keeping still i ching explained

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Key Takeaway: Keeping Still.

Keeping Still. Hexagram 52 · Mountain over Mountain. Stillness (静, jing) is a Taoist discipline of quieting and observing change. In the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 16, stillness is paired with emptiness and with watching the ten thousand things return to their root; in the Zhuangzi, zuowang describes a related loosening of bodily and sensory fixation.

Within the Chinese philosophical tradition, as recorded in the classical texts that have shaped East Asian thought for millennia, Keeping Still.

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