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Christensen: When pulling out grass roots make the whole network of roots [come out]. If you correct this good [then crops can grow [with success].Yin reaches its apogee and fades,
Yang's virtuous power is established.
Treading on fire and bearing the light,
All are illuminated.
But the merit cannot last,
A toad replaces the king on the throne.
Christensen: To shelter and support small people is good. [However,] by refraining from doing so the great man [actually] makes things go well.Gui, Bi, Cong, Zhang,
Precious objects used for audiences with the king.
Bai Li Xi and Ning Qi,
Employed by Qi and Qin.
Christensen: Conceal what is shameful.Losing the confidence of family and friends,
Spouse gone out the door,
Hesitant as a rabbit,
Dejected as an old cur.
Christensen: If you have an assignment leaving your farmland is not a mistake but in fact, a blessing.A niche in the southwest corner,
There Yao and Shun dwell.
Preserving lives,
Safeguarding the nation.
Here I'll break from Christensen and go with Field. He describes how the last Shang King was so bad that after his death the people proclaimed "No More! No More!" and this is why we create our contingency plan.Two ducks flying together,
Returning to the rice paddy to seek food.
Wounded by arrows as they pass through the reeds,
The sigh of it harrows the heart.
This is the line of overturning the obstruction. It seems to need its yang leverage and not to use up its strength, in order to accomplish the task. Otherwise the corruption goes on until the state of the kingdom deteriorates. The bit about first obstruction, and then happiness, suggests that there is a process here at work. We aren't given a lot to go on about the operation. However later on we can see that withdrawing this line's change might indicate what is good for the great man. Or perhaps changing this line, might also indicate a personal overturning, but one that does not address the blockage in the world. And that this line's true overturning needs to accomplish more change than just its own.The square baskets are broken,
The round baskets worn through,
They lie abandoned in the road.
Crushed and collapsed, pierced and ruined,
Never again to hold treasures.
Chasing the hare here represents seeking the throne. Officials and nobles are represented by lines 4 and 6, protecting each other even though the king remains in power. This suggests that the king's corruption is able to be in force even if it doesn't fully capitulate.Officials and nobles guard one another,
Protecting one another to remain without blame.
Chasing the hare and not catching it,
The elder is sad and troubled.
Notably here the true man (zhen ren, a daoist immortal) is not on the throne, but on the mountain peak. Though they have the power of a sage-king, it is following heaven's mandate that fulfills their role. It is their offering that receives the blessing of heaven, though the people favor the person not their conduct, because much of it is likely invisible to them.The precipitous heights of the mountain's southern peak,
This is where the true man dwells.
Though ones virtuous power is that of a Yao or Shun,
It is following heaven's mandate that makes a son of heaven.
The libation receives the blessing,
But it is the person himself whom the people favor.
In one month there are six nodes of five days;
warp and weft abide by the command of the Sun.
Altogether they are sixty:
the firm is external, the yielding internal.
At dawn of the month's first day, Zhun ䷂ is on duty;
when sunset comes, Meng ䷃ duly takes charge.
One hexagram for each day and each night:
their operation follows the Sequence.
With Jiji ䷾ and Weiji ䷿ comes the clear light of the month's last day;
after the end there is another beginning.
The Sun and the Moon set periods and measures;
movement precedes, quiescence follows.
Spring and summer accord with the innor core,
from zi to chen and si;
autumn and winter match the outer function.,
from wu to xu and hai.
Reward and punishment respond to spring and autumn;
dimness and light comply with cold and heat.
The Statements on the Lines contain humanity and righteousness,
and issue joy or anger in accordance with the time.
Thus by responding to the four seasons,
the five agents attain their principle.
In Aztec cosmology, the crocodile, known as the Cipactli, symbolized the earth floating in the primeval waters, and appears as the symbol of the first calendar day of the Aztec calendar. The Cipactli symbolized the beginning of the earth and the beginning of all things that are created in the physical realm.
The Cipactli represented psychic powers, wisdom and the power of manifestation. The most powerful manifesting tool that we have is the power of the mind, and it is the source of where our reality is created.
@moss elk said:
Daeluin said:
It is a good question, really.
I think so too, that's why I asked it. :]
However, The question you answered is not the one I asked.
So, that begs another question:
Did you intentionally avoid it?
Being a loner and being lonely are not one and the same.
To set up righteousness, establish the punishments;
when humanity is in order, let virtue come forth.
"Those who transgress this have ill fortune;
those who comply with it have good fortune."
Thoroughly consider the laws and the ordinances,
with utter sincerity and concerted attention;
cautiously watch the markers of time,
attentively inspect the ebb and flow.
Even with the smallest of errors,
regret and remorse would possess you.
I'm not sure what a 'loner' is - a label of some kind?
It's just occurred to me that you identified yourself when you posted a video here recently. You are now describing your clients and so potentially people may know who your clients are and what they're going through which is a bit of a risk re confidentiality between you and the client isn't it?First client was pregnant, was just glowing after, not issues with stiffness. Second client was hard to deal with the stiffness in, I did a bit of cleansing. I also noticed that my solar plexus would activate a bit more when I was sinking into my hips and not leaning forward as much. The solar plexus helped me to keep my boundaries a bit and burn up the energy through my cleansing instead of sending it into the center of the earth to be burned away
I get to put this into practice a little with my last client, who is a modern ballet dancer whose mother is a massage therapist. This person does self-care, and I only have issues with stiffness around their mid-back.
It's an interesting way to think of 32.4 especially given the usual interpretation of 'there's nothing here for you' rarely fits in my own experience. It's in italics so I assume it's a quote but from who?Fields, no game. When strength is in the body of action, the time is for doing -- this is like having fields to plow. If one then dwells in a position of weakness, the will inactive, constantly embracing the Tao but unable to put it into practice, that is like empty fields with no game to watch for. This is constancy without any action.
All of the translation and commentary in this thread are from Cleary/Liming in The Taoist I-Ching, or Forest of Changes. Many of them were attributed and at this point I'll just continue on assuming that is clear for this thread, and make notes if I use other sources, which doesn't seem likely.It's an interesting way to think of 32.4 especially given the usual interpretation of 'there's nothing here for you' rarely fits in my own experience. It's in italics so I assume it's a quote but from who?
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).