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I'ts good that you're clariftying your postion, but I never meant for my reading to imply anything about what you said. I just thought it was an interesting idea, and therefore decided to do a new query about it. I did it in a new thread so I wouldn't 'muddy the waters' - as they say - of the other discussion.I hope everyone realizes that I never said anyone should rally behind him.
Freedda,
I'm concerned you may be getting too far in to character and that we'll have to get out the butterfly net and tranq you for your own safety.
Well, isn't that just like a liberal to want to trap and tranquilize someone for expressing their opinions! But not to worry, my deeply-held liberal, left-wing roots (and wings) are still intact and don't need clipping.Freedda, I'm concerned you may be getting too far in to character and that we'll have to get out the butterfly net and tranq you for your own safety.
Well, isn't that just like a liberal to...
Bashing Trump is a sacred duty.it's okay to freely bash these people.
Hello Moss Elk. Actually, what I said is ...Bashing Trump is a sacred duty.Freedda said:
it's okay to freely bash these people ...
Okay, understood. D.Hi Freedda, I didn't intend to put meaning in your mouth.
I simply latched on to that phrase, ...
He isn't there for selfish motives.
This statement is Truly worthy of ridicule.
Everything the man has ever done is for his own enrichment at the expense of others.
Well you can of course ridicule the Yi if you wish but that is unlikely to enlarge your understanding of anything at all.
Unselfish is in fact what the commentaries say.
"Legge: ...There is however, no selfishness in his intent. He has all the world before him with which to unite. Selfish thoughts concerning union have no place in him."
- LL
Are Trump's intentions pure? I think 32.2 - 62 says yes. However, it doesn't tell us what his intentions are! Or maybe it does, maybe it's saying his core, pure intention is to Endure in office - the rest is just Details!
Excellent analysis; thank you so much for taking the time to share it!Hi Rosada
I'd agree with you when you say 'yes' here.
An intention is a plan or a goal that is being aimed for. In respect of the purity of his intentions, to my way of looking at it, a pure intention is one where actions align with words.
Trump has a direction to go, is being consistant and is repeatedly making offerings to his plan ( new schemes, new diversions, new tweets etc,) therefore his approach is smack on a description of 32 behaviour. He is certainly aligning himself with the best practice words of the verse:
A noble one stands firm and does not change his bearings.’
Trump has very little time for regrets around the things he says or does and therefore stays at the centre of his own belief system - he is constant in his self belief i.e. what he says and does is absolutely right for him, and for the things he holds to be true. (32.2)
(62)The bigger picture of all this though is that the way he behaves could be linked to how his own vulnerabilities, which he is unwilling to reveal to the world, are ruling him. What he sees as largesse and power, in the way he acts and speaks, are little more than exaggerations intended to defend the smallness inside, that he holds inside. To feel safe, the little bird keeps flying in the eye of the storm that is raging all around. Manipulating the edges of the eye ( this is fake news) and the magnitude of the storm ( Turkey) to shore up the defence of his 'pure intention', In the grand scheme of things he is only able to engage with 'smallness', the lower details of his character, as seen from a Yi perspective, and reflect these externally. He is not able to transition towards embracing any of the more 'great affairs' that could be available for him on a personal level and which if allowed could expand outwards to become a more magnanimous and beneficent global presence.
He is being true to what he holds true in himself. What he holds true to himself through is small, in many ways. By continuing to retain the stance he has his worlds ( inner and outer) could become more challanging for him. Exterior events might even bring up in him embryoic new ways of being that have, to date, been so small for him as to have been invisible, If he is able to connect with the grief and poverty he holds deep inside then his 'pure intentions' may develop to become more fitting and sincere.
(NB: I've brought in a few themes from Nuclear (43 - Deciding and Parting), Paired (31 - Influence) and Opposite (42 - Increasing) hexagrams to weave a bit of a story here, but they all seem to mingle and I can't decide on where to put the brackets with the hex number in. So I've left them out - a bit of a Where's Wally / Waldo test .)
....and of course it may be nothing like this at all.
Good Luck.
Clarity,
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