About 49.5

[el_2]

Hi all

A couple of days ago I had an insight about this line I'd like to share and ask what other people think about it. I may be wrong.

To cite the text in W/B:
"The great man changes like a tiger. Even before he consults the oracle, he is believed".

I received this line once, a couple of months ago and from time to time I think about what it means. Now, the other day as I was thinking over a situation (not relevant to the situation for which I got 49.5), I thought to myself, "this a hexagram 43 situation". If I remember correctly some words of the Judgement for 43 suddenly came to mind. In general, it seems that from time to time, in various occasions in my life, little snippets of the Yi cross my mind. I'm sure this happens eventually, hopefully with ever-increasing clarity, to everyone who is studying the Book of Changes. So, perhaps sometimes you don't need to ask the oracle a question because you see things from another perspective (from the oracle's perspective) and you recognize what the situation is and the right course of action, etc. In this way, you "become the oracle".

Could this be one aspect of 49.5? I'm not claiming that this is an original idea but I came to it myself in the process I just described.

Would anyone like to commend on this?

el_2

 

[rosada]

Hi el_2,
Yes, I think you could see a sense of 49.5 meaning, "Be the change you would like to see in others."

I think your experience of recognizing a hexagram being played out in the real life drama you see going on around you is one of the very real benefits of knowing the IC. A viewer's expectations have an effect on that which is viewed. Thus if you know the lines and recognize the situation you can have an improving effect simply by knowing what the Superior Man would expect and watch for.

 

[el_2]

So far I'm at the recognizing a situation stage. As for improving, I'm not sure about it. But it's good to know that as my knowledge of the Yi gets deeper I will be able to actually diagnose situations and patterns of behavior etc. Not always perhaps, but still...

The Yi is getting more interesting in ways I hadn't anticipated.

el_2

 

[meng]

So far I'm at the recognizing a situation stage. As for improving, I'm not sure about it. But it's good to know that as my knowledge of the Yi gets deeper I will be able to actually diagnose situations and patterns of behavior etc. Not always perhaps, but still...

The Yi is getting more interesting in ways I hadn't anticipated.

el_2

I relate to what you're saying. My biggest thrill with the Yi is seeing "it" going on all around me, re-cognizing the changes as they play out in nature and lives of people. It helps me to gain an observer's view of my life, and of life in general (20 lines 5 and 6), and it makes me more open to receiving (2) and creating (1). Ideally (16), nothing is which isn't numbered (60) in the Yi (19) and in nature (22). I'm kidding of course (4). Or, am I? (3). See? (30) ...entire dialogues can be exchanged this way (58).

 

[el_2]

I'm not there yet meng. Your posting made me laugh.

Another aspect of this, I think, is when you recognize situations or aspects of situations in a way they enhance your understanding of the Yi. Something like, "Oh, this is what Hex 61 is about", things like that.

el_2