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Thanks Liselle. One time Hilary told me about using Sear's site, but I've never really tried it ... so your using it here is a good introduction.Hilary often suggests looking things up on Richard Sears' site, which I am not good at, but this might be his page on yuan1: https://hanziyuan.net/#淵. And here's perhaps the page on kan3: https://hanziyuan.net/#坎
Sorry. My Greek is not very good! I mean, when you look up a word on Sear's site - as you did twice above - the web page will show oracle, bronze, and seal script characters that are related to the word you were asking about. They have titles or 'tags' with them like 'S09234' but there's no further information about these characters that I can find. I am wondering how I can find more information about them - like their meaning, root, etc.I'm sorry, Freedda, you may as well be speaking Greek to me for most of that.
Yes! I just found it interesting to see the related and probably earlier characters and I wanted to learn more about this. With Kan, for example (as I mentioned above), a few of the related figures look like the image of an animal in a trap, but others I didn't really understand, so I wanted to delve more into these ........ Well - I ignore all that, haha, because I have no idea what it is. The only thing I do is look around the page for words in English. This is the sort of thing I meant when I said I'm not sure I'm doing it right .... I'd guess Sears probably figures his target audience knows what they're doing. (People like us are probably not his target audience.)
*scavenges for notes* - :bows:Consider that the fourth position is that of the guide or teacher but here at hexagram 1 everything is being newly created, there is no previous experience or teacher.. All the person can do is to prepare as best they can - 1.3 - and then with a leap of faith, step off the edge sans any guide and trust they'll be able to fly.
I use a picture of Dumbo the elephant sailing through the air holding tight to his magic feather to illustrate the feeling here.
Anyway, whether one goes with "chasm" or "abyss" the point is that this line describes a situation where there are no rules or precedents to guide us, but this newness in itself does not necessarily make it a hostile situation - thus the dancing! - it's more like a "You don't know what you can do until you do it" moment.
Hi, David:Line 1.4 reads:
Someone dancing in the abyss. No mistake. ... or ......
Probably leaping from an abyss. No fault.... or ...
Somehow to dance across the deep. With no mistakes.
(Different interpretations have the dance happening in, across, above, or leaping from the abyss.)
I'm wondering, is there a particular reason or significance why Yuan was used here in this line, instead of Kan? And is this difference important or not?
Best, D.
Yes they do!!Charly (3) In connection with the imagery of H.1 there is also the custom of the Chinese Alligators, known as Dragons, able to endure much time resting in the bottom of the ponds, although they surely don't jump up to the sky.
Hi, LiSe:Yes they do!!
Dragons/alligators flying
Source: Li Se's «Yi Jing, Oracle of the Moon»
Link: https://www.yijing.nl/YiMages/01-dragons-2.html
Ch.Who Was Liu Bang?
Liu Bang was born into a peasant family in Pei County ... which was then part of the conquered state of Chu. When Liu Bang became emperor, legendary tales about his origins were created, so as to provide legitimacy to his rule ...
One of these myths, for example, tells of how Liu Bang was conceived. In this tale, his mother was caught in a storm and sought shelter under a bridge ... When her husband came to her ... he saw a dragon beside her.
Liu Bang is said to have been conceived shortly after this supernatural incident.
Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/his...iu-bang-peasant-rebel-chinese-emperor-0010018
Hi, LiSe:
I never believed that Chinese alligators would climb to heaven!
Of course, now, reading your link, I understand that it's possible...
Not every carp could do it, only the One Outstanding Carp...
With your response, along with others ...I'm wondering, is there a particular reason or significance why Yuan was used here in this line, instead of Kan? And is this difference important or not?
Maybe too, to simply face your fear and go for it.I also think the fear ... has to do with 1.4: if you have fear, you cannot dance in the abyss. You need complete freedom of fears, doubts, anything which holds you back if you want to do something 'impossible' .... (and) If you get 1.4, I think it tells you to 'go for it', whatever you ask about, without any second thought.
Earth's first cellular life probably arose in vats of warm, slimy mud fed by volcanically heated steam—and not in primordial oceans, scientists say.
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Consider that this is still the dragon's Gua. Once he manages to grip the wind, the abyss is his element. But until then it's scary even to him.
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