I'd like to start our dialogue here with Hexagram 36 from the Yijing:
The Hexagram:
Ming Yi / Darkening of the Light
Upper Trigram - K'UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH
Lower Trigram - LI THE CLINGING, FIRE
"Here the sun has sunk under the earth and is therefore darkened. The name of the hexagram means literally "wounding of the bright"; hence the individual lines contain frequent references to wounding. Here a man of dark nature is in a position of authority and brings harm to the wise and able man."
King Wen of Zhou's Judgement:
In adversity
It furthers one to be persevering.
"One must not unresistingly let himself be swept along by unfavorable circumstances, nor permit his steadfastness to be shaken. He can avoid this by maintaining his inner light, while remaining outwardly yielding and tractable. With this attitude he can overcome even the greatest adversities.
In some situations indeed a man must hide his light, in order to make his will prevail inspite of difficulties in his immediate environment. Perseverance must dwell in inmost consciousness and should not be discernible from without. Only thus is a man able to maintain his will in the face of difficulties."
According to Maslow's Hierachy of needs, we don't really need much to live a happy, carefree, peaceful, efficient and abundant life. All our base needs are met in the lower two levels of the pyramid; once we achieve these base neccesities we begin to pursue higher echelons of self-actualization.
Everyone know's this in concept or theory form. As i observe the world at large it seems that we have forgotten how to maintain our equilibrium. We now live in a society where we live to serve our houses, our cars, our apartments, our bodies, rather than being the other way around.
Think about it for a moment....who or what is it that we live for? Because i certaintly don't believe we are living for ourselves....most likely living for that house, that car, that apartment, that new phone, or even for our bodies...but never ourselves.
This world has weaponized kindness into cynnism, turning this beautiful aspect of life into a weakness. In a world filled with backstabbing vultures those with kindness are considered prey. And so to defend ourselves we adopt the darkness thinking that it's cloak may protect us in a world that invites deception, only to lament the beast we end up becoming....shrivelled...shrunk...afraid...and always lacking.
To live such a way is to live in fear. To live in fear means to reject kindness. Rejecting kindness means we wound the light of this world and ourselves. It took me a long time and many long sojourns in life to first see this disgusting societal-habit being fed to us on all levels; it took me even longer to begin to cut that shit out from my life. Only then did i realize the performer's mask was not my face. That face and it's troubles do not belong to me....
I will leave you with this: what we need is very little....yet from that small resource we can achieve greatness. Kindness is free and so is Hatred. We should choose the path that leaves the world a better place; in this way we maintain the light of this world and the balance of Yin and Yang. Upon this articial dark spell cast upon us we can push back by daily acts of kindness; these acts of kindness should be encouraged and praised when seen acted, for we have forgotten what it means to be kind, that kindness mean's something in this world and that it's not shameful to walk against the grain to lend a helping hand. the hyena's may laugh and point their bone banshee finger; their mockery is only a reflection of their own inability to express love and kindness....but deep down they know they want that shit...and they know they are capable of that shit....
I ain't about to let the darkness consume my light. My light may not be bright, but i know if i let the fire of kindness loose, i will be operating in the hemispheres of love. I'd rather be there than in a shit hole to be honest with ya.
So today i will look upon the face of evil and say FUCK YOU EVIL YOU AINT GOT SHIIIIIIIIIT ON ME [spits at the evil] TAKE THAT COCKSUCKA 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
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Wes...
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I don't really use centralized platforms to communicate much.
Only thing i do use is matrix.org.
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I was struck by an image of someone, I guess me, enclosed in a bubble of darkness pushing desperately against the bubble seeking always to contract and suffocate me in a cocoon. In the image I was surrounded by lifeless cocoons, and in the middle and near distance were other bubbles, myriad cocoons, and the surroundings were not darkness but light. Only the bubbles were darkness and once we are unable to push the contracting bubbles back, our lifeless husk is left behind inside the cocoon, while we escape the bubble into the infinite light.
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