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charly

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... Any censorship that might have existed has nothing to do with ...
Un abrazo,
Luis:

I do´nt agree too much, or maybe I know too little. Maybe you can explain something about Kargren and others or quote some of the books you said at the end.

But censorship an repression always existed ! Annihilation policies, genocide, ethnocide...

After travellers, clergymen, ethnologues TROOPS came, special task forces ... Even in China, in the past no less than in the present. Sometimes moralists and philosophers came after the troops, in order to pacify the minds, of the survivors, of course.

I believe that H.56 can be read as a sort of memorandum against WAR. The character for wanderer also means BRIGADE, GUESTS... Sometimes the guests behave like brigants, they have a too special sense of enjoying hospitality.

Not all the changes are for good:

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China forcibly relocates Uyghur women and girls for factory work

Considering that the Universal declaration of human rights and employment policy of convention prohibits the discrimination on the basis of such distinctions as sex, race or social origin, or other status on employment which includes the freedom of choice of employment and favorable conditions of work[1]. The Chinese government totally denied Uyghurs freedom of choice of employment and forcibly removing large scale numbers of Uyghurs girls to work in inland Chinese factories instead of offering jobs in East Turkistan. In order to implement this so-called “labor relocation” plan, Chinese government has organized special task forces to persuade Uyghur farmers to relocate. With such extensive propaganda and task forces, many Uyghur farmers are still not convinced, instead their daughters are taken away forcefully, contradictory to Chinese media’s claim that Uyghur youth go to inner China voluntarily.

From: http://womenmakenews.com/content/forcibly-relocation-uyghur-women-forced-labour

The guests look like this, there are also civil guests:


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From: http://saltspringnews.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19424

I wonder where are the JUNZI.

Abrazo,

Charly
 

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Historical Wanderer

Hexagram 56 for me represents travelling and taking part of life styles of foreign cultures other than your own, until your own birth place becomes just another foreign place.

Hexagram 56 is homelessness. It is being a refugee by circumstances and by freewill. This is why Wanderer contains something of both foreboding and pleasing at the same time.

Anybody driven away from their “homes” by circumstances to spend considerable time in foreign lands can relate to the threatening nature of homelessness. Yet, wanderer is the Wanderer because the time for Wandering is upon him/her and s/he is wise enough to be able to go along with foreseeable unavoidability. S/he is an oddball out in every town s/he ends up but s/he is also someone transformed in to a free and innovative spirit by the knowledge of abundance and relativity of things seen in wanderings.

In his book Heaven, Earth and Man in the Book of Changes published in 1997 on page 59-60 Helmut Wilhelm argues that the symbol for Wanderer is aligned with a historical person in the name of King Hai of the Shang. Wilhelm writes:

“The King, probably because of his actions, has been excluded from orthodox historical records. The reference to him in polite literature were not taken seriously historically, not until the several discoveries of his name on oracle bones incontrovertibly established his historical authenticity...King Hai was an unusual figure. Through his reported nomadic wanderings with herd of sheep and cattle he introduced a new element into the economic structure of Shang, whose aristocracy had previously been based essentially on hunting. King Hai is also reported to have harnessed his cattle to wagons, thus increasing the mobility of goods”.

In other words this guy was an innovative bohemian. Even the ominous lines like 56.6 are aligned with historical events according to Willhelm jr.

The bird’s nest burns up.
The wanderer laughs at first,
Then must needs lament and weep.
He loses his cow in I. Misfortune.


During one of his wanderings in the country of the Lord of I, (mentioned above) people welcomes Hai hospitably at first, but soon the relationship turns sour because King Hai behaves socially clumsy. We do not know what exactly he did to anger his hosts. But the speculation goes Hai, after drinking heavily, was flirting with one of the aristocrat ladies. This resulted in Hai loosing his cow both figuratively and literary. The cow is an animal that represent humility, and humility is what Hai loses in front of his new friends in foreign land. But he also loses his cattle which were taken away from him as a means of punishment for breaking the social codes of the land.

You could say that being a Wanderer entails unavoidable cultural clashes if one is not being mindfull:duh:

As Wilhelm concludes in page 63, “The authors of the early layers of the Book of Changes seemingly did not make a distinction between immanence and manifestation. The historical moment was not seen only as a means of perceiving or as a guide to immanent powers, but as their perfect representations”.

I agree.
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Hexagram 56 for me represents travelling and taking part of life styles of foreign cultures other than your own, until your own birth place becomes just another foreign place.

Hexagram 56 is homelessness. It is being a refugee by circumstances and by freewill. This is why Wanderer contains something of both foreboding and pleasing at the same time.

Pretty much the entire Bible can be seen as the story of refugees.
Here's my take on the 56 lines from the perspective of a touring musician/band and their "axes", etc.
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/frie...er-56-the-lines-as-a-touring-musician-analogy

-LL
 

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The Wanderer 56 - the lines as a touring musician analogy.

Thought I would add this from another post of mine.

The Wanderer 56 - the lines as a touring musician analogy.
"They call me the wanderer, yeah the wanderer...."
Using Lise's translation mostly.

6.1 "The wanderer is trivial and petty, chopping up his position and seizing calamities."
The young musician sees music as a competition, showing off his "chops", "head cutting," not collaborative or cooperative. He tries to get ahead by making others look bad in comparison, maybe trash talk etc.

6.2 "The wanderer comes to a resting-place, cherishes his belongings and acquires a boy-servant. Determination." He shacks up with his girlfriend and starts a band. He's more stable financially, happier personally, they are getting by and the band is determined to make it to the top.

6.3 "The troops burn their lodgings, lose their boy-servants. Determination danger."
They quit their day jobs, the band is ready to start touring, and go for it in a big way. Its a serious decision, some guys maybe quit the band, some give up their apartments, some of their girlfriends might break up with them over this.

6.4 "The wanderer is in a resting place and obtains his traveling-expenses. My heart is not pleased."
The band is at least breaking even. But misses his girl at home and the Holiday Inn sucks after a while.

6.5 "He shoots a pheasant, dead with one arrow. In the end praise and an assignment."
They are "killing it" every night, knocking them dead, booking more gigs, more press recognition, a recording contract...

6.6 "The bird burns its nest. The wandering people first laugh and afterwards cry. They lose their cattle at Yi. Pitfall." The band having achieved success, screws around with groupies and their wives and girlfriends leave them. Maybe they ditch their manager or the people who helped them succeed. This is going to cost them financially and emotionally.

- LL
 

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Thanks Lavalamp. It's a great memory device to link all the lines together as a story and your traveling minstrel tale suits this hexagram beautifully!
 

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