The Best Kept Secret of Life

[wong chee kwan]

Dear DavidFirth,

I-Ching is the bible for those who pursue a natural way of life, by trusting and flowing with the forces of nature; and is nothing less than any holy scriptures in terms of holiness, timelessness, influence, and following.

I am sorry for not able to “excite” you with my take on I-Ching. Please forgive me for, and try to look beyond, my poor command of English; for I-Ching does provide an interesting perspective and practicable skills on how to become the master of one’s own universe.

After all, peeping into others’ belief systems always enhances your own; as human inevitably misinterprets when looking at things too exclusively, especially printed words, as they are opened to all kinds of interpretation.

For example, the wisdom of adhering to only God’s words should not be interpreted too literally to the extent of being exclusive.

In fact, I-Ching has a similar advice – always seek wisdom, from outside the body, with the following qualities: basic (hence unchangeable), balance (hence fair), and farsighted (hence progressive) – a task made possible by learning how to sustain a 3-D existence that frees one from human interference.

 

[DavidFirth]

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.

You got Googleglot? I'm not your secretary, look it up for yourself.

 

[wong chee kwan]

The Inspired Change C-3 A (日: The Sun’s DNA)

c) 从囗一。象形 (cóng wéi yī, xiàng xíng): It follows the characteristics of an enclosure and a limit. Each symbol is shaped to tell its own story.
The enclosure (囗) mirrors the Sun’s perfect sphere – a never ending loop – symbolizing a host of divine qualities, traceable in various degrees in all cloned heavens.

The roundness suggests perfection, radiated as holiness by both the “nobody” who lives a simple yet happy life, and the “somebody” who answers their calls to fulfil their missions in life.

The endlessness stands for timelessness, an incorruptible value found in religionists who live by God’s words; or in works created out of thin air by thinkers, writers, inventors, and the likes.

The continuity shows the persistency of the Sun in completing its mission, manifested as perseverance in survivals who never give up on life, or visionaries who always strive to scale new heights.

The looping reflects the cause and effect working principle of the Sun -- what goes around comes around – practiced by simplists who treat the roots rather symptoms to resolve recurring problems; or karma believers who cushion their lives with good deeds, believing that one good turn always leads to another, and that violence begets violence.

The circle symbolizes a full natural life cycle, spun continuously to move one along the evolution scale through thick and thin; a way of life pursued by naturalists who wish to be one with the universe, or fate believers who always take everything in their strides.

The above listed divine qualities, though not exhaustive, are enough to show the size of your birth rights. But, the actual amount inherited is dependent upon the purity of your feed; expressed as a divinity value, the equivalence of a pH value, ranging from -10 to +10:

Divinity Value = Pulsating Nourishment – Toxic Emotion (Both feeds are valued between 0 to 10)

A maximum score of ten creates a saint with a halo; a negative ten yields a monster capable of destroying the world; and a zero results in a swamp-like character that encompasses diversity.

To be a monster or saint, nobody or somebody, failure or success, the decision is entirely yours.

 

[wong chee kwan]

The Inspired Change C-3 B-1 (日: Limits)

A limit (一) is as far as one can go.

While the Sun is almost limitless in every quarters – size, power, resources, wisdom, and so on -- human is defined by limits, the lowest is earth, and the highest, heaven.

The lowest is a base below which is a bottomless pit that does not support life; cascading the depressed soul from one bottom to another with endless miseries.

So, it is a “bottomless pit” that inflicts miseries nonstop, and not because the lack of will to fight the odds, as commonly diagnosed. Logically then, constructing a base -- earthly enough to hold the fall and stage a rebound – should end the sufferings once and for all; sparing one the agony of a head-on, no-win fight with the depression, as normally prescribed.

On the other hand, the highest is one’s growth limit beyond which is a mysterious headwind; retaliating ferociously against any encroachment; and engaging the obstinate in a prolonged tug of war, to either exhaust the intruder into submission, or stretch their lives until it snaps, free falls, and lands with a big bam at ground zero, for a restart.

There is a distinct difference between a “challenge” and “headwind”. A challenge energizes you to rise above the occasion and scale new height. A headwind tires you out with increasing resistances for every step forward until you are totally exhausted. So, take on the challenges but respect the headwinds, if you want to live happily ever after.

Yet, the worst kind is a man-made limit, an emotion thatch, a hardened layer of negatives that starts to coagulate the moment you were born, amassing junks like:

• Extreme emotions like uncontrollable anger, excessive worrying, or crippling fear.
• Traumatic experiences like serious accidents, abuses (physical, emotional, or sexual), or catastrophes (war or natural disasters).
• Unresolved issues like conflicts, unfulfilled ambitions, or regrets.
• Distortions like half-truths, prejudice, or extreme thoughts.
• Trivialities like insignificant details, petty issues, or inconsequential incidents.

The lack of dethatching over a long period of time is what causes the hardening. The common excuses given for the inaction range from ignorance, oversight, deficiencies, can’t be bothered attitude, to obstinacy.

