Alchemic verses: the 17th hexagram Following

[deci belle]

When the combination of potential and sensitivity becomes subtly apparent to adepts of spiritual alchemy, this is called a time.

The ability to recognize and actualize adaptivity (following) by virtue of potential is the inherent greatness of human nature.

Seeing potential is actualized by not exercising mind conditionally relative to psychological awareness unawares over a very long time.

The 17th hexagram represents firmness entering from under flexibility. Firmness entering into flexibility is called following.

Combining potential and sensitivity, firmness enters flexibly. If it is correct, then there is no fault.

When one has not exercised mind for a long time conditionally relative to psychological conditioning in the midst of ordinary affairs, this is said to be correct, as there is no fault of having caused nonoriginated potential to fall into the Creative by influencing situations relative to one's selfish psychological momentum.

In real time, unbeknownst to anyone, wholly united by resting in the virtue of the receptive, one is naturally the same as all prior illuminates who spontaneously follow potential without pursuing things relative to the scintillating trappings of the karmically bound psychological apparatus of the being that is going to die.

After a long time of subtly following real potential, one's authentic enlightening practice will inevitably conceal the embodiment of reality, wisdom, and liberation in the esoteric storage of one's subtly adaptive refinement by virtue of an open sincerity expressed in everyday ordinary situations. By the grace of such receptive refinement, and entering the great sameness of nonpsychologically motivated open sincerity, who would need to know?

When one reads the 17th hexagram Following without changing lines, it has a hidden hexagram inside it, Gradual Progress, the 53rd hexagram.

[Salvijus]

Word salad

[Salvijus]

1 hour ago, deci belle said:

Firmness entering into flexibility is called following.

Admit it. There is no universe where this makes sense ?

I think the whole thing would make more sense in the original language that it was written.

Edited October 4, 2023 by Salvijus

[deci belle]

hahahhahaaaa~ even right now, in the midst of ordinary affairs, it's not words.

[Salvijus]

That's a beautiful laugh.

Edited October 5, 2023 by Salvijus

[Salvijus]

5 hours ago, deci belle said:

even right now, in the midst of ordinary affairs, it's not words.

"The greatest of messages cannot be spoken of but it can be wrapped in words for someone to unwrap it"

[deci belle]

Even for those who do, there is merit, but such merit is not relative to the person.

Such merit is already expressive of enlightening potential, continuously expounded by animate and inanimate, without beginning.

Being that it's already our nature, in seeing just this, realization is experience of nonoriginated selfless sincere open awareness in real time.

At such times, no one knows the arising of the celestial potential but for those who eschew speculative relationships in the midst of situational evolution as a matter of course. In seeing potential, the gift is a given, whereby nothing is done in terms of the person.

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Open sincerity sees such as it is without involving the sense-gates. Experiencing potential is another word for real knowledge, which is immediate.

Since it does not involve the person, its psychological processes, emotional consciousness and ego reifying pattern-awareness ceases without deliberate effort or struggle. I'm not saying it's a wonderful thing; it's just what it is, relative to the situation. It's reality, not the person.

Mutual response not relative to the person in the context of real situational adaption is enlightening activity by virtue of potential itself.

Such response is transcendent in terms of freeing that bit of potential from within the matrix of the Creative (by virtue of karma). Subsequent natural  transformation of unrefined potential is said to have been "absorbed" by adepts who can see situationally inherent potential.  Those who do are said to be able to work with essence directly, without intermediary. "Absorption" of potential is the basic elemental aspect of so-called alchemic practice. It is simply a matter of seeing. Seeing is itself absorption of potential in terms of the real knowledge that I previously mentioned in the above quote. What is seen is not within the confines of a discursive criteria. Entry into the naturally inconceivable qualities of reality itself is just the way it is, and no one knows why.

Formal meditation regimens aren't about being "good." "Spirituality" is really about penetration into the realm of the nonpsychologically nonoriginated unattributable quality of awake, miraculously so, by virtue of the source of our aware essential nature, which is not created.

 All entry-level reformative techniques are based on the nature of mind itself, to guide people beyond the realm of fixated self-absorption by the various devices set up by the ancient authentic teaching traditions in order to help students subtly gain familiarity with absorption of selfless (open) awareness. It's the same mind. There are no two minds. Mind is one.

There is no karmic doing relative to the person carrying out authentic subtle spiritual (nonpsychological) practice. Our nature is an inconceivability. The open secret left behind by all prior illuminates is an attempt to keep the knowledge alive. Those who have the audacity to truly take this up are rare.