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I wonder what's wrong with this post that is got zero answers. Maybe I should make different threads?
I hadn't seen your post despite checking the forum several times a day. Maybe there has been some technical issue preventing it from being visible until you replied. Some posts receive no replies BTW. It happens. Your case seems different however.I wonder what's wrong with this post that is got zero answers. Maybe I should make different threads?
I'm currently in a post-breakup crisis
No surprise you repeatedly received 63: the relationship is over for you. How intelligent the I Ching is!I've just made a decision to give up on trying to repair the relationship with my ex.
Line 3:"The emperor Kao Tsung chastised the barbarian country and conquered it in three years. The inferior man should no longer be employed." "Conquer your demons -- the integration of unbalanced forces is a long and exhausting process."-- What is the most serious mistake of my past I have to work on now?
-- 63.3.6 -> 42 (Increase)
You overeat to "appease" yourself (Hex 11)...-- Why do I overeat these days?
-- 63.2.5 -> 11
Line 4: "Amidst the fine silk are ragged garments -- be cautious throughout the livelong day!" "Something valuable is threatened -- extreme care is called for." Take care of yourself. Don't give in. Your situation will "radically change" (Hex 49)- the heartbreak being over, everything will be fine again.-- What's the best way to look at this stuff-passing process?
-- 63.4 -> 49
Line 3:"The emperor Kao Tsung chastised the barbarian country and conquered it in three years. The inferior man should no longer be employed." "Conquer your demons
Bravo!Not only the meaning of my readings is much more clearer to me but also I've got a lesson of how to connect hexagrams, lines and different readings into one intergrated landscape.
I cited the "Conquer your demons ..." line from James DeKorne website. It has a psychological approach: here the "internal" demons refer to the unbalanced forces not being (yet) integrated in the psyche; so considered outsiders. In the OP's case, the chaos is caused by the external pressure to a large extent, still affects the internal life.For what it is worth,
Kao Tsung wasn't conquering his own demons. He was conquering other people(s) (demons).
This is an important distinction to recognize about the line.
In 35.6 one may say they are conquering or chastising 'their home town', but not in 63.3
Editor: In psychological terms, the Demon region is the unconscious psyche, and no new synthesis can take place therein until all of its autonomous complexes have been pacified and integrated. The will of the ego is the last line of defense against their constant pressure. Only one who has undertaken the Work can truly appreciate how exhausting it is -- a fact made more ominous by the realization that one can win most of the battles and still lose the war. "Inferior men should not be employed" means that it is a task not to be lightly undertaken by anyone.
I did not exactly say that.taking an answer as to do with one's internal landscape is not unique to James de Korne - we've all been doing it for decades so I can't see how you can categorically say an answer will always manifest externally as you say 63.3 will.
Possibly, in some situations, of course.I think line 3 can be about tackling very long term issues which might be psychological or might not be.
crossed posts - think people go there for the translations because he has all the translations there, well a good few of them.
For me, the point of visiting DeKorne website is the Encyclopedia type of pages he has made where you can find the words of several translators & commentators. It's very helpful to me. And I relate to some of them more than others. As for the words of DeKorne himself, I sometimes use them.DeKorne is a person one may refer to in American lingo, as a "Head".
That is someone who uses a lot of hard drugs.
As in take these pills to 'feed' your 'head'.
But, without fail. he always goes somewhere.... fluffy.. with it.He does say 'in psychological terms' so he isn't claiming it's always psychological
But, without fail. he always goes somewhere.... fluffy.. with it.
I haven't found any comments of his that are as mundane as an answer can certainly be.
So he is indeed the white bunny of the Yi world but he cannot be as bad as Carol Anthony who makes every single answer mean that one must crush one's ego and subdue one's inferiors - even if one has asked something as mild as 'what about this garage ?' still even those commentaries apply sometimes
I greatly admire Tuck Chang's work. He has gone into a lot of detail to describe a large number of traditional I Ching aspects. His work on the positioning and inter-relations between the lines is superb and one of a kind.What do you think of how lines are commented on http://iching123.com?
When you're fighting a long difficult war, obviously a lot of human resources are needed. Some people are employed during the war, as they have some usefulness in the overall strategy. However, when the war is over, those people are not worthy enough to be employed full-time or permanently. So, in more mundane terms, when we have fought a lot to achieve something, we should not stick around with people of lower worth (even if they gave a small contribution in the past), because they will undermine what we have accomplished.As for 63.3, there is this other aspect in the text of like which I don't get at all: "The villain should not be employed". It's after the war is over and tha land of demons is conquered. It's mentioned as being about a colonial policy on some resources... It sounds like the overall conclusion, a lesson one has to learn after an exausting war with demons (internal or external).
63.6 shows that because of the mistake of employing an inferior, the situation was too much for you to handle in the end. 42 is benefit, so think about it. Who benefitted the most from this relationship? Was it worth it, for you, to employ an inferior and end up feeling like drowning? Was it worth ending up in hospital because of it? Of course only you can answer that question, but I would say that if we asked a random person in the street "would you like a love story which would end up with you in hospital?", chances are they would say no. As a future lesson, if you go back to this guy (or to any other inferior guy), you now know the result: drowning and benefit (obviously not your benefit).
Well, I'd say me getting to a hospital as a result of a heartbreak is my responsibility, not his. I could commit a suicide, it wouldn't make him an utter villain whose actions caused a girl's death
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