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Q: What kind of follow-up questions could I have productively asked you? "What do you mean by 53 unchanging?" is the only (not very useful) one I can think of --- ??? [And again, the subtext would be, why not just give me 25.5 in the first place.]
A: 39.2.4 changing to 28 (Obstruction - Great Exceeding)
Huh? Here's where I'm stuck. Wilhelm-Baynes says:
39.2: The King's servant is beset by obstruction upon obstruction, But it is not his own fault.
39.4: Going leads to obstructions, Coming leads to union.
Was Yi purposely trying to "obstruct" me from the very beginning? Or, if Yi simply means I've hit a brick wall in trying to understand this situation and I should stop divining about it - okay, but then what about my original puzzlement, which still stands?
Thanks in advance for any help!
rebamboo, thank you for your thoughtful point-by-point answer. But...
...I still differ with you, that 53 unchanging is NOT as good an answer to the question as 25.5 would have been.
53 unchanging was a decent, passable, defensible answer (in hindsight), as you're pointing out. Which is exactly why I'm exasperated: Yi gave an answer that is DEFENSIBLE - it's just that there were better, more accurate, more-specific-to-the-question, more-useful-to-the-decision, answers.
Such as (I still think) 25.5, which says (emphasis mine, and this is the Wilhelm-Baynes translation):
Use no medicine in an illness
Incurred through no fault of your own.
It will pass of itself.
It does acknowledge an illness, and IMO is a much more literal description of how to treat a virus than 53 unchanging. The "incurred through no fault of your own" part is pretty much unimportant to this , but the rest of it is absolutely spot-on.
For sake of argument, since my question was - even more literally - "Go/no go to the doctor?" - why do you think Yi didn't give me 60.1?
Not going out of the door and the courtyard
Is without blame.
rebamboo, thank you for your thoughtful point-by-point answer. But...
...I still differ with you, that 53 unchanging is NOT as good an answer to the question as 25.5 would have been.
53 unchanging was a decent, passable, defensible answer (in hindsight), as you're pointing out. Which is exactly why I'm exasperated: Yi gave an answer that is DEFENSIBLE - it's just that there were better, more accurate, more-specific-to-the-question, more-useful-to-the-decision, answers.
Such as (I still think) 25.5, which says (emphasis mine, and this is the Wilhelm-Baynes translation):
Use no medicine in an illness
Incurred through no fault of your own.
It will pass of itself.
It does acknowledge an illness, and IMO is a much more literal description of how to treat a virus than 53 unchanging. The "incurred through no fault of your own" part is pretty much unimportant to this , but the rest of it is absolutely spot-on.
.[/I]
it just took me a long time to catch on!!
Myself, I don't know what to make of this.
If you just read the hexagrams, without the lines, Yi could be saying "Bringing Together (hex 31) for Mutual Support (hex 8)."
But, 8.3 seems to say that the premise of my question is wrong - this was NOT Yi's intent - and I don't know how to fit 8.4 or hex 31 in with that.
Well i'll be darned.... lol.Or 8.3 might mean its just a waste of time talking to us at all, we're the wrong people
Or 8.3 might mean its just a waste of time talking to us at all, we're the wrong people
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