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A torturous life

tuckchang

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Hi, Dear all,

Humans are like mineral stones; they need constant and repeated forgings, and then the stone can become jade or steel. Although after people experiencing death and revival in hexagram 28 (Da Guo), seemingly ordeals never end up. The next hexagram that which they encounter is multiple perils.

Line 6 of Da Guo: wading the river (but) the water is over the head; ominous, (but) no calamity. Although it can be free from calamity but it is still trapped in the river: hexagram (29) Repeated Kan as line 1 falls into the pit of the abyss. People can’t live without hope, therefore line 2 offers a hope but advises that only small achievements can be expectable since it is still in peril. People should not have insatiable desires to acquire more as there is another peril in front, so line 3 warns people not to take action. The point is that people should seek measures to leave peril like line 4. Seemingly peril is lessened as the sandbank emerges at position 5. However in peril time sounds to be frozen forever; line 6 is put in jail for three years, which are not long but not short either; although it is ominous, the next hexagram is Li: brightness.

Hexagram 30 (Li) has multiple meanings; it is annotated as clinging, represents fire, the sun, the weapon…….and is symbolic of brightness, civilization and war. The volume I of the I Ching commences with hexagram 1 (Chien) and 2 (Kun) which create the world, and ends up with the hexagram Li: human civilization. However civilization seems that short; line 1 was just released from multiple perils, hexagram 29 (Repeated Kan), its steps are still in disorder; line 2 has already reached brilliant civilization like the sun at midday. Shortly before the end of the bottom trigram, the sun is going set; thus the old man doesn’t beat the earthenware and sing but laments over that his life will not remain much longer. Suddenly like a fire disaster, the overwhelming war destroys every thing like what line 4 suffering. Line 5 laments and sighs over all these. Luckily line 6 is assigned to carry out the sacred battle, to punish the ringleader but pardon the followers; what it pursues or it can achieve is freedom from calamity, and volume I ends up merely with freedom from calamity.

Best regards
Tuck :bows:
 

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