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- could play well into line 1's 'readiness but ulterior purpose unsettles'. For example, when someone is trying to sell me on something, the inspirational attempt fails because it was an attempt. In Fu there is no attempting. "Do or do not, there is no try." ~ YodaA quality which is essential for inspiring others
Bruce:LiSe's reference to Harmen's Fu -
- could play well into line 1's 'readiness but ulterior purpose unsettles'. For example, when someone is trying to sell me on something, the inspirational attempt fails because it was an attempt. In Fu there is no attempting. "Do or do not, there is no try." ~ Yoda
... Let us turn to insects.
The ant is extraordinarily sensitive to atmospheric conditions and is esteemed as a weather-prophet all over the world... The modern Chinese peasant of course has his ant-proverbs. The usual Chinese word for the ant ... does not occur in the Changes.
About twenty times, however, we find the character 孚 [FU], which is said to mean 'sincere'. In almost every case, the context requires a far more concrete, substantival meaning. Moreover moral meanings, such as upright, just, sincere, etc., come late into a language. Thus the Greek dike means originally not justice, but merely 'what is customary.' 'Moral' too has etymologically the same meaning. 'Virtue' means potential power, not virtuous conduct in the moral sense.
'Sincere' cannot have been the original meaning of 孚 [FU]. In the Oracle Bones it seems generally to stand for 俘 [FU] 'prisoner'.
A possible semantic history of the word is as follows:
{1) the creature which carries its young (i. e. eggs) in its claws;
(2) true, reliable (because of the reliable character of the ant's weather prophecies); (3) a guarantee of reliability, a hostage;
(4) any captive of war;
(5) the moral meaning 'sincere' is a derivative of (2).
This is mere speculation...
THE BOOK OF CHANGES BY ARTHUR WALEY
From Steve Marshal´s page
http://www.biroco.com/yijing/waley.pdf
Your are speaking like an oracle or maybe asking like a Sphinx.
>>>>Is there such a thing as truth, absolute truth ? Some people say that the truth is relative. My truth is Me , the perception I have about matter according to all the things makes me, and likewise your truth is You and every makes you.
When Meng post that information about dolphins, I googled and found that a scientist that spend many years studying dolphins he couldn’t believe the new finding. He was surprised by the new facts. So the truth till then , was a kind of as-far-as-I-know truth.
Perhaps “secret designs” is something as Trojan said. All those things that stand between the truth we can see and the actual truth. All the things that create a veil, illusion, misconception, expectations, conditions.
Behind what we say “this is it” might be a “ this is not it”. I have a reading about a very important matter and I’m a bit lost because I have lay on the table all the possible meanings. I believe that some assumption of that this reading wants to tell me are right and some others not. But in order to reach to the “true” answer I have to doubt for everything I have write. Not doubt as mistrust but as to question. Delay execution.
The fan yao of 61.1 is 59, dissolve. How can we achieve that if not by doubting, questioning if what we see is what actually is or if it is an illusion?
Which is the path towards inner truth , in your opinion. If there is a path…Well, must be a path, to go inside that egg and see if there is a germ.
Would like to hear your opinions.
Maria
A Crane totem entering your life could signal recovery of what was lost to you.
It could well be. I'm also thinking about Peter Pan and The Lost Boys here. Or perhaps even the biblical "That which was lost is found"Wonder if the western myth of a baby arriving carried by a crane is related to that?
I'd dare go so far as to say, the book of changes could be subtitled the 'book of potentials, conveyed through hints'.
Many cultures
believe that cranes will sometimes carry small birds on
their backs to help them on their long migrations. Thus
the Siberian Tartars believed that cranes transport
corncrakes southward, and Egyptians believed that
both cranes and storks carry small birds across the
Mediterranean. Similarly, the Crow Indians of Montana
believed that the sandhill crane carries a small bird, the
napzte-shu-utl, or "crane's back," on its back. This
small bird regularly accompanies the crane, and flutters
up to settle on the bird's back when it takes off. At this
time the bird utters a chattering whistle, which is the
basis for the Crow warriors' blowing a small bone
whistle when they go riding off to battle (Ingersoll,
1923).
Dora:... should probably leave my books aside for a while
the works of Madoz and Borges have been some of my favorites for years...
... maybe hope lies locked up so that we can hope to release it -maybe hope survives only if kept as a seed and a promise for the future . .
...
Dear Dora:... 'Garden' is one of my favorites ...
One autumn day, very long ago, the cranes were preparing to go southward. As they were gathered in the great flock they saw a beautiful young woman standing alone near the village.
Admiring hergreatly, the cranes gathered about, and lifting her on their widespread wings, bore her far up in the air and away.
While the clanes were taking her up they circled below her so closely that she c.ould not fall, and their loud, hoarse cries drowned out her calls for help, so she was carried away and never seen again.
Ever since that time the cranes always circle about in autumn, uttering their loud cries while preparing to fly southward, as they didat that time. (Nelson, 1896-97)
From: Cranes in Myth and Legend by P.A.johndgard
(at the document whose link you posted)
...purely relative truth will not work. It ends in codependence.... some central truth must be presumed, even if it's fiction.
61.2 is a mother calling to its young. I wonder if 61.3 could be seen to be two siblings? I think the inner truth that exists between two sister's who love each other and share the same bedroom for years are even a better example of this inner twining than even two lovers.
The natural flow of this tao is halted if the giving out is withheld -the tao requires that we do not interfere with the life flow, we simply take part. When we do not take part there is some purpose, a desire to make something better or worse, and for these purposes we push reality this way and that.
Image:
He meets another.
He beats a drum
starting and stopping.
He weeps and sings alternately.
The 'other' that we meet creates polarity and the world of pendulum swinging from one pole to the other. When we do not remain centred but project our self into attitudes this image symbolizes the experience we have.
I Ching Oracle
He does not now act out on an individual path, being aware of the one-sided nature of this. He sees polarities as equally valid and uses first one side of the coin then the other. He no longer hides half, or fears the other
Language of the Lines
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