The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Too tired of being depressed and bored. Too lazy to make it to Sunday Yoga, after it was so generously changed from the annoying way too early Saturnday routine. It changes to afternoon Sunday and yet I still can’t manage to make it. I have been failing at most every mark and a glutton for punishment after years of dedicated practice and daily routine in all my studies. I must change my process codes. No, not something about a Process ideation from the 90’s.
“Design and programming are human activities, forget that and all is lost” Bjarne Stroustrup
I am in the process of stagnation. I threw the I-Ching yesterday and I received hexagram 41which is called “Decline”, oh so depressing and fitting of my current situation. I find depression and boredom unacceptable and I am doing everything in my power to battle this disease. The I-Ching states “the decrease is in accordance with forces of the cosmos and therefore perfectly natural and completely unavoidable. Accept the Decline and respond appropriately by simplifying your life” Great words of wisdom, because as soon as I accepted the circumstances of my current situation, I was somehow released from it’s hold upon my soul.
I-Ching 41 was a changing hexagram to number 18 “Repair” All things have built-in weak points, places that decay and eventually collapse. This is especially visible in human affairs” The I-Ching real or unreal, always gives me the best advise, exactly what I need to hear. Call me a Fool.
We as humans don’t always experience the good, we have to have the bad, we have to experience the dark night of the soul in order to stagnate and be reborn. It is a process that is unavoidable. The ebb and flow of nature.
An external approach to inner development can be compared to yoga practices. By adapting certain physical postures of balance and discipline, a resonant chord is struck in the spirit. Such an alignment between the internal and the external creates a more sensitive consciousness, a certain enlightened awareness, and an overall healthy atmosphere.
I am a hopeless romantic, call it a flaw or call it a strength. By love alone is life worthwhile. I only want to experience love free from pain, but yet you can’t have one without the other. It is the balance of opposites, the magic we so wish to control yet sometimes it is out of our hands. Acceptance and change is key in accordance with the Will. Learn to love or vow to hate.