The Best Kept Secret of Life

[Miss Hepburn]

''Meanwhile, mysticism always outweighs logic...''

Ah, music to my ears. I have always said, Spirit trumps the physical.

''...realizing one’s fullest potential in partnership with heaven...''ahhhh

[7luminaries]

Very nice, very nice indeed Thanks for sharing and looking forward to more!

Peace & blessings,
7L

[wong chee kwan]

The Bāguà Theory 5 (The 8 x 8 Algorithms)

“四象演八卦、八八六十四卦
The four phenomena evolve into eight trigrams, and eight by eight becomes sixty-four hexagrams.”

Previously, the bāguà poem shows how the yīn-yáng force works the human universe with a four-beat gait, which contracts to naturalize and crystallize, and expands to breakthrough and peak.

四象演八卦 (sì xiàng yǎn bāguà) says that the four-beat rhythm continues, and completes a full cycle of eight (2 x 4 = 8) manifestations, called bāguà.

The four-beat gait that falls, bottoms, rises, and peaks is called a down cycle. The wind down causes a fall that crystallizes justified knowledge into core ideas; while the wind up stages a rebound that builds up potential energy for a major breakthrough.

A falling-rebounding cycle forces rest to stockpile potential energy.

The next four-beat gait that rises, peaks, falls, and bottoms is called an up cycle. The unleashing of the potential energy powers a growth that explodes in the sky like firework; while the consolidation caps the rise by converting the kinetic energy back to potential.

An expanding-consolidating cycle stimulates growth to disburse kinetic energy.

Dào uses the eight-beat gait ingeniously to mold the human universe into its ideal shape. Some of its ways are listed below; but the list is by no means exhaustive as there are still others, yet to be discovered or tested.

• A bāguà generator that churns out eight types of natural processes to run a human universe; coded as heaven, earth, water, fire, thunder, mountain, wind, and swamp.
• A motivator that energizes with a purpose and direction.
• A normalizer that forcibly justifies a middle path forward, free of extremes and excesses, with the up and down popping in life.
• A pulse maker that propels one steadily forward amidst strong resistances.
• A life-sustaining device that regulates the heartbeats for a peaceful existence.
• A signalling system that warns of crisis or opportunity brewing in the background.
• An inspirational source that supplies knowledge that are original and justified.
• A decoding system that translates the unknowns into knowns.

If Dào is left to work undisturbed, it can remake earth in the image of heaven, theoretically speaking.

A peaceful life for those with a low-amplitude vibration, which pops up and down merrily along a middle path till the end of time. They are the happy “nobodies”.

A colorful life for those with an average amplitude, which rises from a “nobody” to “somebody” by going through the trials and tribulations of life. Which means most of us shall be a “somebody” -- not just any “somebody”, but a happy “somebody” – someday, somehow.

A larger-than-life life for those with a high amplitude, which has to survive a free fall to ground zero, for a big rebound to a great height, and a game-changing achievement that can withstand the test of time, i.e. forever. Fortunately, most of us are spared the excruciating falls; but at the huge expense of an everlasting glory, and an intensely happy life.

On the other hand, if an altered ego is calling the shots, life becomes erratic and unpredictable; as the actions are now driven by the desires to possess rather than motivations to progress.

An altered ego is an ego under siege by a dense mass of negatives, accumulated emotions that are never refreshed; no thanks to a severed earth-heaven link that disables the emotion cycle. The cutoff is the work of an emotional thatch, a hardened layer of extreme (unjustified) emotions; comprising unresolved issues, traumatic experiences, extreme thoughts, half-truths, and trivialities.

So, a stage is set for a classic nature-human fight; with Dào heading north determinedly regardless of how one feels; and the altered ego insisting on going south despite the dire consequences.

In mild cases, the clash often surfaces as a constant tussle between evil and good thoughts. In serious cases, the fight is a life-threatening struggle between imaginary and reality.

Thanks to Mr. Fúxī who simulated the nature-human conflict with a hexagram; by placing nature as the top trigram, and human as the lower trigram.

八八六十四卦 (bā bā liù shí sì guà) says that the clash between the natural and man-made bāguà results in sixty-four (8 x 8 = 64) hexagrams.

In this context, a hexagrams is the path resulted from the clash between the man-made guà at the bottom, and the natural guà at the top.

Subsequently, the sixty-four resultant paths were compiled into a classic – The Book of Changes --which offers advices as sure bets to win the fight, every time and in any circumstances; i.e. provided human participates willingly by not participating, a real catch-22 situation.

[wong chee kwan]

The Natural Bāguà 1 (The Inconvenient Truths)

A trigram has three lines. Really, what are they?

