47.3.5 Possibilities of success at school –Back to former career

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Hexagram 47.3.5
Possibilities of success at school –Back to former career
After near two decades practically away from my career, I find it financially necessary to fully go back to it. Even though I used to be really good at what I did, it was not my passion; Went back to school to refresh my resume and skills. However, things I used to find simple before, are hard to remember now and after being a straight A student, I find it hard to keep up with my classes. My mind seems to be in continuous oblivion.

I Inquired the I Ching for insight on the possibilities for success at school and I got 47.3.5. --This is exactly how I feel; Confined… Still I do not know how to interpret this. Am I wasting my time? I do not see any other way to survive in the “material” world, but going back to my original studies which provided me with good pay when I first graduated (even though it was not my choice of a career).

The design of my life resembles a big “confinement,” and I wonder if any of you, can tell me if the I Ching is suggesting that there could be a way for liberation other than my 'former career.'

I would really appreciate your input on this tortured mind of mine.

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[pocossin]

Is success at school possible?
47.3.5 > 32

You are bound by school because your heart is not in it, and that is the reason for your suffering. It is a defeat for you to be compelled to give up your ideal career and return to your practical career. Resentment won't further your necessary studies. You can escape oppression by incorporating aspects of your ideal career into your material career. There are graphic, spiritual, literary aspects -- whatever your flavor -- in any career. Emphasize them, and you will roll away the stones and find a vitality in what necessity compels you to do.

 

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47.3.5

Dear Pocossin,

I just realized that you answered my post; thank you. However, I am not only bound by school, but by a series of changes that has brought my life back to ground Zero. I really have to refresh my resume and the only career that ever paid my bills. I have been left with nothing at this point other than student loans to be able to sustain everything around me.

I was not allowed to follow my passion (perhaps with good cause) and now I do not know how to emphasize the creative aspects to “spiritually” roll away the stones and find vitality on the necessities of today. Perhaps the stress is making me feel insecure and it feels like a “life-death” situation that obstructs my creativity and/or objectivity (in just about every aspect of my decisions and endeavors). I do not how to turn around the positive and more secure person I used to be.

I am really lost,

Please help

 

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11. 2.5>63 Image of Priest's mind set about me

Perhaps it would be helpful to know that by inquiring in the view from a Catholic Priest I saw regarding my situation I got Hexagram 11. 2.5>63. Still, I am lost’ I walked out of the Priest’s presence when I knew he was just patronizing me and “not it tune with me.”

I was trying to find some answers by going back to my roots, but he was not very receptive, so this broke my heart and told him that it was a mistake for me to try to find answers through him

 

[pocossin]

If you are reduced to incurring debt to pay your way, you are in a bind, but you aren't at a 'ground Zero', which connotes a place of destruction. Nor have you returned to exactly where you were. You have two decades of experiences that should help you now. If you see your studies through, assuming the market for your skills is still good, you will again have the freedom of the employed, so there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Thunder and wind: the image of Duration.
Thus the superior man stands firm
And does not change his direction.

Everything connects to everything else. Somehow your ideal life connects to your current studies. Find that connection through meditation, and you will be motivated to do well. If there is a zen (or dao) of motorcycle maintainance, there is a zen of any profession.

 

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47.3.5 Possibilities of success at school –Back to former career

Hi Pocossin,

Thank you for your insight.

I do understand If I were able to heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for if my mind cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. Perhaps the question should be placed not in the capacity for me to endure, but if I am pursuing the right path.

Graham Harman, Time, Space, Essence, and Eidos: A New Theory of Causation four tensions that can be identified as Time, Space, Essence, and Eidos. Time and space can no longer be left as peerless dimensions of the cosmos. Instead, they are shown to arise from the tensions between things and their qualities. And for this reason they are joined by essence (in the classical sense of the term) and Eidos (in Husserl’s sense, not Plato’s) as two out of four basic features of the fabric of the world, and the widely known highlights of this philosophy: Aristotle’s four causes, the neo-Platonic doctrine of emanation, the divine intervention found in Islamic and French occasionalism, Hume’s skeptical doubts about causation along with Kant’s half-hearted solution. While these well-known theories cannot be considered in depth in what follows, their spirit will be present in what it is said.

