The position of the Earth is down. The person's position is the middle. He harmonizes and transforms himself. And the breath is in the middle of it.

Heaven and Earth are the largest of all

entities-things. And man is the most spiritual-divine of all beings. The space and time of the universe is in his hands. Myriad transformations are born in his body. Changes-transformations take place within it.

The human limit is in the middle between Heaven and Earth, as a result of which fate is established. Man takes into himself the emptiness of the divine mystery, and thus nature is completed. When nature and destiny are established, the spirit is in the midst of them.

Fate is expressed in breath. Nature is expressed in spirit. The spirit is immersed in the heart. Breath is concentrated in the body. The path is in the middle.

The transformation of form is expressed in the presence of birth. The presence of birth is expressed in the presence of death. They go out into birth, they go into death. Such is the permanence of things.

The transformation of breath leads to the absence of birth. The absence of birth determines the absence of death. Not to be born and not to die - such is the constancy of the spirit.

Form transformation is the flesh of the Earth. The transformation of breath is the images of Heaven. The form is transformed in the presence of feelings. Transformations of breath are natural-arbitrary.

Upon reaching the highest enlightenment, the integrity of breath and spirit is established. Through thousands of harmonizations, myriad connections, the truth is naturally-arbitrarily formed. 14 .

The truth that is in the middle of this truth corresponds to the mystery that one arrives at by trying to penetrate the mystery. When matter is born in the absence of matter, it is defined as the "germ of immortality."

If you strive to create this Path only through achieving peace and emptiness in yourself, then you can count on the success of your striving for the embryo of immortality.

Emptiness is expressed in the absence of obstacles. Peace is expressed in the absence of aspirations. Reaching the limit of emptiness and truth in peace, you see transformations and realize the return.

Through movement one acquires stillness. By means of fullness they embrace emptiness. When both principles-laws are obedient to each other, then the spirit and the Way act together.

The path is the master of the spirit. Spirit is the master of breath. The breath is the master of the bodily form. The bodily form is the master of life.

The absence of birth is expressed in the departure of the bodily form. The withdrawal of the bodily form is expressed in the withdrawal of the breath. The departure of the breath is expressed in the departure of the spirit. The departure of the spirit is expressed in the absence of care. Its name is care in the absence of care.

The golden liquid melts in the body. Jade amulet protects the spirit 15 . This is the secret of the union of body and spirit, which leads to union with the truth of the Way.

The jewel of fate is concentrating. The pearl of nature becomes clear. The primordial spirit reaches the divine mystery. The germ of immortality is formed. The Path of natural arbitrariness of emptiness and absence comes to an end. Great spirit. It is the basis of all change and transformation.

MYSTERIOUS MEANING BEYOND THE FEATURES OF CHANGE

1. CHANGES AND IMAGES 16

In the constancy of Changes, Changes can also be the denial of Changes. 17 . In a large image, the image can also be the negation of the image. Permanent Change - does not change. A great image is in the absence of an image. Permanent Change exists before the features are drawn. Changes of changes 18 - appear after the features are drawn. Constant Change does not change, and this is the flesh of the Great Limit. The ability of Change to change is the originality 19 creation and transformation 20 . A large image is the beginning of movement and rest. The possibility of an image is a product of the name of a form. Through an endless succession of kalpas in the silence of rest - such are the constant Changes. Not stopping for a moment, they act from the depths of antiquity - such are the changeable Changes. In the ultimate emptiness, in the absence of flesh - such is the great image. Arising and appearing in the course of situations - such is the image of possibility. As for permanence, no one can exhaust its beginning, no one can measure its end. It passes through the darkness of centuries and myriads of generations and exists independently of anything. As for the “big”, outside it covers Qian-gua and Kun-gua, and inside it contains the time and space of the Universe. An infinite number of worlds, equal in number to the number of grains of sand on the river bank, is completely exhausted by its transparency. Constant changes do not change, and therefore they are able to combine all the infinity of changes in the Middle Kingdom. A large image in the absence of images is therefore capable of expressing the entire infinite number of situations in the Celestial Empire. The image is the beginning of the Path.

2. PERMANENCE AND CHANGE

Permanent Change does not change. Changeable Change is not permanent. Their constancy does not change, and therefore they are able to resonate with changes. Their changes are not permanent, and therefore they are able to embody permanence. Immutability from beginning to end - such is the constancy of Change. Non-constancy of movement and rest - such are the changes of Change. When you stand independently and do not change, then you gain constancy. When you are not in danger in moving through cycles, then you comprehend their changes. If you do not know permanence, then you will not be able to comprehend change. If he has not comprehended the changes, then he is not able to know permanence. Permanence and change are the source of Change.

