A listener’s reading for this episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast: Vidia asked, ‘How can I move forward and be of service?’ Yi answered with Hexagram 8, Seeking Union, with no changing lines – a beautifully simple answer that gave us the opportunity for a deep dive into its imagery and stories.
Mentioned during our conversation…
The name of the hexagram, bi, with its two human figures walking close together:
Rilke on living the questions:
…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
from Letters to a Young PoetAnd the nuclear hexagram of 8, which is 23, Stripping Away:
(Here’s a quick introduction to nuclear hexagrams.)
I too have been asking the same question. Thank you so much for sharing this. I especially appreciated the Rilke quote reminding me to be with the question without so much impatience about finding answers.
It’s a good question!
Thanks for your comment – I’m glad you enjoyed the episode.