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无 wu2: without / not / no / avoid /
交 jiao1: to deliver / to turn over // to make friends / to have sexual intercourse / to mix / to join // to cross / to intersect (lines) /
害 hai4: to do harm to / to cause trouble to / harm / evil / calamity /
匪 fei3: bandit / evildoer /
咎 jiu4: blame / to blame / mistake
艱 jian1: difficult / hard / hardship /
則 ze2: (expresses contrast with a previous sentence or clause) / standard / norm / rule / to imitate / to follow / then / principle /
无 wu2: without / not / no / avoid /
咎 jiu4: wrong / blame / to blame / mistake /
无交害匪咎
DO NOT MARRY HARMFUL BANDITS [WHICH SHOULD BE] WRONG.
Don't mix with toxic people.
Don't commit the mistake of joining with somebody that's hurting you, that's not love.
艱則无咎
HARD BUT NO WRONG.
Difficult although correct.
Hi, Courtney:That is Zhouyi(14).
Is this TUAN?
I see the difference as the second one has negative connotations. (??)
I am probably screwing this all up. Please help me understand.
Courtney:Is the TUAN the same as the TEN WINGS? ... and is that the same as the DAZHUAN and the GREAT COMMENTARY?
Charly, this is where I got those words. You are reading my mind.
And I appreciate your fancy fun honesty. Is your translation purchasable or available to download?
How I tend to learn is backwards. I cannot look at the details as much as need the bigger picture first. The backbone before the nerves etc. It seems lately I am trying to find a solid ground to build on. It is working, brick by brick. Soon I will have a huge house of Yijing and everyone will be invited in to play
A little advice: if you're building your Yijing house, make a chamber for Solomon's Song of Songs.
困 kun4: tree in a square
THE SONG OF SONGS (ŠIR HAŠŠIRIM) AND THE BOOK OF SONGS (SHIJING): AN ATTEMPT IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
For Professor Wu-chi Liu at his 90th birthday on July 22, 1997
Marián Gálik
Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
The aim of this study is to analyse the lyric(al)ness of the two great specimens of the ancient and Chinese poetry Song of Songs and The Book of Songs. The different specificity of the lyricism is underscored in the poematis personae of two poetic works: more metaphoric language of the first and more synecdochic of the second, with attention to aesthetic sides of the depicted reality in first, and more restrained ethical values highlighted in the second. The first book is extrovertly and the second introvertly oriented. For both is typical the use of similes, although of different character.
pp. 45-75
Download full text in PDF format
http://www.aepress.sk/aas/full/aas197d.pdf
Source: http://www.aepress.sk/aas/aas197.htm
Are there other 'romantic' topics in the Old Testament? It seems out of place.
I've only heard reference to the Song of Songs but do not know much about it.....Are there other 'romantic' topics in the Old Testament? It seems out of place.
Not if interpreted symbolically: the Creator's lust for his creation. More than a hint of hexagram 11, I'd say.
Also, if a less pure-of-heart story would be considered as romantic, particularly for one where the hero was referred to as "a man after God's own heart," then 2 Samuel 11 would qualify as a paperback romance novel.
The Book of Ruth, and in praise of women, the 31st chapter of Proverbs: "The words of king Lemuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him."
Samuel meets Wuthering Heights. I see animal shows on the Discovery channel like this sometimes. Also, ducks, when they fly by or are swimming around in a pond together. I think of it as a wild romance novel.
Hi, Bruce:... if a less pure-of-heart story would be considered as romantic, particularly for one where the hero was referred to as "a man after God's own heart," then ... 2 Samuel 11 ... would qualify as a paperback romance novel.
Ch.Controversy over blame
Some commentaries shift the blame of the affair away from David. In its masking David's faults, the biblical Book of Chronicles does not mention the affair with Bathsheba in its narrative, but only gives the name of Bathsheba's children.
Modern commentaries have argued that considering that Bathsheba's house was hardly more than twenty feet away from David's palace and that people in ancient times were exceptionally modest about showing their bodies, culture experts have pointed out that Bathsheba seems to have displayed herself deliberately; that is, instead of being an innocent victim, she seduced David in order to rid herself of Uriah, a lowly paid foreigner, and move in with the king.[3] Nevertheless, the events are clearly faulted to David.
The faulting of David is not only made clear in the text from the very beginning. "It was springtime, the time when kings go forth to war... but David remained in Jerusalem" (2 Samuel 11:1). If David had been acting as a good king and been at war, the incident would not have taken place.[4] After the incident, of course, there is Nathan's rebuke in 2 Samuel 12 and the curse and events that follow. The Bathsheba incident, then, begins a shift in the book's perspective. David "is largely at the mercy of events rather than directing them."[5] He is no longer able to control his family and ends up being overthrown by Absalom. In 2 Samuel 13 there is another way the text blames David. In the story of David's son Amnon's rape of his sister Tamar. The placement of the rape so soon after the incident of Bathsheba seems to draw a parallel between sexual misconduct of father and son.[6]
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathsheba
Hi, Bruce:...But for a King with 700 wives and 300 concubines, one can't help to see a significant degree of lust involved as well, with this young sun tanned farm girl, with whom he was so smitten.
《乾》剛《坤》柔。
Strength in Qian, weakness in Kun we find. [Legge]
THE CREATIVE is strong. THE RECEPTIVE is yielding [Wilhelm/Baynes].
Quian (1) is firm. Kun (2) can be displaced[Rutt].
SUN IS FIRM. EARTH IS FLEXIBLE [Charly].
Phallus is firm. Womb is flexible.
申 the ninth of the Twelve Terrestrial Branches / to appeal / to plead / to state / to set forth / to explain / to explicate / to extend / to expand / to inculcate (especially repeatedly /
Seal:Bronze:Bone:
Source: http://www.chineseetymology.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?submitButton1=Etymology&characterInput=申
Also, you say 申 is associated with 3 to 5PM. Is this in reference to the Bladder Meridian?
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