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(The article seems to have gotten cut off in mid-sentence at the end.)
(Though I’ve yet to see the ‘rescue’ meaning in a reading – anyone?)
Quite sure that was intenti
(Am torn between "that is SPLENDID," and "but I am bad at trigrams, and I want to know about them !")
Those naughty capybaras...rolling in mud and eating trigrams...
(The article seems to have gotten cut off in mid-sentence at the end.)
Quite sure that was intenti
Repost from what I said on the blog comments:
I can’t speak to encountering ‘rescue’ for the character Ji in a reading, but the meaning of help, benefit, rescue is certainly valid and the Hanyu Da Cidian (largest Chinese dictionary, similar scale to the OED), cites the Great Treatise for an instance of Ji in the help/benefit sense:
断木为杵,掘地为臼,臼杵之利,万民以济,盖取诸小过。
They cut wood and fashioned it into pestles; they dug in the ground and formed mortars. Thus the myriads of the people received the benefit arising from the use of the pestle and mortar. The idea of this was taken, probably, from Xiao Guo (the sixty-second hexagram).
Looking at the overall body of pre-Han and Han literature the term JiJi 既济 is found mainly in the Yi as the hexagram tag. In the Zuo Tradition of the Spring and Autumn Annals it is used a few times, all uses as ‘crossed a river’, such as in Duke Xi, Year 22, where the foolish Duke Xiang of Song lets the enemy cross the river completely before attacking.
sooo said:Which reminds me of the Tibetan and Navajo sand paintings and mandalas, which always leave the final detail unfinished. J. Campbell said it was because this was something of a divine nature or mystery, which (technically) man should not be meddling with.
That's quite reminiscent of the 63-64 joke, isn't it? Though I think of that not so much as 'don't meddle' as 'this is where you live'.
The capybara is in excellent health, thank you! She just doesn't entirely see the advantage in trying to get out of the mud right this instant.
Interesting point about the perils of sand painting - though that seems to belong at the other end of the Sequence!
Clarity,
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PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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