梅花電腦 - Cosmological Computation Terminal
Conditions favor initiative. Move forward.
Water over lake. Create number and measure, examine the nature of virtue and correct conduct. A lake can contain only a definite amount of the infinite quantity of water—this is its peculiarity. In human life, the individual achieves significance through discrimination and setting of limits. Unlimited possibilities are not suited to us; if they existed, life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong, life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted.
Contented limitation. Success. Every limitation has its value, but a limitation that requires persistent effort entails a cost of too much energy. When limitation is natural—like water flowing only downhill—it necessarily leads to success, for it means saving energy. The energy that otherwise would be consumed in a vain struggle is applied wholly to the matter in hand.