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I've been translating Hex 23 as 'Stripping Away' in the same way you remove flesh from a fish skeleton, but this morning I'm thinking it can mean 'reduce'. Not 'withdrawing' from something (that's Hex 33) but reducing the amount of time or effort you put into something you're doing already.
Whatcha think?
Isn't the main word REMOVE here?I've been translating Hex 23 as 'Stripping Away' in the same way you REMOVE flesh from a fish skeleton, ...
Javary and Faure translate it as "Usure", which means what's used up, entropy -
I've been translating Hex 23 as 'Stripping Away' in the same way you remove flesh from a fish skeleton, but this morning I'm thinking it can mean 'reduce'. Not 'withdrawing' from something (that's Hex 33) but reducing the amount of time or effort you put into something you're doing already.
Whatcha think?
Isn't the main word REMOVE here?
I've been translating Hex 23 as 'Stripping Away' in the same way you remove flesh from a fish skeleton, but this morning I'm thinking it can mean 'reduce'. Not 'withdrawing' from something (that's Hex 33) but reducing the amount of time or effort you put into something you're doing already.
Whatcha think?
Unless your aim really is tabula rasa. Sometimes it's necessary.'Pruning' is good. Cutting back a living system. Don't go too far.
Unless your aim really is tabula rasa. Sometimes it's necessary.
According to Stephen Karcher the ideogram shows a knife and the chinese "stripping away flesh" sign. When doing so one have to be very carefull and cut to the bone but not into the bone. To me it's not a question of what to do but how to do. This is too my primary association when looking at the solid trigram Mountain above the yielding trigram Earth. The hexagram 23 construction looks unstable. One have to be very carefull not to turn over the stack of lines.I've been translating Hex 23 as 'Stripping Away' in the same way you remove flesh from a fish skeleton, but this morning I'm thinking it can mean 'reduce'. Not 'withdrawing' from something (that's Hex 33) but reducing the amount of time or effort you put into something you're doing already.
Dobro,
I think it depends on whether you're the pruner or the pruned which determines what the lines can mean. Splitting the bed can be something done intentionally, such as casting away established securities. It can also seem as though fate (or whatever) splits our resting place for us (gee, thanks, right?). But either way we are forced to draw from something greater (don't know if greater is really the right word) than what has been stripped.
I had a 23 dream a few years ago. I was in the jungle in a Viet Nam war zone setting. I crawled through the thick brush and came to a small clearing. There, members of my own army were flaying the skin off their prisoners/enemies. I was horrified and deeply disturbed at this site, and to think it was my own comrades who were doing that. But as I watched, I noticed that this was being done not out of cruelty but out of a sense of science, of wanting to know what laid beneath the skin.
The dream definitely destroyed my resting place for a few days, but it was showing me a couple of things which were soon to come: a loss of prior identity association, for one, but there were other things, which you could say were being peeled off me. In fact, there was a significant paradigm shift in my life; horrible at the outset, remarkably curious as it developed, as in the dream.
Remember the Simon and Garfunkel lyric: "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail. If I could, I surely would"? I see 23 as being a lot like that. Sometimes we're the hammer, sometimes the nail. Or, sometimes the ax - cutting people and things out of our life - and sometimes we are cut off.
One aspect, which seems not to receive the attention it's due is the benevolent side, the "giving generously to what is below" side. Hope and vision come when one needs them, not when one is resting securely in their bed. It's sorta like God pulling the blanket out from under you: it tests your faith and confidence. That virgin rose at the top symbolizes that, at least to me.
According to Stephen Karcher the ideogram shows a knife and the chinese "stripping away flesh" sign. When doing so one have to be very carefull and cut to the bone but not into the bone. To me it's not a question of what to do but how to do. This is too my primary association when looking at the solid trigram Mountain above the yielding trigram Earth. The hexagram 23 construction looks unstable. One have to be very carefull not to turn over the stack of lines.
To me the lines 1, 2 and 4 tell, what happens when cutting into the bone uch:
"Simple, I cut away everything that is not an elephant."
I've been translating Hex 23 as 'Stripping Away' in the same way you remove flesh from a fish skeleton, but this morning I'm thinking it can mean 'reduce'. Not 'withdrawing' from something (that's Hex 33) but reducing the amount of time or effort you put into something you're doing already. Whatcha think?
Lemme see if I got your question right: Are you trying to lighten your load? Are you trying to strip away all the superfluous and misleading meanings to get to the main meaning?
The uneaten fruit, as I see it, is symbolic of not relying on things which can be lost, but on what eternally lives. The fact that none of us can say exactly what that is is why it's uneaten.
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Does anyone knows what the sixth line of 23 means:
The topmost line, undivided, shows its subject as a great fruit which has not been eaten. The superior man finds the people again as a chariot carrying him. The small men by the course overthrow their own dwellings. Ikra
Lemme see if I got your question right: Are you trying to lighten your load? Are you trying to strip away all the superfluous and misleading meanings to get to the main meaning?
What do you mean? I can tell you exactly what the fruit is... it's the top nine of Stripping Away. Just take a big bite out of the middle of that solid line, and you'll find yourself in a wide open field...
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