The price for cooking up excuses is a self-made prison that grows more impermeable with each delay, and eventually becomes “unbreakable” with only one possible escape route – drawing strength from “The Force” outside.

Here is the inside story.

 

[wong chee kwan]

The Inspired Change C-3 B-2a (日: Enemy of the Ego Part 1)

The first sign of an emotion thatch in play is the upsurge of “inertia” – a strong resistance to change – every time you wish to uplift your life; even simple wishes – such as keeping fit, changing to a healthier diet, or opening to a new idea – seemed like high hopes.

Initially, it is a ding-dong battle -- win whenever you receive a positive vibe from the outside (the natural guà, the upper trigram of a hexagram, is coming to your aid), and lose whenever your mood takes over (the man-made guà, the lower trigram of a hexagram, is boxing you in).

At this juncture, there is no joy in winning, nor sadness when losing. What it does bring is regrets -- for wasting time and energy fighting the many, meaningless battles; and losing opportunity due to slow responses.

But, it is a different story if you are losing all the time. It means that a “depression” -- a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity – has set in.

The slump tells of the further hardening of the thatch, solid enough to cut off the outside supply that nourishes the inside. Over time, the isolation will degenerate into desolation – a marshy existence, devoid of vegetation (no growth), carpeted by mosses (trivialities) and walled by volatile emotion that fuels erratic behaviours.

If isolation is indeed the cause of depression, then calming the erratic behaviours by drugging the depressed could be suicidal. Because it addresses only the symptom (calming the behaviour by numbing the senses), but not the cause (calming the inside by neutralizing the extremes), with a dire consequence – numbing of the sixth sense meant for communicating with the natural world outside.

If the marshy condition is left to deteriorate further, the next worst thing is “compulsion” – the irrepressible urge to do something that you know you shouldn’t – driving ugly, vicious behaviours that plague the internet with cyber bullying, highways with road rage, or society at large with harassment.

In a way, a bully is a victim themselves; falling prey to a fast growing mass of trapped negatives that pressure cooks the inside into a live volcano; out bursting violently to release the escalating pressure; and spurring poisonous thoughts and vulgarities onto whoever and whatever blocking the way, to sooth the inner turmoil with pleasure derived from dispensing the pains.

Some might not give a damn being labelled a bully; but they would be hard-pressed for ignoring the deadly consequences that descend together with the next round of degeneration.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

This isn't a secret. You can find this nonsense, along with a myriad more collections of nonsense, all over the internet.

 

[wong chee kwan]

The Inspired Change C-3 B-2b (日: Enemy of the Ego Part 2)

Next is a vicious cycle that snowballs the trapped emotion into a highly toxic, dense mass of negatives, which sucks indiscrimately like a black hole to satisfy its insatiable desires to possess; fuels terror acts to exert its dominance; and infests weaklings with poisonous thoughts to spread its influence.

Then, an ugly head rises from the pool of ****, seizing control of the inner domain, and dethroning the true ego – the will to control thoughts and behaviours – to become the new master of your universe; born to terrorize lives, yours and others’, until they perish in anguish.

The birth of the “altered ego” pits human against heaven, which, unfortunately for individuals but fortunately for mankind, is equally determined to have its own way; and more so since it is the one with the muscles.

So, it is a lopsided fight from the very beginning, with human always the loser. The confidence in the might of heaven is so strong that some even proclaim victory in the face of injustice, shouting out mantras like:

邪不能胜正 (xié bùnéng shēngzhèng): The evil will not triumph over the virtuous.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏 (tiānwǎng huīhuī shū ér bùlòu): The mills of God grind slowly but surely.

The constant cry for justice reflects badly on heaven on one hand (that it is taking its own sweet time to settle scores), but shows its compassion on the other. Because it uses a karmic system that weights positives against negatives, a very time consuming but merciful process, as it offers chances for redemption to everyone, even the condemned.

If you wish instant justice, take on the devil within instead. Because heaven is merciless when directly challenged; levelling the emotion pits with powerful pulses to restore naturalness, a free flowing environment that links the inside with outside.

That explains why I-Ching prescribes the self-administration of “the Almighty” as an instant cure for all human ills.

For those besieged by the warmongering altered ego, who perceives the Sun as an enemy bent on destroying their worlds, here is the advice: “Take a deep breath, pull back, and look again.”

Hopefully, the deep breadth could gain enough traction for a small pullback, the gap of which enables the entry of a mediator – the Sun’s pulsating nourishment – capable of tempering an evil intent to hurt into just an urge to curse, hence reducing the chance of a fatal accident.

For those who are still holding the fort, and see the Sun as a white knight that restores natural order, here is what I-Ching has to say: “Master the art of saying No (勿, wù).”

勿 is a construction blueprint for an incubator that draws on the Sun (日) to change your life to the way it should be -- a simple, easy, and ever-evolving way of life (易).