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Why any line has the text that it has?But WHY is there danger? Why this line, 21.5, and not *every* line in the Yi?
Why any line has the text that it has?
Remember, the "position" of the lines is not part of the Zhou Yi, but the Wings; wich you claim to discard; don't you?For example, you sort of expect 14.5 and 14.6 to be pretty positive because of the nature of the hexagram combined with their position in it, right?
Why? Because line 2 is central and line 3 is transitional? That is not Zhou Yi but, again, confucionist and neo-confucionist hermeneutics.Another example: it's no surprise at all that 7.2 is more auspicious than 7.3, right?
Really??? Then why some times you have good hexagram and good line, morphing the situation into bad hexagram? Or the other way around: bad line wich leads to better hexagram. Some time ago, you asked about this yourself. You see this as a contradiction; but it is only a mystery if you assume that there is ONE SYSTEMC RATIONALITY behind.And with a line like 39.6, you expect it to be good because it morphs the situation into the more auspicious Hex 53, not to mention the fact that the fan yao, 53.6, is really sweet.
In the first place, yin/yang as "nature" of the lines is a terminology that doesn't belongs to the Zhou Yi; neither to the Yijing. In the Yijing, the lines are soft or firm.And you just KNOW that 44.1's gonna be problematic even before you read the actual text - it's that sneaky little single yin right at the bottom of the whole insinuating, seductive hexagram.
Well.. if your ego really needed to make this statement, I have not problem at all. But its funny to read this coming from the mayor anti-ego preacher around the forum. At least, I DO recognize that I have an ego.. and don't attempt (neither suggest to others) to be "pure" from it.So I asked to see if anybody else understands it better than me. But I guess you don't lol.
Now, if you are ready to accept confucionist hermeneutics (position):
Line 5 of hexagram 21 is the top line of the upper nuclear trigram (lines 3-4-5): WATER wich is traditionaly understood as DANGER (oh, surprising discovering).
Again, see Bradford work about this.I was basing my comments on the fact that position 2, 5 and 6 *is* often auspicious - it's an observation that anybody will notice if they use the Yi a lot.
BTW.. forgive my bad english; but I don't understand the expression "ill-will" What does it means?
Based on statistical data, there is no enough evidence to say that the position of the lines influences it's auspicious/unauspicious text attached.?
This is more clear in line 6, where some would said that most of cases this line is a warning; for example.
Lines 2 and 5 seems to be more suitables for this argument; but what do you do with position in line 3 (one of your examples)?
Anyway, you haven't adreessed the main point from my first comment:
1.- do you believe there is a systemic rationality behind the work to attach some text to some line?
Ergo, is there a "WHY" (reason) for one certain line to have one certain text?
BTW.. forgive my bad english
So
You don't believe there is a systematic rationale behind the work to attach some text to some line, and therefore you do believe that there is a "WHY" (reason) for one certain line to have one certain text.....
I can't go any further with this logic.
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Clarity,
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