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trojan said:I see what you're saying Bruce but isn't the problem in the idea of 'unreasonable desire'. I see brad says of this line how one isn't really being kind to oneself or helping anything by seperating parts of oneself off like this,(and we do this because we think our desire is bad) its false, not natural - so I presume denials not the way forward, though I guess by 'unreasonable' you meant wishes that for some reason are not good to go through with.
Interesting your focus on 'opening up' the line talks about the heart being smothered yet I hadn't really seen the simple advice of making an opening for the fumes to get out, metaphorically. Hmm so your focus is on release.
trojan said:If you receive 52,3 what do you do about it ? The fan yao is 23,3 so that suggests to get rid of the desire that troubles you possibly ?
May I ask - what is "fan yao?"
bruce_g said:Yes. What I’m trying to convey is that, passion plays a lot of tricks, and the more you try to suppress or deny it the more strength it gathers beneath the surface, or in the belly or stove. But at the same time, if those passions are released without restraint, there’s likely to be some hell to pay. This is the perplexing condition of 52.3: to stuff your feelings or burn down the house.
The third way is to open up the vents, let a little heat out and also allow a little fresh air in. That sends the accumulated smoke right up the chimney and you can breathe again. This is an inner condition line 3 is speaking to. It doesn’t mean anything outside will necessarily change, but you will be clearheaded enough to reckon with it.
Hexagram 52 is about meditation. Keeping the back still, sllowing the energies to travel up the chakras. I think of our chakras and visualize that our root chakra - the fight or flight chakra - is the first to be energized. If we can resist taking action when we first feel agitated, that is, if something happens and our first instinct is we must react immediately but we have the strength of mind to pause, breath deeply and consider, then the energies travel up the spine to the next chakra. If we resist responding from that level, the energies can build and travel up to the next and so forth up to the crown chakra at which point we, I suppose, realize cosmic understanding of the whole energy wave and it passes right through us without our having to do a thing. But meanwhile I think the lines of the hexagram are giving us instructions as to how to handle it when the energies are building at the various chakras. I personally get 52.5 alot which often warns me that if I talk about my plans too much I'll lose my enthusiasm and nothing will ever materialize. Whereas if I can just keep quiet a little while longer then with 52.6 everything happens as it should without effort. Anyway, I see 52.3 as that very tricky chakra where one is filled with desire, but doesn't quite know yet how that desire should be directed. The third line is in a hexagram seems to always be the tricky one because it is the boundry between the lower trigram and the upper one. The unconcious and the concious mind, I think. So at this point one is at a position where they feel the physical energy of desire, but now must conciously CHOOSE how to direct that energy. In my own life right now I am filled with a desire for beaded bamboo curtain. It would be so great on my girlfriend's bedroom door. Unfortunately, I don't have the extra bucks and I don't know as my girlfriend would even like it. So what to do? I am obsessed! I think 23.3 is particularly speaking to me, "He splits with him, (He loses the neighbor above and the one below - Wilhelm)" that is, probably neither my husband nor my girlfriend, who actually happens to be my neighbor would cotton to the idea of me decorating her bedroom, especially not in Early Hippie. Yet, line 52.3 also counsels that sufficating my heart's desires is not healthy. So what to do? Well, as I say, I think this hexagram is showing us how not taking action when the influence appears at the lower chakras and directing it to a higher chakra will ultimately lead to progress. So I suggest reviewing 52.4 for a hint of what you could be watching for next, the next step. 52.4: Keeping his trunk still, no blame. I think that is saying, allow your heart to desire, but choose not to take action. At least that's how I'm going to handle it. I'll continue to feel my desire, but I'm not going to run up my credit cards. Further on up, 52.5 suggests that perhaps talking a situation over with someone or writing a letter to oneself might help resolve a problem if it's a question of where energy needs to be released, putting things in logical words would get your thinking out of the emotional right brain and into the logical left brain, but a warning not to talk too much least the energies be talked to death, and then finally the crisis passes and 52.6 is your reward. So ultimately, the way to handle 52.3 I think, as has been suggested in earlier posts here, is to acknowledge your feelings, not stifle them, but not impulsively respond to them. CHOOSE how to act on them.
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