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In 53.6 it says "have words, no fault", which also sounds a lot like what I did. So maybe the expression is neutral. Can be positive - or negative. Depends on circumstances. A warning - or an advice.
*** later...
Lol, must be a day of mistakes. Read the wrong line, but it did help. I did start out with the line of the money-belt, but somewhere it changed in my mind to the line with the small words. The moneybelt made me decide not to make an issue of it but instead be the wisest one. Did Yi it/him/herself trick me into reading that other line as well??
Today I found a new meaning for the expression "there is talk", literally "have words".
It figures 5 times in the Yi. At 6.1, 36.6, 47 judgment, 51.6 and 53.1.
I had made a mistake.
So maybe the expression is neutral. Can be positive - or negative. Depends on circumstances. A warning - or an advice.
Our English language can seem that way, too. We have devised ways of making everything we say or write excruciatingly precise --- tenses as time markers, parts of speech, set sentence structure -- while the Asian peoples don't seem to want to care about all that.
Seems to me it's right what you said, "So maybe the expression is neutral. Can be positive - or negative. Depends on circumstances."
Doesn't the average Asian person prefer to keep his or her verbal expressions rather obscure? Maybe that's why so many of the lines in the I Ching are useful and applicable even if turned around and looked at from many angles, even from the opposite point of view.
English might have 250,000 [words].
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