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chrislofting
April 20th, 2004, 05:18 AM
> I just can not see chris conversing with the book of
> changes.In fact perhaps it is these sages themselves who
> have their own book they consult called the
> lofting.Unfortunatly too many of them keep getting hex 10
> line three!.Such a shame a brilliant mind like his has not
> grasped the value of humility.
>

10 Line 3
"Plunging into things without recognizing one's limitations can cause problems. Only in time of desperate need, e.g. war, is this justified."

The 'universal' scenario at work that is causing this 'distortion' to 10 is both a stimulus and response of 01 - IOW a focus on competitive exchange, singlemindedness, the 'way of the warrior'. (the stimulus-response of 'pure' hexagrams is always self-referencing to maintain the purity. Thus each of 01, 02, 29, 30, 51, 52, 57, 58 as context, as stimulus, elicit themselves as responses)

For 10.3 we see the comment reflecting that within this universal dynamic is introduced a local focus on conduct, on treading a path 'carefully' etc. That being the case, what do you expect? In singlemindedness there are no 'limitations' or if there are they are dismissed, impoverished ;-) Thus given long enough 10 will change into the required response - 01.

"CH'IEN: spirit power, creative and destructive; unceasing forward motion; dynamic, enduring, untiring; firm, stable; heaven, soverign, father; also: dry-up, parched, exhausted, cleared away. The ideogram: sprouts or vapors rising from the ground and sunlight, both fecundating moisture and scortching drought." ERANOS p94

Chris.

chrislofting
April 20th, 2004, 05:57 AM
BTW - from a heaven/earth perspective, and so swapping trigrams, the natural response to 10 is represented by characteristics of 43, that to 43 of characteristics of 10.

Chris.

frandoch
April 20th, 2004, 07:59 PM
Chris,

Your work is a brilliant intellectual exercise, but please remember that we have hearts as well as brains.

Your exquisitely detailed analysis of the Yi is of great value, but please consider this:

There is the known, the unknown, and the unknowable.

Science believes that there is only the known and the unknown, which will be known. But science can only KNOW ABOUT - it can never KNOW.

I KNOW you won't accept this, but I KNOW, as do others that life is a mystery which can only be experienced, not understood logically.

I'm sure you will produce pages of stuff to demonstrate that this can all be explained from the atoms and molecules of neuroscience, but we will still 'KNOW'. And you will still try to explain how recalcitrant we are - so be it.

However, please don't stop the good work.

Michael. F.