317 — This week on Cargo

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To submit your own question, send an email to oracle@cargo.site [Nine of Cups]( [46. Pushing Upward]( [4. Youthful Folly]( These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.) - When abundance, or a nutritive advantage, arises, don’t waste it in worry, make good use of it. - The pupil always seeks the teacher, never the other way around. - Make this the mantra of your method: without haste and without rest. * * * From “M.S”: The I Ching often talks about the necessity of religious devotion as part of a healthy life. The text was written over 2000 years ago — (the following obviously cannot be overstated) much in the way of industry and science has developed since then (also the rise of dogmatic, political monotheisms). We find no truck with contemporary religion, and, though we find much beauty in the sciences (as well as obvious, unarguable utility) they simply can’t address the primary mystery of the situation. (As well feeding the momentum of every scientific endeavor is a usually unarticulated belief that it is worthwhile to do so.) If we had to deliver a compact definition of our spiritual (🙄) tendency (maybe mystical is better) it would be, engaging the inscrutable mystery that flows through and surrounds all things with awe and a transcendental curiosity (whether quark, quasar or quail). What is a way to formalize this into a practice whilst resisting dogmatism and silly idolatries (as far away from crosses and crystals as possible). * * * If you are truly curious about a “practice” you will have to go to places, or meet people, that have “answers” about such things — they could be far or they could be within. Similarly, if you want to see great distances (both inner and outer), you must extract yourself from the weeds. If you don’t do these things your question about a practice isn’t serious. A practice must be undertaken without haste and without rest. The results will not be cozy. You must be humble and conscientious. A practice is not for everyone. A practice is not always about answers but often proper distractions are far more important. The universe lies at all human’s feet. * * * Complete Reading This week we pulled the Nine of Cups. Abundance! Replenishment! Contentment! Victory! An advantageous card to be sure. Our first hexagram this week is #46, Pushing Upward. We sincerely hope the following does not arrive as repetitive — we know we’ve said as much before — but this hexagram contains our most prized quotation/wisdom of the I Ching: “adapting itself to obstacles and bending around them, wood in the earth grows upward without haste and without rest. Thus too the superior person is devoted in character and never pauses in their progress.” If we could we’d etch this into stone and display it on a large building. To be clear “without haste and without rest” is an aspiration, not something we believe as easy to do — but we know of no better insight. There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: if things are going well do not mar them with unprofitable worries and make sure persistent efforts are continually conscientious, and not done with a bullish sort of energy (if so, deep fatigue and malcontentedness will result). Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #4, Youthful Folly. Haha! Here now, by chance (🙄), is another prized notion from the I Ching — the pupil always seeks the teacher, never the other way around. We have experienced, in both roles (pupil and teacher), quite a few times, the disorder that results from getting this golden ratio wrong. The results can be fairly catastrophic, lasting years. In a very serious way this notion contains the essence of the I Ching’s first (arguably most important) two hexagrams, The Creative and The Receptive. It is like this: if the inexperienced tries to teach it can only be by lying/deception (for there is no actual knowledge) — if the educated tries to make a disciple out of one that is not actually interested, confusion, frustration and enduring enmity will result — patience for the right scenario is needed in life. Some further specifics: “A teacher’s answer to the question of a pupil ought to be clear and definite like that expected from an oracle; thereupon it ought to be accepted as a key for resolution of doubts and a basis for decision. If mistrustful or unintelligent questioning is kept up, it serves only to annoy the teacher. They do well to ignore it in silence, just as the oracle gives one answer only and refuses to be tempted by questions implying doubt... Given addition a perseverance that never slackens until the points are mastered one by one, real success is sure to follow. Thus the hexagram counsels the teacher as well as the pupil.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [Home Â]() [Instagram Â]( [Unsubscribe](