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Hi Harmen-
You have to feel yourself getting old, first. It's that panicky feeling that you'll never get the job done before you die that pushes you into print. Then, once it's in print you have to defend it. That's where the certainty comes from. Lucky for you, you still have some time.
Hi Harmen-
You have to feel yourself getting old, first. It's that panicky feeling that you'll never get the job done before you die that pushes you into print. Then, once it's in print you have to defend it. That's where the certainty comes from. Lucky for you, you still have some time.
Well, yes, I think that was implied. But I agree with many of them, except I would remove 'Army', which is a nice straightforward translation (not the translator's problem if we think of the wrong kind of army), and maybe replace it with 'The Taming Power of the Small' (I think 'small' is more of an adverb than an actor in that one).... IMHO these are not the five worst translations of the sixliners' names, only Brad's opinion these are the five worst translations of the sixliners' names, and that's something completely different ...
Which are you thinking of?... besides, in the received Changes there are two more texts that further explain the names of the sixliners ... and this, accompanied with the historical context, can give us more accurate insight of the sixliners' names, as well as the text as a whole ...
......Having my findings in print makes it even worse - facts change, there are new developments, new findings, new research, new sources, making the printed work outdated. The way I translate the Yi now is entirely different from the way I translated it 20 years ago. My sources change, my insights change with it....
What about the well-known 'Rat' hexagram, always one of Brad's favourites?
I must have been dozing (old age you know), who or what is this well known 'Rat'?
Richard Rutt's name for Hexagram 15. You know, because the ancient Chinese found it so tremendously useful, when asking about how to conduct warfare or marriage or harvests, to get a response like 'Rat'.
Or how about Hexagram 14, 'large, there'?
Wonder why these didn't make Brad's list? Maybe because his name wasn't Wilhelm or Baynes?
You just can't help yourself. And you're not likely to seek help either.
You could have just answered the question. Seemed reasonable enough. Why didn't you choose RATS in your list of 5?
Anyway: Rats
If you didn't think the word "common" was implied then insert it between worst and translations.
... besides, in the received Changes there are two more texts that further explain the names of the sixliners ... and this, accompanied with the historical context, can give us more accurate insight of the sixliners' names, as well as the text as a whole ...
Which are you thinking of?
I wouldn't be without Rutt. He doesn't seem to believe the book is meant to make any sense, but his footnotes and foreword cram in a wealth of background information: not just the rat, but relevant quotations from the Songs, accounts of ancient divination, just basic stuff on how people lived. Also, I really like his translations of the Wings, especially the Dazhuan - very direct and readable.
The energy of 22 is inside. It is the outward appearance of this energy, and Yi talks about where it is visible in daily life (a scientific lecture on inner energy is not very helpful in readings). The hexagram is not about the appearances themselves, but rather an advice how to use them, or recognize them, how to be led by the inner value and not to stumble over the apprearances themselves. “The noble one has insight in many people's affairs without daring to judge in legal cases”. To call it adornment does not do justice to it, but “about adornment and how to deal with it” might be closer.AskingQuestions: I have a question. What is it about the flower, that gives it it's power? How does a flower work?
(this is a trick question! so answer thoughtfully)
忠誠盛於內,賁於外...
When loyalty and sincerity become complete within, they become apparent without...
(Xunzi, tr. John Knoblock)
When it is not entirely clear what bi as name means, then it is equally unclear what bi in the lines means. Applying one meaning for the other is a circle.Brad: .. the surfaces of things, as is implied by the meaning of the word bi (adornment),
is the subject matter or theme of all six lines. Any core meaning has to be a key
to understanding all six of the lines.
In the case of hexagram 22, the Mawangdui text uses fan 蘩 as the name of the hexagram. The pronunciation of this character pushes the sound of the character 賁 in the direction of the sound fen, which, besides bi, is another sound for the character. With that pronunciation 賁 is a loan for fen 奮, 'to express, to make visible'.
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... 'Sequence of the Sixliners' ('Xu Gua', 序卦) and 'Mixed Sixliners' ('Za Gua', 雜卦) ... while the historical context is the end of Shang (商)/Yin (殷) dynasty and beginning of Zhou (周) dynasty ...
