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rosada said:Interesting this hexagram should come up. Just Friday i was discussing the I Ching with my father who is a brilliant math proffessor. i was trying to interest him in the I Ching and he was asking all sorts of weird (to me) questions like, "Why 64 hexagrams? Would it work just as well with 63? " Finally I just consulted IC, asking "How does the I ching work?" I received 36.6 changing to 22. I read this to mean the I Ching works by quieting the mind, and when the mind becomes quiet the grace of God is revealed.
autumn said:So, the juxtaposition of 22 and 36 (just the hexagrams, not the lines) is a light/dark juxtaposition if you look at it this way. 22 would be the lantern on a camping trip as you walk to the outhouse. Drawing attention and perspective to the limited circle of light falling on one's path. 36 would be scrolls of Greek and Latin and their corresponding illuminating knowledge hidden within the cloak of a monk as he conforms to outer society. Or, a great perspective that cannot be shared.
But why does one become the other? Why, once the great idea has climbed to the highest height and fallen to earth (Animal Farm, the Pigs?) does 22 result? Why, once naturalness of form has superseded the original perspective, does 36 result?
And why the connection with pain and hexagram 36? Does the 'great perspective' burn within and cause pain?
listener said:Philippa,
Just curious...you have never experienced a "dark night of the soul?" I think it is a phenomenon far removed from 'clinical depression' although it could cause what is known as clinical depression. (And what a shame, because a label is only a label, and doesnt even begin to touch upon what the very personal and soulful reasons for a person's 'dark night' may be)
listener said:The 'fan yao" is not part of the answer, or is it?
And I still find it interesting and relevant. D.This thread is 13 years old.
Interesting this hexagram should come up. Just Friday i was discussing the I Ching with my father who is a brilliant math proffessor. i was trying to interest him in the I Ching and he was asking all sorts of weird (to me) questions like, "Why 64 hexagrams? Would it work just as well with 63? " Finally I just consulted IC, asking "How does the I ching work?" I received 36.6 changing to 22. I read this to mean the I Ching works by quieting the mind, and when the mind becomes quiet the grace of God is revealed.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).