Seven Stars · Depth
Has your heart drifted away from you?
A quiet practice to unwind a heart worn by information and speed, so you never leave yourself. Depth is not complexity, but the power to stay at your own core.
Try, just once, to stop striving to be better, to improve.
Insight
Depth means never leaving yourself.
Depth is not complexity. The essence lies not in novelty but within the seemingly ordinary everyday. Everything begins by filling the "depth of the self" that is closest to you.
When those nearest are pleased, people come from afar. But the one nearest to us is our own self.
Are you bringing joy to the self that is closest to you?
Priority
What remains, in the end, is the one who lives by their own axis.
The power to produce right answers will, in time, be handed over to AI. As information standardizes and gaps in skill narrow, what remains is the one who lives by their own axis — not others' eyes — and who notices their own change.
The power to find the right answer
As information standardizes, skill gaps narrow, and AI gradually takes this over.
The power to live by your own axis
Only those who live by their own axis, not others' eyes, and who notice their own change, remain in the end.
- Return to your core
- Notice change
- Correct daily drift
- An unshaken steadiness
- Essence within the ordinary
Three Times
Not to observe, but to dialogue with yourself.
There are several forms to the time we spend turning inward. What YiShuiKong values is to "dialogue" with your own self.
Zen
A time to see yourself — gaze at yourself quietly.
Mindfulness
A time to observe the now — become aware of the here and now.
YiShuiKong
A time to dialogue with your own self — fill your depth.
The essence is within the seemingly ordinary, not in novelty.
Root
What you need is the power to keep returning to your true self.
Notice your own change and pause before you overdo it. Then, by yourself, correct the small drifts of daily life. That repetition becomes an unshakable settled power.
Notice
The power to notice your own change.
Pause
The power to return before strain.
Correct
The power to fix daily drift yourself.
Settled power
An unshaken, quiet stability.
Stay
Rather than going somewhere, stay here.
Not going somewhere, but staying right here.
Seven Stars
Not flashy, yet a practice surely needed for what's ahead.
Everything begins by filling your own depth. Move on to each of the Seven Stars — Body, Breath, Heart, Breadth, Beauty, Practice — and deepen your training.