3. BODY AND FUNCTION

Constancy is the body-flesh of Change. Change is a function-application of Change. That which does not change from ancient times to the present day is the flesh of Change. What mutates and changes over time is the function of Change. The absence of thoughts, the absence of implementation is the body of Change. The presence of feelings, the presence of resonances - this is a function of Change. If you know your function, then you are able to comprehend the limit of your body. If he is whole in his body, then he is able to benefit from his function. A man of wisdom, contemplating above, peering below, striving for the distant, accepting the close, takes possession of his body. The ruler-sage (jun-tzu), developing the Potency, perfecting the karmic matter, solving situations, creating tools, follows his function. And as for the comprehension of rationality, the exhaustion of nature, the joy of Heaven, the realization of fate, improvement, help, establishing order and peace, establishing relationships, developing a system of laws and measures, then all this, of course, does not go beyond Changes. If you achieve the integrity of the body of your Changes, then you are able to know constancy. If you use the function of your Changes, then you are able to fully comprehend the changes.

4. MOVEMENT AND REST

The clash in the vibration of elasticity and suppleness is the movement and stillness of Change. The rise and fall of Yin and Yang is the movement and stillness of the breath. The connection and imposition of separate and paired is the movement and rest of the gua sign. Inspiratory and expiratory phases 21 breath and bodily form is the movement and rest of a thing. Activity and rest of the day and night is the movement and rest of the body. As regards advancement and retreat in the cycles of the body, arising and annihilation in the rhythms of the heart, patency and obstruction in the world, success and failure in business, this is the interaction of one phase of movement and one phase of rest, which depend on each other. What you contemplate in motion and stillness are the changes in myriad situations in which the moods of myriad entities manifest themselves. If during the resting phase you save, save, then the ability to discern will be in motion. If you exercise control during the rest phase, then during the movement phase you will be able to judge. If there is stability during the resting phase, won't there be luck during the moving phase? Stillness is the basis for movement. Movement is the main spring in the rest mechanism. If the constancy of movement and rest is not lost, then the Path preserves the clarity of radiance.

5. COMPRESSION AND STRETCH

The departure of heat and the arrival of cold is a contraction and expansion in the annual cycle. The departure of the sun and the arrival of the moon are contraction and expansion of the breath. The departure of antiquity and the advent of modernity is a contraction and expansion of the social cycle. As for the mutual generation in the contact of presence and absence, the mutual becoming in the contact of difficult and easy, the mutual formation in the contact of long and short, the mutual inclination in the contact of high and low 22 , is all reasonable compression and stretch logic. And if you are able to realize the Path of sensual contact of contraction and expansion, then you will be able to exhaust all the inexhaustible benefits of the Celestial Empire.

6. PHASES OF INSP AND EXHALE

The inspiratory phase is the beginning of the exhalation phase. The expiratory phase is the end of the inspiratory phase. The inspiratory phase is the concentration of the breath. The exhalation phase is the dissipation of the bodily form. Birth, upbringing, nurturing, feeding are defined as the inhalation phase. The arrival at the roots and the return to destiny is defined as the exhalation phase. From inception to penetration 23 is the inhalation phase in Change. From Benefit to Sustainability 24 is the phase of exhalation in Change. From spring to summer - this is the inhalation phase in the annual cycle. From autumn to winter - this is the exhalation phase in the annual cycle. From childhood to maturity - this is the phase of inhalation in the body. From old age to death - this is the phase of exhalation in the body. From absence to presence is the phase of inhaling the thing. From presence to absence is the exhalation phase of the thing. The inspiratory phase is the birth companion. The exhalation phase is a companion of death 25 . As soon as the two breaths are separated, from that moment it is impossible that there is no exhalation phase when there is an inhalation phase, and it is impossible that there is no inhalation phase when there is an exhalation phase. If you comprehend and know this radiant regularity, then you will come to the ultimate enlightenment.

7. SPIRIT AND MECHANISM

That which is preserved as a middle ground is the spirit. And what arises and averages out is a mechanism. The spirit is silent and motionless. And what feels, reacts and penetrates is a mechanism. That which is incomprehensible either in concealment or in manifestness is the spirit. What resonates with application in the absence of parties is the mechanism. That which lurks in the unity of the organism is the spirit. That which sets in motion myriad entities is the mechanism. That which foreshadows good and bad in advance is the spirit. That which changes in motion without remaining in place is the mechanism. That which is fully expressed in the four Potencies 26 and relentlessly pushes himself 27 - it is preserved as a spirit. And what passes through three hypostases 28 , and there is no depletion in its resonant application - this is the cyclical movement of its mechanism.

