No Magic Cleaver

From the Hoi Polloi Tarot, the Lovers; from the I Ching Pack, Hexagram 9 (Restraint):

Those who regard the mundane

as a hindrance to life and practice

only understand that

in the mundane nothing is sacred;

what they have not yet understood

is that in sacredness

nothing is mundane.

— Dogen Zenji

The woman gazes up at the angel, as if she could spiritually bypass all the grittiness of life. The man gazes at the woman, as if he might indulge every selfish pleasure without reaping any consequences. Yet there is no magic cleaver - the sacred and mundane cannot be separated. Hexagram 9 - Wind over Dragon - suggests "gently stroking the dragon's back." It implies restraint rather than choosing one extreme or the other. As Dogen explained, "Sacred and mundane, just as they are, intermingle freely." It's a package deal.