溫故知新 Old wisdom, today’s insight — ONGO
Cold Goes, Heat Comes
When a fiercely burning vitality and an age fade away, is that vanishing an end, or one joint in a cycle?
Cold goes and heat comes; heat goes and cold comes; cold and heat push each other on, and the year is completed.
The I Ching says cold goes and heat comes, heat goes and cold comes, and by that alternation the year is completed.
📝The Classic Answers
The I Ching says cold goes and heat comes, heat goes and cold comes, and by that alternation the year is completed. I read this line as a comfort about vanishing. A vitality that burned hot like a field of red sorghum fades when its season ends, yet that is not annihilation but one joint in a great cycle where cold and heat push each other onward. The heat of one generation must cool for the seed of the next to sprout in its place. Rather than grieving the cooling of what was hot as loss alone, I choose to remember it is a cycle pushing up what comes next.
🌱Apply It Today
If the heat of a season seems to be cooling, regard it as 'a cycle making room for what comes next,' and look for what is beginning to sprout.
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