ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores the processes of change and balance as reflected in the hexagrams for the contemporary reader. The structure of the hexagram, with its open and yielding central lines, illustrates a truth about inner truth: that it draws on and puts its trust in emptiness and receptivity, allowing it to be rediscovered every moment. Truth is life-giving, life-enhancing, and it starts as an inner movement, a shaping within the stillness of mind and body. When still water is touched by the wind – no matter how lightly – it springs to life as if animated. Like ripples on the still water of a quiet mind, these movements indicate the direction from which truth is coming. The hexagram Chung Fu can also be taken to represent a meeting, perhaps the meeting of minds. The more profound the truth, the more empty and available must be the mind and heart of the individual seeker.