"Desperate times call for desperate measures,” but I wonder if the “desperate measures” can lead to even more Causation for Tension.

Wilhelm translation:
A man permits himself to be oppressed by stone,
And leans on thorns and thistles
He enters the house and does not see his wife.
Misfortune
This shows a man who is restless and indecisive in times of adversity. At first he wants to push ahead, and then he encounters obstructions that, it is true, mean oppression only when recklessly dealt with. He butts his head against a wall and in consequence feels himself oppressed by the wall. Then he leans on things that have in themselves no stability and that are merely a hazard for him who leans on them. Thereupon he turns back irresolutely and retires into his house, only to find, as a fresh disappointment, that his wife is not there. Confucius says about this line:
If a man permits himself to be oppressed by something that ought not to oppress him, his name will certainly be disgraced. If he leans on things upon which one cannot lean, his life will certainly be endangered. For him who is in disgrace and danger, the hour of death draws near; how can he then still see his wife?

This whole thing sounds so profoundly scary that leads me to a vicious circle “restless and indecisive;” it sounds just like I feel. I do overcome this through meditation, but keep on returning to analyze every step to make sure I am making the wisest choice...

Am I misinterpreting everything?

Some enlightenment please

Thanks again,

 

[reinaldo]

Richmond:
47.3: "here we are exhausted by battling against what is [truth], not accepting our circumstances, and so pain ourselves unnecessarily.

47.5: "we are in opposition to a greater truth, our truth is too small and when we cease our attachment to it joy, flow, will return"

 

[pocossin]

Who am I talking to? Am I talking to you or to your unhappiness? Line 47.3 says, "A man permits himself to be oppressed . . . " and that is the crux of the matter. You have the capacity to excel in your studies but are being defeated by a dark mood. Have you considered an antidepressant? Just temporarily. Anyway, I think you would find water holes in the seemingly barren wasteland of your studies if you searched for them. We have a material being and must live in a material world, and it is no defeat to recognize material needs.

 

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47.3.5 Possibilities of success at school

No, you are not talking to my “unhappiness.” Happiness is a very relative concept.
For me, it is the understanding and cultivating of internal values and truism that brings solidarity and tranquility—although… you might have something there… I have to rethink this one… (as I face my changing reality)—Nonetheless, I think you are talking to the scared part of me and I do not mean the “DEFEATED” part; I do not usually give up, and I am not about to start anytime soon. One thing you should know: I have worked all my life. Except that in the latter years it hasn’t been as lucrative, but it has been satisfying.

With respect to the “antidepressant;” you have to take my word for it, it will not work even temporarily! I need clarity as oppose to the murkiness of any kind of drug (even if it is prescribed). To have ambivalence when finding one’s world falling apart; being able to recognize it and stand up to it instead of white washing it or denying it to avoid the pain, I believe is healthier. Even though I am used to seeing the world in a more abstract way, you are right, “We have a material being and must live in a material world”. I am just trying to understand the meaning of the IC while I see things evolving in a completely new and strange way for me, in a foreign place, far away from support. Yea, it does not appear too bright. Does it?

But certainly, you do give me a lot to think about; there is a lot of positive I could take advantage of if I do not get carried away by the negativism of the situation.

Thanks, Pocossin

 

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47.3.5 Possibilities of success

Richmond:
47.3: "here we are exhausted by battling against what is [truth], not accepting our circumstances, and so pain ourselves unnecessarily.

47.5: "we are in opposition to a greater truth, our truth is too small and when we cease our attachment to it joy, flow, will return"

Hi Reinaldo,

I see there are many more truths for me to accept and attachments to cease from; it has to be the ignoramus in me that is blinding my path. I must find the way to cease and desist to find my way back home.