"In
the well-valley out shoots a fish,
Causing the jar to be broken with water leaking."
I Ching Hexagram 48, Line 2
Your
Dig Into the Valley Gate
excerpted
rom Chapter 4:
Your Welled Sickness
Sickness
is an evolutionary process resulting from the poor condition of love:
that of incomplete ejaculation or execution from man and poor arousal
or awakening from woman. It is where the unconditional, eternal love is
pushed into sensational and conditional waves in the presence of the fear
of losing control and the rage at the inability to control. Beginning
from conception and throughout your lifespan, sickness activates the stages
of growth, and each situation is a matter of life and death. As sickness
occurs, mystic biological growth constantly expands into a more complicated
social adjustment. Seasonal change diverges into customized habitation,
and linear confirmation of the rational mind directs the biological system
of growth and change. Growth is both natural and social, while change
is both evolutionary and mandatory. Between growth and change, sickness
travels back and forth creating upheaval and problems without end. In
most situations, sickness can be precisely defined as social expectation
and cultural confirmation. As a result, sickness is not only an imbalance
in the body/mind but largely the destruction of a harmonic environment
into a never-ending competitive society.
Thus,
sickness is regarded as private and public, personal and social, and individual
and collective. It is one of the most private things we contend with in
life, but we cannot identify its invisible source with our eyes of flesh
or viable senses. Sickness travels from cell to cell, leaping from organ
to organ, spreading from person to person and marching from culture to
culture. This epidemic phenomenon is defined socially as a plague. Whether
it is an act of God or evil, a virus attack or temporary imbalance, a
plague harms the normal existence of an entire community, ranging from
intra-psychological phobia to pernicious social disorder.
Strangely
enough, both sickness and healing start from nowhere but manifest all
over. Even before you can protect yourself, sickness is already in. After
you have made friends with it, it is yours to identify with or reject.
Bypassing all your prevention techniques, sickness is smarter than you
think, and its intelligence is equal to your entire life-combined intelligibilities.
Even before you can pay for it, sickness is dearer than parental love
or a secured dove. After you have paid for it, sickness denies you like
a useless friend or meaningless meal, or it hopes to continue its friendship
with you, finding a new angle to delight you with. To have sickness is
both a blessing and a curse, and to achieve optimum health requires a
dreamful mind-set and sensitive, innermost (innocent) wish. Who can be
healthy when each has his or her unsolvable problems and indefinable mysteries?
Who can heal sickness when the living must die, the heart must be dried,
and the head must be fried? Whose healing technique is more effective
than intimacy, more efficient than tolerance, more powerful than bliss,
more useful than understanding, or more practical than tender caring?
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