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So I finally broke down and just put it to the Yijing, a question that was perhaps bigger than I realized. But I knew it was a big one. I have been trepidatious about asking the Yijing questions which are of ultimate meaning and grave purpose, simply because I was not sure I could bear the onslaught of the truth of the answer...
Nonetheless, I was watching a movie seeing men die and families slaughtered and women get raped by evil people and gangsters.. while playing a game called "Migration" which is about helping animals make it to their migratory destination, without getting eaten.
I decided to go ahead and ask one of the biggest questions...
"What is the cosmic or ultimate purpose of life?"
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60 unchanging
Limitation?
Wow. So the purpose of life is to experience the finite, the limited, conservation of novelty.
"Unlimited possibilities are not suitable" to life...
That makes sense. It seems it's really what life is about...
Some people turn away from the infinite and live their lives
in their narrow self righteousness...
In fact most it seems. I turn back to the infinite and live my life,
I admire those others that do also, but they are few...
Glad I didn't get 23, 36 or 44 hehe...
Of course this opens up a whole new set of questions...
Hex 60 as simplicity manifest
The wonder of hexagram 60 is that it represents the final quiescent fulfillment of its set. The flowing water has come to rest within the local topography to form a lake. It is an achievement of a great symphony of forces and developments though it just sits there quietly reflecting the sky. What started in the Divine power manifest in awesome thunder has settled out as simple limitation of possibilities within local available structure.
Frank
"What is the cosmic or ultimate purpose of life?"
60 unchanging
Limitation?
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OTOH the answer could mean "you need to narrow your question down a bit cos I can't fit the meaning into one hexagram theres 64 of em". What you tend to leave out of your readings is you. You take the answer as pure objective fact....how can it be ? Cyclo asked this question on the 20th may 2011, got hex 60 and so this settles the meaning of life once and for all ? Or maybe the answer was for Cyclo on 20th may 2011
If all of us asked Yi the same question I expect we would all get different answers though it would be phenomenal if we all got 42 !
It could also be that the answer was showing something to reflect upon, while watching your own reverberations rising on the surface .. my guess is that the answers of the I Ching often fit our needs at the moment, directing our next questions rather than answering them. On the other hand, if meaning is created thru our own limitations, it can also be saying that your life's meaning is what you'll make of it . . a very definite (in distinction to definitive) but far-ranging answer too
I think 60 is a perfect answer to what Purpose of Life is about. Focus. every individual is a point of focus, you see the world from your particular lens, the sacred lens of your unique vantage point. And to work with that (seemingly) narrow focus is the purpose. It doesnt mean a disadvantage, it means your opportunity, your particular gift of Life. perfect your focus, cultivate what is yours to cultivate.
Imagine if every kid went to college and never focused on what called to them, the thing natural to their talent and interest. what if they got so distracted by all the stimuli and possibility and social interaction that they never honed in on their true purpose there? They would end up scattered and lost, and without purpose nor direction.
having a particular focal point does not preclude endless possibility, the possibilities for cultivation are enormous, success is expansive, creativity in your endeavors is wide open. but to know who you are, and to embrace your sacred focal point- your unique window onto the world of this existence-- is to find your purpose, and to be it in action.
My favorite " definition" is the one of J. Campbell. “Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is Whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”
Trojan you seem to have the tendency to relate almost every divination back to the person casting it (at least for me). So there is no objective information, everything is rendered subjective. Is that something you just apply to CyclotronMajesty or to all divinatory messages from the Yijing? And if so why? I agree that sometimes the book seems to take this sort of route, but I've noticed it seems only to apply it when the question is vague, flippant sarcastic etc.
"Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong, a man's life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted. The individual attains significance as a free spirit only by surrounding himself with these limitations and by determining for himself what his duty is." Wilhelm 60
For me, the idea here is that, delineation defines the individual. Our border is our outline, our cut or delineated features define us. "The meaning" is that individual existence and consciousness are able to be experienced. I can say "I" and "thou". Through separation, distinguishable measures can give meaning to life, such as the grains of sand, or what one deems as moral or right. That defines each individual thing as well.
I think one could take any of the 64 hexagrams and write a fairy convincing piece about how they describe the meaning life.....which is great because they all do, they all are part of the meaning of life.
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