In the I Ching, Hexagram #52 is the image of the mountain. The mountain has tremendous, dense weight and is unmovable, representing a inner state of stability achievable with meditation and Chinese yoga, aka qigong.
“…In its application to man, the hexagram turns upon the problem of achieving a quiet heart. It is very difficult to bring quiet to the heart. While Buddhism strives for rest through an ebbing away of all movement in nirvana, the Book of Changes holds that rest is merely a state of polarity that always posits movement as its complement. Possibly the works of the text embody directions for the practice of yoga.
THE JUDGEMENT
KEEPING STILL. Keeping his back still
So that he no longer feels his body.
He goes into his courtyard and does not see his people.
No blame.
True quiet means keeping still when the time has come to keep still, and going forward when the time has come to go forward. In this way rest and movement are in agreement with the demands of the time, and this there is light in life.
The hexagram signifies the end and the beginning of all movement. The vack is named because in the back are located all the nerve fibers that mediate movement. If the movement of these spinal nerves is brought to a standstill, the ego, with its restlessness, disappears as it were. When a man has thus become calm, he may turn to the outside world. He no longer sees in it the struggle and tumult of individual beings, and therefore he has that true peace of mind which is needed for understanding the great laws of the universe and for acting in harmony with the, Whoever acts from these deep levels makes no mistakes.”
I Ching
Wilhelm/Baynes edition (1950), Princeton University Press
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