8. KNOWLEDGE AND MOVEMENT

Knowledge is a deep awareness of reasonable patterns. Movement is the movement of force along the Path. If you are deeply aware of its rational structure, then you do not need external manifestations for knowledge. If you are in the movement of forces along your Path, then you do not fulfill, but accomplish. You don’t go out the door, but you realize the Celestial Empire, you don’t look out the windows, but you see the heavenly Path. This is deep awareness. If you tirelessly strain yourself without leaving or coming, then this is the movement of power. If you know about disorder when it has not yet appeared, if you know about danger when there is no danger yet, if you know about death when there is no death yet, if you know about trouble when there is no trouble yet, then all this is deep awareness. When you save in the body and do not carry it out, when you accumulate movements in your heart and do not carry it out with your heart, when you move with assignments in the world and do not identify with the world, when, while moving, you move in situations and do not identify with the obstacles of situations, then all this is a movement of force. . If you are deeply aware of the rationality of its structure, then you are thereby able to make order out of turmoil, turn danger into security, survive in death, make happiness out of trouble. If you stay in the movement of strength along the Path, then you will be able to lead your body to longevity, you will penetrate the mystery with your heart, you will lead society to a great peace, and you will achieve great success in business. If there is no great knowledge and no great movement, how can you achieve such results?

9. CLARITY IN TIME CYCLES

There is nothing better for comprehending change than knowing the cycles of time. And for the knowledge of time cycles, there is nothing better than a clear understanding of the reasonableness of the device. 29 . For a clear understanding of the rationality of the device, there is nothing better than achieving emptiness and peace. There is nothing better to achieve emptiness than clarity. To achieve peace, there is nothing better than cleanliness. When purity and clarity are present in you, then the rationality of the Heavenly arrangement becomes completely clear. Through the contemplation of heavenly changes and transformations, there is an opportunity to see the Changes. Contemplating the situations of time cycles in society, it is possible to learn images in practice. Contemplating the changes in the moods and feelings of entities-things, one can distinguish forms. If you cling to an external form, you cannot remain in the absence of accidents. 30 . If you depend on voluptuousness, then you cannot abide in the absence of discrimination. The sky, before entering the Yin state of rain, must first receive evaporation. Before a collapse of a mountain top occurs in the mountains, the top must first collapse. Before a person can be useful or harmful, his appearance must first change. Let's give examples. Nest dwellers know the wind. Cave dwellers know rain. Sleeping insects react to the change of seasons. The fall of the leaves is associated with autumn. Or, for example, merchants plant pheasant feathers on the top of the carriage or on the mast of the ship and thereby determine whether it will be clear or rainy. When the weather promises to be clear, the feathers stick out vertically. If rain is expected, the feathers hang down. So sensitive is an insensitive thing! What is there to say about a person? And if a person does not know the changes in time cycles, then the shining rationality of the structure of the world is still not clear to him.

10. CORRECTING YOURSELF

In the promotion of Potency and the improvement of karmic work 31 nothing compares to correcting yourself. Once you yourself become right, then there is nothing more that would not be right. All names and forms, unless they are correct, cannot be determined. In all situations and incidents, if there is no rightness, there can be no success. In the usual constancy of everyday functionality of planning, action, reflection, conclusions, there is nothing that would not begin in yourself. That is, absolutely all situations, deeds, things, everything that happens, comes only from oneself. For this reason, the essence of advancement and improvement is self-correction, whereby a foundation is created. If, while correcting yourself, you come into contact with another person, then the other person also comes to correctness. If, by correcting yourself, you settle things, situations also come to correctness. If, correcting yourself, you resonate with things-essences, then things also come to correctness. And when a single correctness is created in the Celestial Empire, then you will be able to comprehend the myriad changes in the Celestial Empire. So the ability to correct oneself is of great use in advancement and improvement. This is the ladder that will lead a person to wisdom.

11. GUN FU SKILLS

Mastery of kung fu on the path of Change is acquired through cleansing the heart, cutting the fetters, simplifying thoughts, freeing oneself from moods, reducing self-interest, peering into the whiteness of an unpainted canvas through containing the original integrity of a piece of unprocessed wood. If you cleanse the heart and cut the fetters, then you can exhaust the rationality of the device. If you stop thinking and forget about moods, then you can exhaust nature. If selfishness and desires disappear in you, then you can create the Way. If you get the purity of the unity of unpainted canvas and unworked wood, then you will be able to know Heaven.