innately innocent - the iching & a kosmocentric view?

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The I Ching teaches how to relate to the world from a *kosmocentric place [vs. ethnocentric or egocentric place].

This especially became evident to me tonight as I read the words in hexagram 25, after pondering on a 'perceived' difficult situation of ‘relatedness' and misunderstanding at work. (likely due to breakdown in communication).

I say 'perceived' since in the end it all comes down to how our choice to responding/reacting to experiences or observing them as they are yet remaining the 'observer'.  It seems very possible for one to master this and to learn to not 'react' with labels such as 'difficult' or 'burdened' or 'victim' or 'wronged'.

Yet - on the mundane level - it felt like a huge bubble of blaah-ness these past weeks, as if the very air was in a burdened void & unable to circulate - - yet I learned through the i-ching when to stay still and when to move.

And yeah - many moments I forgot myself and saw the result of that also. The result of what can happen when one is not operating from a place of ‘pure-heart' or the ‘bigger view' or ‘lightbearer'. You know? .. that not so ‘pure-' place clouded by emotion or exhaustion and mind activity but very ‘real' experientially.

With a ‘pure heart ' we open up and place ourselves in the ‘other's' shoes and see through the experience more easily. There is less ‘burden' and more compassion even if one feels wronged or overwhelmed in the moment.

The i-ching reminds us of pure heartedness, of our innocence, or our truest nature, or what is real and of how to live life- all of it- (the stellar moments and the weaker ones also) -with integrity. - and no, it doesn't all have to happen at once, lol, but it certainly takes us a step closer to that which already is (our essential pure nature) each moment.

in fact, we begin seeing that there is no such thing as being ‘wronged' ;-) and equally no such thing as being ‘right' lol

It resonates in every fiber of my being that this is the very nature of being human. To know one's own nature - man as the essence of god , god manifest through man. To knOw so that one can then practically engage in the world from that place of ‘innocence'.

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So here are some important words offered to me tonight through the iching on ‘innocence' (pure mindedness)

(from the wilhelm version: hexagram 25)

25. Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected)

above CH'IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN
below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER

..."Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his
movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an
unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and
without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage. This
instinctive certainty brings about supreme success and ‘furthers through
perseverance".

However, not everything instinctive is nature in this higher
sense of the word, but only that which is right and in accord with the will of
heaven. Without this quality of rightness, an unreflecting, instinctive way of
acting brings only misfortune. Confucius says about this: "He who departs
from innocence, what does he come to? Heaven's will and blessing do not go
with his deeds."."..

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*here's an article referencing the ‘kosmocentric' view within a practical framework. It is the basic context through which i am using the word ‘kosmocentric'

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ref:
http://www.wie.org/j33/guru-pandit.asp?page=3