At a glance, the trigram looks like a three-beat pulse in motion. When put under the microscope, there are actually three parties (earth, human, heaven) working hand in hand to find the best way forward, democratically.

Each of them will either push hard with a go-vote (shown as a yáng or unbroken line), or pull back with a stop-vote (shown as a yīn or broken line), for their agendas to be heard.

The three-way pushing and pulling result in a three-beat pulse, a prevailing force of nature domesticated to serve human’s best interest in a given situation.

The voice from the baseline advocates balance. That is the conscience -- a soul vibrating freely with a natural frequency closed to the earthly rhythm – calling.

A go earth-line represents an energized soul; reversing its passive role to be an active partner, blessed with the ability to act spontaneously but wisely. A stop earth-line shows a passive soul; playing its intrinsic role as a database of integrity that stores only justified knowledge.

The voice from the middle is the loudest, always trying to have the final say. That is the will – an unadulterated ego exercising its natural tendency to take charge – at work.

A go human-line shows a controlling ego imposing its will; and is a force to be reckoned with, as it holds the last say. A stop human-line reveals an indifferent ego; electing to be an observer rather than a participant.

The voice from the top is the most authoritative, but chooses to work in the background; quietly but persistently urging progress. That is Dào – the external life-force that drives one relentlessly towards the destiny – working its magic.

Which means the top line is a fate-driver, manifested as a mysterious force of nature. A go heaven-line stimulates growth by opening all doors; while a stop heaven-line forces rest by closing all doors.

In a nutshell, a natural guà is a path to heaven generated from a balance platform; surrounded by free flowing and justified emotions, and powered by an invisible force of nature.

Unfortunately, the wisdom spoken is often an inconvenient truth, which requires a lot of effort to put into practice; such as cultivating a good conscience, justifying the past, and striking a good working relationship with Dào.

As such, the truthful advice is often ignored, or simply treated as a voice in the wilderness.

[wanchain]

Originally Posted by wong chee kwan

Dào uses the eight-beat gait ingeniously to mold the human universe into its ideal shape. Some of its ways are listed below; but the list is by no means exhaustive as there are still others, yet to be discovered or tested.

• A bāguà generator that churns out eight types of natural processes to run a human universe; coded as heaven, earth, water, fire, thunder, mountain, wind, and swamp.
• A motivator that energizes with a purpose and direction.
• A normalizer that forcibly justifies a middle path forward, free of extremes and excesses, with the up and down popping in life.
• A pulse maker that propels one steadily forward amidst strong resistances.
• A life-sustaining device that regulates the heartbeats for a peaceful existence.
• A signalling system that warns of crisis or opportunity brewing in the background.
• An inspirational source that supplies knowledge that are original and justified.
• A decoding system that translates the unknowns into knowns.

If Dào is left to work undisturbed, it can remake earth in the image of heaven, theoretically speaking.



On the other hand, if an altered ego is calling the shots, life becomes erratic and unpredictable; as the actions are now driven by the desires to possess rather than motivations to progress.

An altered ego is an ego under siege by a dense mass of negatives, accumulated emotions that are never refreshed; no thanks to a severed earth-heaven link that disables the emotion cycle. The cutoff is the work of an emotional thatch, a hardened layer of extreme (unjustified) emotions; comprising unresolved issues, traumatic experiences, extreme thoughts, half-truths, and trivialities.

So, a stage is set for a classic nature-human fight; with Dào heading north determinedly regardless of how one feels; and the altered ego insisting on going south despite the dire consequences.

In mild cases, the clash often surfaces as a constant tussle between evil and good thoughts. In serious cases, the fight is a life-threatening struggle between imaginary and reality.

Hi,

I used to learn I Ching, more than a decade ago. But I stopped, because I couldn't understand it. If you don't mind, I would like to ask some questions.

You're saying 道 does all these, and perhaps more? Can I understand this to mean, 道 encompasses the natural forces of the universe?

• A bāguà generator that churns out eight types of natural processes to run a human universe; coded as heaven, earth, water, fire, thunder, mountain, wind, and swamp.
• A motivator that energizes with a purpose and direction.
• A normalizer that forcibly justifies a middle path forward, free of extremes and excesses, with the up and down popping in life.
• A pulse maker that propels one steadily forward amidst strong resistances.
• A life-sustaining device that regulates the heartbeats for a peaceful existence.
• A signalling system that warns of crisis or opportunity brewing in the background.
• An inspirational source that supplies knowledge that are original and justified.
• A decoding system that translates the unknowns into knowns.

Under what circumstances would an altered ego be born?

Wanchain

[wong chee kwan]

Thanks for asking.

Answers are on the way. Please give some time for the story to unfold.

