49 - Ko / Revolution ( Molting )
Waking up in pain this morning, viewing the persistent cloud of voter fraud and other dirty tricks that have followed all our efforts with Bernie, I turned to my source of strength today, the I Ching - the Book of Changes.
The time for the 49th Hexagram - Revolution, has arrived. I quote at length.Thousands of years old, it is better than any diary I can write. Take courage my sisters and brothers. Take courage Bernie, the time of Revolution has come:
49 - Ko - Revolution / Molting
The Judgment
Revolution. On your own day
You are believed.
Supreme success,
Furthering through perseverance.
Remorse disappears.
Political revolutions are extremely grave matters. They should be undertaken only under stress of direst necessity, when there is no other way out. Not everyone is called to this task, but only the man who has the confidence of the people, and even he only when the time is ripe. He must then proceed in the right way, so that he gladdens the people and, by enlightening them, prevents excesses. Furthermore, he must be quite free of selfish aims and must really relieve the need of the people. Only then does he have nothing to regret.
Times change, and with them their demands. Thus the seasons change in the course of the year. In the world cycle also there are spring and autumn in the life of peoples and nations , and these call for social transformations.
The Image
Fire in the lake: the image of REVOLUTION.
Thus the superior man
Sets the calendar in order
And makes the seasons clear.
Fire below and the lake above combat and destroy each other. So too in the course of the year a combat takes place between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, eventuating in the revolution of the seasons, and man is able to adjust himself in advance to the demands of the different times.
The Lines
Six in the second place means:
When one's own day comes, one may create revolution.
Starting brings good fortune. No blame.
When we have tried in every other way to bring about reforms, but without success, revolution becomes necessary. But such a thoroughgoing upheaval must be carefully prepared. There must be available a man who has the requisite abilities and who possesses public confidence. To such a man we may well turn. This brings good fortune and is not a mistake. The first thing to be considered is our inner attitude toward the new condition that will inevitably come. We have to go out to meet it, as it were. Only in this way can it be prepared for.
Nine in the fourth place means:
Remorse disappears. Men believe him.
Changing the form of government brings good fortune
Radical changes require adequate authority. A man must have inner strength as well as influential position. What he does must correspond with a higher truth and must not spring from arbitrary or petty motives; then it brings great good fortune. If a revolution is not founded on such inner truth, the results are bad, and it has no success. For in the end men will support only those undertakings which they feel instinctively to be just.
Nine in the fifth place means:
The great man changes like a tiger.
Even before he questions the oracle
He is believed.
A tigerskin, with its highly visible black stripes on a yellow ground, shows its distinct pattern from afar. It is the same with a revolution brought about by a great man: large, clear guiding lines become visible, understandable to everyone. Therefore he need not first consult the oracle, for he wins spontaneous support of the people.
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It's no longer an election, subject to math, calculations and parties. It is a revolution people. Give Bernie a day or two and he will show us the way forward, and we will see it, clear as the stripes on a tiger. Those inside the Beltway and the political machine can never imagine what will hit them...a whole goddamn nation of people who are taking back what is theirs!
Fucking Revolution Baby!!
Bern Baby Bern! Now we're gong to get out turn!!- Nemoshell
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Tao Te Ching 13
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Tao Te Ching 17
That has become my favorite passage
…in the Tao Te Ching, over the years. In the translation I use, the last line reads:
The people look upon their work, amazed, and they say. "We built that ourselves."
It refers to the most enlightened leaders of all: Those who are invisible.