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41.6 - some musings:
this is a hexagram that includes coverage of alchemy issues where the 'decrease' is both positive in the form of concentrating, distilling, and negative when such action can fail and we get 'true' decrease - a pile of rubbish!
Chris.
I think of the line, "There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."
Thanks Bruce, a nice way to look at it - some people here really need to start writing their own commentaries and i think you are one of them
Does it advise you to give or receive generously - or both ? But to recap why should you lose your dwelling in that process ?
Hi Trojan
I think you've already got a pretty good grip on this line. 41 of course is about thinking economically, before this word got so perverted, or looking at the true cost of things in relation to their benefits, and doing more with less. I'm not certain that home is the best rendering of jia in this context (and certainly not dwelling) , although that should at least be implied. Family serves better with the linguistic context, where it balances better against chen, servants, as this sentence is set up grammatically. This suggests that we need to weigh the effects of our busy-ness on the quality and intimacy of our relationships. Do we really want to take on that much objectivity in the pursuit of our economic goals. I don't see this as being so much about charitable action as about finding ways to be useful, and therefore finding increasing demands on your time and resources.
Thanks Brad, do you think this includes the quality of the relationship with ourselves - if it does it will personally make alot of sense to me.
I know the idea is not to make things too easy for us
I'm needing some help with this line. I've thought about it so much and none of the commentaries I've read, none at all, shed much light for me in its application and when i woke up last night thinking on it I decided to ask here
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