Keeping Still
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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. • Hexagram 52 · Mountain over Mountain
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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Keeping Still
Hexagram 52 · Mountain over Mountain..
Hexagram 52 · Mountain over Mountain
Stillness (静, jing) is a Taoist discipline of quieting and observing change..
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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..
The darkest day, the returning light
Hexagram 52 · Mountain over Mountain..