Tao of Life Tele Study

His selection is the I Ching, from the Commentary - The Universal Life - in Hexagram 63, After Crossing The Water, pages 613 - 625.

"I have plenty of challenges when it comes to refining myself that I regularly learn from. I can sometimes get stuck in contemplating what I can do to help others. The message I regularly receive is that my working on myself is the thing I can do to help others. I understand this and yet I still desire to change the external world. My desire to help myself came from a desire to escape pain. This same desire fuels my interest in helping our community escape collective pain.

This passage seems to illustrate this may not be a healthy goal. It is written that death "purifies." One of my goals is to allow others to be purified by their pain as I have experienced with my own. Yet, I can't deny our collective human nature seems to be entering a larger death cycle. I have a hard time accepting the lack of control inherent in my own physical death, and that of our society.”