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Perhaps there could be a virtuous cycle: if you have sufficient understanding*to keep and rear livestock, then animal vitality can nourish and sustain*higher culture, which makes possible a more fully integrated*relationship with heaven, so you are guided to greater*insight and can exercise Great Vigour…
Yes, exactly. I default to this literal-minded approach whenever I can: if I ask for advice, the hexagram I receive will give me advice; if I ask 'what if I do the thing?' then the answer will be about what it would mean for me if I do the thing. Of course, Yi isn't obliged to give me a straight answer, but in general taking the readings this directly makes interpretation a whole lot simpler.I would have wondered, confusedly, "Constancy to what?" Buying it, since that was my question?
I've not read the blog properly yet....but am wondering what on earth the picture is and how it connects with anything in the blog ?
If you want to understand my analysis of this read Wilhelm's translation of hexagram 16 Enthusiasm's text for its second yin change in Book 1.
It's the arch of a suspension bridge. Make your own connectionsI've not read the blog properly yet....but am wondering what on earth the picture is and how it connects with anything in the blog ?
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As I understand the I Ching a changing line (or lines) supercede the hexagram text itself. So Power of the Great's second yang is not directly demonstrative of a great power. Instead its aspects are confined to its individual reading. Otherwise how else would it make sense when lines are at odds with a basic hexagram's text. So I would focus on the below (Wilhelm, for instance) to the exclusion of the hexagram's meaning.
"Nine in the second place means:
Perseverance brings good fortune.
The premise here is that the gates to success are beginning to open.
Resistance gives way and we forge ahead. This is the point at which, only too
easily, we become the prey of exuberant self-confidence. This is why the
oracle says that perseverance (i.e., perseverance in inner equilibrium, without
excessive use of power) brings good fortune."
16.2 explains the way the I Ching works. The hexagrams cast are the first trace movements of reality.
Not all of the omen applies but it answers it within:
"Six in the second place means:
Firm as a rock. Not a whole day.
Perseverance brings good fortune.
This describes a person who does not allow himself to be misled by any
illusions. While others are letting themselves be dazzled by enthusiasm, he
recognizes with perfect clarity the first signs of the time. Thus he neither
flatters those above nor neglects those beneath him; he is as firm as a rock.
When the first sign of discord appears, he knows the right moment for
withdrawing and does not delay even for a day. Perseverance in such conduct
will bring good fortune. Confucius says about this line:
To know the seeds, that is divine indeed. In his association with those above
him, the superior man does not flatter. In his association with those beneath
him, he is not arrogant. For he knows the seeds. The seeds are the first
imperceptible beginning of movement, the first trace of good fortune (or
misfortune) that shows itself. The superior man perceives the seeds and
immediately takes action. He does not wait even a whole day. In the Book of
Changes it is said: "Firm as a rock. Not a whole day. Perseverance brings
good fortune."
Firm as a rock, what need of a whole day?
The judgment can be known.
The superior man knows what is hidden and what is evident.
He knows weakness, he knows strength as well.
Hence the myriads look up to him."
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