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Lower states into higher states, solids into liquids, liquids into gasses. These are endothermic processes - they absorb energy, or take the heat away. Huan isn't a release of pent up energy because it takes energy to move up to a higher state. It's an investment, like a flower is a sacrifice to make seed. But the movement is into a larger world, specific into general, narrow into wide, parochial into cosmopolitan, stuck into liberated, mortality into that which survives us. It's often scary, because it's a big leap, hence the clinging described in some of the lines.
There are lots of similarities and differences between this and Hexagram 40. In 40 the loosening takes less energy because you are allowing things to return to the way they want to be. In 59 you might make an effort to become a generally better and more forgiving person, while in 40 you simply let go of specific resentments.
Lower states into higher states, solids into liquids, liquids into gasses. These are endothermic processes - they absorb energy, or take the heat away. Huan isn't a release of pent up energy because it takes energy to move up to a higher state. It's an investment, like a flower is a sacrifice to make seed.
I'm not a big fan yao fan (ha!), and I know it can confuse more than clarify, if an incorrect emphasis is placed on it. I think Bradford is who conceived it, or at least has more experience with it. Or perhaps named it?
Yes, that's all true. And my baby has kind of gotten out of its original cage already. Like many of the Yijing and Zhouyi dimensions, it only has a partial applicability. Think of it as a part-time algorithm. Much of the time it may have no relevance whatsoever. It was my hypothesis that the original authors used the Fan Yao dimension from time to time when they were looking for sources of imagery, and so it is just as often useful to try this out in trying to decipher the Zhouyi symbolism. I made a list of fairly obvious examples in my Dimensions chapter. I think that the Zhi Gua dimension, for which I also give the more obvious examples, has a somewhat more universal relevance.
is using the fan yao to illuminate a line a misleading strategy, when it wasn't particularly intended as such by the writers? (taking of course under consideration the possible mistakes implied in strictly applying any method)
for example, is the way I approached 59.1 and it's fan yao, misleading in that sense?
Dora
I have just learned over at Open Space that our dear friend Martin has passed on. Martin contributed much to these Memorizing threads. How appropriate that we would learn of his passing here at Hexagram 59. Dissolution. I like to think this is a message telling us his soul is crossing the Great Water, that angels have come to assist him with the strength of horses and that he is easily hastening to that which supports him.
Trojan, could you please post a link over to the Martin thread at Open Space? Thanks.
-rosada
59.3 - How best can I serve?
I wonder what this line is all about . . is it about letting go all the demands of ego trusting that truth will get through hardness in a subtle way? who are we serving and what is served if everything is slipping away?
59.3 He dissolves his self. No remorse.
(Feeling really disoriented living in someone else's home, don't know where anything goes, can't follow my usual routine...Still glad to be here.)
I'm thinking 59.3 is a sensory deprivation experience where you don't have any of the old surroundings, limits, and so you sort of lose track of yourself, at least those parts of you that were in place strictly because of the outer world. A chance to get away from it all and regroup.
59.4
#Six in the fourth place means:
He dissolves his bond with his group {he dissolves himself from his group}.
Supreme good fortune.
Dispersion leads to accumulation.
This is something that ordinary men do not think of.
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