Higher Values Create Their Own Expression
Spirit shares His understanding of the life situation expressed within HexagramI 22 – Adornment. Mountain is above and Fire is below. Yin over yang.
“Society is as a fire that brings people together; first, for survival and then for other mutually beneficial purposes beyond, but never excluding survival. Culture is as a volcanic mountain that can only develop, as an adornment, around a more-or-less stable society.
Culture cannot develop without generally accepted social rules of relating to different people in different ways. A teacher is not a cook or a bus driver.”
“That’s curious that you would choose a cook and a bus driver
to distinguish yourself as other than.”
“Why?”
“A cook prepares food for eating anda bus driver takes one to his or her
chosen destination.”
“Yes.”
“But, you do neither.”
“That is correct.”
“You seem to neither prepare food nor offer transportation. Perhaps
the spiritual teachings you share, after I struggle to digest them
and walk the path they point to, are as adornments of sacred wisdom.”
“Yes.”
“But, I might understand what you say in a way that differs from others.”
“Relate what I share with your lived experience.”
“But, different people have different lived experiences.”
“Yes and no.”
“How so?”
“Our individually lived experiences are as adornments on the form
within which our shared intelligence feels and thinks.”
“Then there is a finite varietyof emotions and thoughts that we each share?”
“Yes, but there is an infinite variety of quality of thought and emotion.”
“Where does spiritual development come into all of this?”
“All of this?”
“Our shared thoughts and emotions of infinite qualities.”
“Spirituality is in the personal development of higher qualities of thought and emotion.”
“What about action?”
“What about it?”
“How do we express higher qualities of thought and emotion?”
“How do we choose the form or focus of our expression of higher values?”
“Values?”
“Higher thoughts are values.”
“Then, how do we choose to express them.”
“They choose their own expression.”
“As do lower levels of thought and emotion?”
“Yes.”
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I Ching as a Way to Enlightenment 
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