How to Cultivate more Resilience and Acceptance? 24.1.6> 23

[marybluesky]

I started by seeing this "real" hexagram pair () without considering the lines; with 23 as the context, and interpreting it like "by recovering myself from times of disintegration."
In other words, the disintegration is inevitable. Nothing can be done to escape it. But I can help myself recover.

Other way to interpret the cast: by accepting the fact that life is a mixture of beginning and falling apart.

That was my initial take.

If I am to read the lines, still considering 23 as the context:
24.1: by returning early from the path to disintegration;
24.6: if it's too late, nothing can be done.

As my question is about resilience and acceptance, and the first and sixth line of 24 change, I relate more to my first take.

 

[Marinaflsenda]

Hi, when I got two changing lines in a cast, I use to read the highest as the auspicious one and the lowest as an advise or support, so this is what I would say:

Line 1 (advice): This line shows that your subject does not move forward but rather returns from the beginning of a situation that would probably lead to freezing it.
Thus, no remorse is generated, because the person immediately realizes about this negative situation and the need to change course. Once the new situation is implemented, the person will see that best to do was to turn back so no regret.
An important point to note is that, if the person continues, the tendency of the condition they are in now is to become long-lasting and rigid.

So I think the advice is definitely that, as you said, disintegration was neccesary but also to do something not to make it permanent.

Line 6 (current situation and its development):
Line says It seems you are ignoring the need for change and you react against change. That is why you suffers and attract harm to yourself.
The correct way to act would be to know and accept the circumstances. It seems, however, that the tendency of this line is not to act in this way.
It seems you are alienating yourself and being agressive to others causing you bad luck, misfortunes and calamities.
Therefore, it is imperative that the person who got this line try to see what is happening, what is emerging, and try to adapt as best as possible, because she is unable to remain in a situation that no longer exists, that is ending. It cannot go backwards and cannot sustain on its own a fight against the changes that are coming. This is true for issues related to the outside world as well as for those concerning the inner realities of the person.

It seems to me (I´m guessing) that the book is advicing you to not avoid help from others, not being assolated to stop from focusing on what´s going on in your mind... Maybe mindfulness or meditation group sessiones would help? Or joing a therapy group with other people in your situation?

I hope you can solve it and be ok soon.

 

[steve]

Hi,

Yes thats interesting, I would interperet that with line 6 as well. Line 6 I think is about a possible timing issue. There is not much we can do under these circumstances. Line 1 for me has always been positive in the way its small correction, like I gone off path slightly but then realised it.

I think you are right though, if you read it as a pair then I woud agree. Also, as mentioned like 6 reinforce's the answer.

Just curious, is there any correction or slight awakening in the answer or no?

 

[marybluesky]

Just curious, is there any correction or slight awakening in the answer or no?

No idea

 

[thisismybody]

Late reply… 24.1.6 sounds like Yi is giving you the 12-step program “Serenity Prayer” (per Wikipedia):

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

24.1 - some things you can change…(so return to the correct path)
24.6 - some things you can’t change…(if it’s too far gone, it’s not changeable. Is it too far gone?)

Having the wisdom to know the difference fosters acceptance of conditions and can make one more resilient, if you ask me.

Yi says something like, “take a look at your life, your behaviors, everything in your realm and place it up against the litmus test of the Serenity Prayer”…

I feel like the quality execution of that process could forge a person into someone wise, resilient, and at ease with what is and isn’t. Like you said earlier…

…by accepting the fact that life is a mixture of beginning and falling apart.

So true.