[wong chee kwan]

The Natural Bāguà 2 (The Good Bāguà Effects)

Mathematically, there are eight (2 x 2 x 2 = 8) possible natural paths that can sustain the forward momentum towards one’s destiny.

1. Heaven (天, ☰: go-go-go): All systems go.

Heaven is a skyrocketing process that drives human (人) to breakthrough resistances (一); till they hit their ceilings (top 一).

The explosive growth is run by an energized ego-soul pair; inspired by an opportune environment.

2. Earth (地, ☷: stop-stop-stop): All systems stop.

Earth is a grounding process (土也) that drives one towards the lowest limit (bottom 一); for justification (east-west 一) and north-alignment (north-south丨).

The natural incubator is switched on by separating the ego and soul in an inopportune environment.

3. Water (水, ☵: stop-go-stop): A restrained move.

Water manages emotions by separating (丨) the emotions according to their natures, and justifying them by pairing the positives (丶) and negatives (丿).

The emotion management system is activated to contain an overpowering ego; by drawing wisdom from the wise soul in a quiet setting.

4. Fire (火, ☲: go-stop-go): A spontaneous response.

Fire sets a human (人) on fire with dots (丶) and strokes (丿).

The soul-charging system is activated by a direct earth-heaven link that by passes the ego.

5. Thunder (雷, ☳: go-stop-stop): A spontaneous release.

Thunder discharges extreme emotions to refresh (雨) the natural home base (田).

The emotion cycle is activated by replacing the ego with heaven as the energy source, which refreshes and enriches the soul.

6. Mountain (山, ☶: stop-stop-go): Blessing in disguises.

Mountain is a Nature-driven correction system, which forcibly north-aligning (丨) the pit (凵).

An ego-soul separation process forced upon by heaven, as blessing in disguises, to restore the 3-D formation.

7. Wind (風, ☴: stop-go-go): A Nature-aided uplift.

Wind blows to uplift the ordinary (凡) low life-forms (虫).

A wind of change -- blown from a high pressure heaven to a low pressure earth – that elevates the ego to a higher plane of existence.

8. Swamp (澤, ☱: go-go-stop): An ego-soul ecosystem.

Swamp preserves prosperity (幸) with an emotion (氵) net (罒).

A natural conservation system -- which preserves the natural growth netted – that encourages the ego and soul to coexist.

On a lighter note, the natural bāguà is a secret recipe for making an eternal triangle works. On a more serious note, the natural bāguà is a joint ego-soul effort to harness Dào for a glorious life.

Generally, the three-way relationships produce eight types of natural processes, which will keep the human world liveable at worst, and heavenly if managed properly.

[wong chee kwan]

Hi Wanchain,

Dào is said to be an external life-force released by a spiritual resonance, when heaven (a symbol for one's stored potential) is stimulated by one’s natural frequency at the moment of birth.

Resonance is an abnormally large vibration of a system, which releases a huge amount of stored vibrational energy, when stimulated by a smaller system of similar natural frequency.

The natural bāguà generated by the partnerships between the Dào and the ego-soul pair is actually a set of practicable and perfectible skills that can unlock the hidden human potentials.

The list of Dào's manifestations is complied in this context.

Hope the above perspective is of use to you; at least to the first part of your question.

Thank you.

[wanchain]

Originally Posted by wong chee kwan

Hi Wanchain,

Dào is said to be an external life-force released by a spiritual resonance, when heaven (a symbol for one's stored potential) is stimulated by one’s natural frequency at the moment of birth.

Resonance is an abnormally large vibration of a system, which releases a huge amount of stored vibrational energy, when stimulated by a smaller system of similar natural frequency.

The natural bāguà generated by the partnerships between the Dào and the ego-soul pair is actually a set of practicable and perfectible skills that can unlock the hidden human potentials.

The list of Dào's manifestations is complied in this context.

Hope the above perspective is of use to you; at least to the first part of your question.

Thank you.

Hi,

Thanks for your explanation!

The natural bagua can be used to unlock human potentials. I guess that also means any tool that can simulate the workings and framework of the "system" can also unlock human potentials, but currently we don't have many of such tools right?

What actually unlocks the human potentials is the human will, or the ego-soul pair, right? The bagua is only a tool to that end?

And the "system" that you are referring to is this universe that we're in, and it may be different in other universes right?

Wanchain

[wong chee kwan]

Hi Wanchain,

A human universe means your very own world (not mine nor others); built by the tripartite partnership between Dào and your ego-soul pair.

The natural bāguà is a set of practicable techniques -- no different from practicing meditation, yoga, taichi, swimming, or any form of exercises -- to achieve a desirable result.

In this case, it is about using those skills that you are not even aware of, to unlock your growth potentials; so that you can live your life exactly the way it should be.