Ji Yuan Shi
Yuan Yong Zhen
Wu Jiu
Bu Ning Fang Lai Hou Fu Xiong
Together
The good words of the Sages of Old
A spring flows from the cliff
Consulting the Yarrow
Perfectly in the flow of happy coincidence
There is a gesture acknowledging
Not by your own steps
Are you at the entrance of this cave
Nascent, unsheltered thy heart not elevated
Squarely coming, bordered ripeness of wheat
Simply trailing the silken thread of the steps of grown men before
This is a mistake
Broken stalks arranged
Side by side One stalk binds them
Together as one
Unbroken yarrow
Holding together the lined
Images to one
Imagine changes
Is the yarrow broken or
Is it unbroken
Qian twice unbroken
Changes together with one
Yarrow stroke connects
Kun is twice Qian
Parted yarrow here, whole there
Is it two or one
Singular yarrow
Creating togetherness
Bridging those sundered
In parallel tracks
Action together gets you
Where you want to go
Walk the yarrow bridge
Alert footsteps on the ground
Not missing a step
Being together
Arm in arm with good fortune
How doth it compare
Cliff face expressing
Ancient lines glistening with
Water flowing pure
Water seeps from cracks
Lining the cliff's face painting
Pictures with yarrow
Together fortune's
Goodness guides in rocky face
Crystal water flows
The source is yarrow's
Witness to perfect ever
Flowing circumstance
Perfectly ever
Flowing in each spring of time
Chance's charmed embrace
Wondering aloud
The cavern echoes footsteps
Could they be thy own
A head gestures No
It's not your own reflection
The turtle agrees
Unspoken gesture
Your predicament is not
Of your volition
Nascent thy altar
No place yet for the vessel
Sheltering your heart
It all comes to this
Squarely bounded fields of wheat
Delineated
Following grown men
Step by step the silken web
Beware its a trap
Side by side One stalk binds them
Together as one
Unbroken yarrow
Holding together the lined
Images to one
Imagine changes
Is the yarrow broken or
Is it unbroken
Qian twice unbroken
Changes together with one
Yarrow stroke connects
Kun is twice Qian
Parted yarrow here, whole there
Is it two or one
Singular yarrow
Creating togetherness
Bridging those sundered
In parallel tracks
Action together gets you
Where you want to go
Walk the yarrow bridge
Alert footsteps on the ground
Not missing a step
Being together
Arm in arm with good fortune
How doth it compare
Cliff face expressing
Ancient lines glistening with
Water flowing pure
Water seeps from cracks
Lining the cliff's face painting
Pictures with yarrow
Together fortune's
Goodness guides in rocky face
Crystal water flows
The source is yarrow's
Witness to perfect ever
Flowing circumstance
Perfectly ever
Flowing in each spring of time
Chance's charmed embrace
Wondering aloud
The cavern echoes footsteps
Could they be thy own
A head gestures No
It's not your own reflection
The turtle agrees
Unspoken gesture
Your predicament is not
Of your volition
Nascent thy altar
No place yet for the vessel
Sheltering your heart
It all comes to this
Squarely bounded fields of wheat
Delineated
Following grown men
Step by step the silken web
Beware its a trap
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