Hexagram 40 is Release: untying knots, removing artificial restraints and compulsions, and restoring complete, natural freedom of movement. Its moving lines talk about different kinds of captivity and release: simple ‘mistake’ at the first line, the release of a firm grip at the fourth, release from a looming, ominous presence… Read more »Release from the foxes
Learnoutloud.com have a free audio download of the month, and currently this is Legge’s 1891 (or was it 1887?) translation of the Tao Te Ching. You have to sign up for a free membership to download it, but that’s all – no obligation to receive emails.
Not for the first time, someone’s written to ask me what it means that there’s ‘advantage in the southwest’ for her. So here’s a summary of one thing it means, at least – ‘The southwest’ in Yijing-language doesn’t usually mean literally the southwest. There can be the occasional exception, of… Read more »Advantage in the Southwest
It’s a pervasive character, this I Ching – its way of thinking gets everywhere. Nowadays I find that given a book and a pencil, I’ll be jotting hexagrams in the margins to remind myself of the main ideas. Here’s one that brings out the pencil – the Fourth Insight from… Read more »The Fourth Insight and Hexagram 6
One of the most popular links I ever posted was Eric Sewert’s ‘Way of Heaven’ site for calculating birth hexagrams. If you’re one of the people who emailed me to ask where it had gone – it’s moved to www.Hall-Of-Man.com.
I posted about hexagram 15, especially line 3. I hadn’t even noticed that Stephen Karcher had posted a reading of his own with the exact same hexagram and line. These grey hamsters get everywhere. There’s also a discussion about Stephen’s reading at the Great Vessel forum.
The Judgement of Hexagram 15 says that, ‘Integrity creates success, The noble one completes things.’ What’s the significance of ‘completing things’ (literally, ‘having completion’), as against just ‘succeeding’? Wilhelm translates this as ‘carries things through’ and describes it as completing one’s work; he mentions how much simpler and more effective… Read more »The noble one completes it?