I shall look forward to it. (Now, which gua is Olive?)...Quite the opposite of shy, yet not boastful either, just standing his or her own ground confidentially. Like Popeye the Sailor as opposed to Bluto. So when I write my IC I shall call h15 Popeye.
Maybe he believed people developed the power of coherent thought at some moment post-Zhouyi and pre-Wings?I'll second that motion on his notes and Wings translation. Shocking, really, with the quality of his Wings, considering what a meaningless hash he made of the Zhouyi translation.
Thats the best way to express 22- it doesn't limit it or add negative connotations. and it not opposing Whilhelm's "grace" if someone can take this world free of any secular connotations.
Asking about my mindmapping note-taking got 22 once. And nowadays doing my homework as a note taking method I do visual-note-taking. Its adornment , its beautifying, is stressing the meanings and relationships between subjects with colors, symbols, signs drawings cartoons. HAve been thinking 22 all the time.
Its about make visible in many different ways. It about the power of a stimuli to excite sensors, its about perception, attention, stripping, digging to find whats beneath. The energies, not in a " spiritual" kind of thinking but the energies, the waves of sound , the light excites our eyes, the shortcomings of our attention , the biases come together with our perception.
To Translate-interpret is 22.
I have no problem with the word grace for . In our country we don't pay much attention with the secular meaning . Its a very shortsighted view. Grace its about charis- charisma- " show your chares" we say, show your essence, make it visible. The usage from the Christian church of the word serves other purpose, but its also about presence.
The ceremony doesn't make anything happen unless you mean in a religious sense...which would depend on your religious views I suppose. I mean I see what happens is that legally there is a contract and so the person's legal and social status changes on being married, but that doesn't mean any other change really happens within them...unless you're religious/spiritual beliefs tell you something has happened inwardly of course.
I side very strongly with hilary on this. A marriage is like a promise--as hilary said, it's performative language. It is of course possible to love someone deeply and truly and live with them and all that your whole life--but if you haven't spoken some sort of marriage vow, then it is not "a marriage."
It's like a promise: If you haven't spoken the words "I promise," then you cannot keep a promise, because no promise exists.
Or: you can tell the truth, but if you haven't said the words "I swear" than you are not under oath. Telling truth and being under oath are quite different things.
And you may say "well I'd rather have the deep true love and living together than the ceremony" and so would I, if I could only have one. But if I could have both, I'd rather have both. In the US people have risked a lot, up to their actual lives, for the right to be able to make that marriage-promise -- in the 60s when the issue was mixed-race marriages in the South, and now when the issue is gay marriage. It is more than empty ceremony, at least to many people, or it wouldn't stir such deep passions.
An apology is another example of the sort of thing that must be spoken, manifested, shown, or it doesn't work. You can be as sorry and regretful as you like deep inside, but until you say "I am so sorry, what I did was wrong, and it hurt you, and I won't do it again," you have not apologized.
An apology is another example of the sort of thing that must be spoken, manifested, shown, or it doesn't work. You can be as sorry and regretful as you like deep inside, but until you say "I am so sorry, what I did was wrong, and it hurt you, and I won't do it again," you have not apologized.
But that doesn't mean those word-actions have no meaning or no power. To lie under oath, to break a vow, to break a promise to a friend, to refuse to apologize--those are all quite serious things.
About marriage -- I think we are just talking at cross-purposes--just defining the word "marriage" differently. I don't mean by "marriage" the deeper union--I mean the formal vow.
But by definition, the word "marriage" means "we made a promise to each other to build a life together" [usually a promise made before our friends and families, but not always]. You can have a beautiful, profound life and love together without making such a promise--in fact I think some people feel like they can have a BETTER life & love without such a promise, and for all I know they're right, seriously.
I keep coming back to it being like promising. You could ask me to promise to care for you all your life, and I could say "I can't promise that," and then I could do it anyway. But then I couldn't come back and say "well I kept that promise, actually," because I didn't MAKE the promise. Which may or may not matter to you/us.
Clarity,
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