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They simply find their optimum line of focus within the much bigger context.
Like sex, you mean?
Hey, *you* were the one talking about climbing mountains and surfing. Put 'em together and whaddaya get? Something big and wet, right?
Obvious, if you ask me.
After reading your descriptions, maybe I'm not too sorry to have missed the acid trip era....
It's interesting what you say about 55, even if I can't entirely relate to the context. My experience with 55 has been with coming closer to the larger power--the flow of the river of the tao. I find sometimes that the information given to me by the Yi Jing is so overwhelming that I break my right arm.... But still I welcome 55. I'm hoping to learn how to ride it.
Miakoda
I like em little and wet.
I think it is a great question, not silly at all, and an important question......i.e
is it better/appropriate/helpful to attempt to make things happen the way we want, OR can we simply oversee our intention and allow it to happen?
I feel the Yi is saying yes to the latter.
19.2 you and Yi are looking at this together...good question
24.3 this is a lesson you have been repeatedly faced with...(aren't we all?)
36.4 the heart of the darkness is believing we need to control, rather than oversee
55 ...abundance and true understanding result from
in general, 19 > 55 is a resounding affirmative to your question. BE the result you want ( stongly unite with your intention in overseeing this) , DO only what you feel moved to do -19.4, no reckless moves -19.3, and HAVE the desired result/fruition 55
Like sex, you mean?
I wouldn't have connected big and wet. I like em little and wet.
Yeah, whatever. Maybe Luis is similar. Anyway, wet suggests physicality to me, and big suggests state of mind.
my god, we could be talking about ummm, buying shoes... or, ummm, cooking chili?...and some guy in the crowd is sure to say
"like sex, you mean?"
MEN! that subject never fails to be a 55 for them, even when they are too old to do much about it. yuck yuck
Bruce, what a cool cool story about the gig. ROFL
Sexsexsexsexsex -- oh, sorry Dobro. You were asking something about multiple lines?
Well, thinking of 55 in terms of sex really does give me an insight into how to think of it...and since it naturally is part of the reason for this whole line of questioning in the first goddamn place, it only seems fitting.
as to the transitionals, they do seem to make sense to me...at times they're uncanny, but perhaps I'm seeing what I want to see.
I had been interpreting 19 literally as something moving toward me, more like "fate" -- but I guess it's just as much about seeing what lies ahead and moving toward it -- if it's in accordance with the time.
But that's not the same as moving toward it because it's what you want, is it? There's the rub. To me, that seems to be the difference between letting fate guide you and taking definite action to move toward a goal of your choosing. Believe me, I'd love to grab those reins and charge full speed ahead, but even without the Yi I can see that this is not the time for that in this particular situation.
Sounds like a clear overview, which guides your fate.
See - that sounds a lot wiser, and less cranky too!
In the first place, I have never once heard this method touted as an ultimate solution to the problem of multiple lines - only as something to try in addition to reading all the changing Yao Ci (line texts) in the Ben Gua (original hexagram). This is only one of many methods (that include even the Yilin, with a separate text for every possibility). And at least the Ben and Zhi Gua are the same as with other methods.
It really doesn't make many assumptions, and it only uses concepts that were around from the beginning (Early Zhou through the Zuozhuan texts). It doesn't draw upon anything that makes its first appearance in the Yinyang Jia (yinyang school), the Ten Wings, the Han Yiweishu (apocrypha) or the Xiangshu Jia (Image and Number School.
It makes only these assumptions:
1) That change happens from bottom to top, from zhen to hui, the same way that hexagrams progress in their construction and in the evolution of their analogies. But certainly the hexagram with all its changing lines may change in only a moment - the steps may be taken all at once. Then again, the change may only be in the direction of the Zhi Gua, but never go all the way. It might only be referring to the finger and not the moon.
2) That the changing line texts were written to represent the simple change of that particular line, that changes the original into a hexagram that is only one line apart. It is here, along this simple track, that the line text is most meaningful and most easily understood.
3) That multiple lines will usually introduce a high degree of ambivalence and ambiguity into the reading, and the conflicting meanings fight each other for dominance on the way to resolution. Transitional hexagrams avoid this problem entirely and yet get to the same outcome.
Bruce, maybe...I wonder, after reading this, if it's not as clear as I've been thinking -- that is, if I'm being timid or not open enough to the idea that there's a way that the outcome COULD be positive. I've been concentrating on the possible negative consequences, maybe I've brainwashed myself a bit?
I don't want my fate to be guided by my limited imagination.
what is YMMV?
Hey Bruce, didn't mean to imply that imagination per se is limited -- anything but. Just realizing that in this particular situation I might not be casting a wide enough net for possibilities -- that my own imagination in this case might not be working hard enough.
I don't want to miss the silver lining behind the dark cloud, even when "common sense" is telling me to watch out for the lightning, you know?
Taking action to move toward my desire could involve risk and continuing emotional entanglement in a situation that has already been stagnant and painful for some time.
...
I've been interpreting that 43.5 as actively choosing to give up on this goal and move in another direction to improve my life.
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