Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Binding and opening its trunk. This is not a mistake.
Calm and stabilize your heart. This lets you see where your real motivations lie. A fertilizing shock has roused your dormant creative energy. In this time of abundance you can see only dimly. Even though you have found a place to abide you know a greater mission awaits. Step outside the norms. Do not be afraid to act alone. These goings and comings will release the energy now bound up in the past. You are connected to a creative force.
Richard Wilhelm
Keeping his trunk still.
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No blame.
As has been pointed out above in the comment on the Judgment, keeping the back at rest means forgetting the ego. This is the highest stage of rest. Here this stage has not yet been reached: the individual in this instance, though able to keep the ego, with its thoughts and impulses, in a state of rest, is not yet quite liberated from its dominance. Nonetheless, keeping the heart at rest is an important function, leading in the end to the complete elimination of egotistic drives. Even though at this point one does not yet remain free from all the dangers of doubt and unrest, this frame of mind is not a mistake, as it leads ultimately to that other, higher level.
