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‘Someone leaping in the abyss.
No mistake.’
Hexagram 1, line 4
‘Dragon underwater – don’t act.’
‘Dragon flying in heaven.
Fruitful to see great people.’
‘Dragon underwater – don’t act.’
‘See the dragon in the fields.
Fruitful to see great people.’
‘Someone leaping in the abyss.
No mistake.’
As clouds descend low in the mountains it is perhaps easy to enter into the spirit of the occasion, particularly as the dragon is said to possess the power of making itself invisible when it leaves the water to mae its ascent. Those intoxicated by wine may swear they saw a claw, or the tip of the tail, entering a cloud.
S.J. Marshall, The Mandate of Heaven
The hawk flies up to heaven, the fishes leap in the deep.
‘The true gentleman cultivates inner strength, fulfils his task. He tunes Self to the moment, and thus incurs no harm.’
Translation by John Minford
Here we reach the upper limit of what pertains to man in the hexagram. Advance on level ground is no longer possible. In order to advance, a man must dare to relinquish his foothold on earth and soar into realms of uncharted space and utter solitude. Here the individual is free – precisely because of the possibilities inherent in the position. Each man must determine his own fate.
Wilhelm/Baynes
Will the dragon take flight? For now, there is the dance along the border between ‘just enough’ and ‘not quite there’, stretching your wings and playing with vast possibilities. There’s no shortage of creative drive and imagination, but it’s not clear what will prove attainable.
(from my book)
Fearlessness can accomplish miracles. As soon as a stuntman feels fear, he is in danger. Fearlessness is the core of the hero. Hex.9.4 tells you to forget yourself (and any fear) for the sake of your responsibilities. Hex.1.4 is about what fearlessness accomplishes.
LiSe
Who is jumping? Is it man or dragon or both? The ideogram yue shows a foot, a bird, and feathers. This is a shamanistic picture of leaping about and dancing, a ritual to promote creativity. The abyss ideogram, yuan, is fashioned from the symbols for water and vortex, the whirlpool of constant, overwhelming phenomena. The recipient of this line must jump free of the whirlpool of everyday life.
Wu Jing Nuan, Yijing
The shaman drinks his brew, spreads his feathers, steps to the edge of the known, to dance into higher realms. The brave young dragon stands at the edge of the cliff, facing this rite of passage one way, his white-knuckled talons scarring the rocks, preparing to leap from aerial theory to practice, now two different things at long last. To gain the abyss will mean to let go of that clawhold completely. The wind will be no easy thing to take hold of, until reaching dangerous speeds. But here is the only control to be gained, the wind becomes the master: the only conquest comes from obeying the facts. No wavering will lift this beast, much less beast and his baggage, so lightening up should help. And never miss half the point by failing to look down. There can be no half measures here, in fact, as there are no real dragons in theory.
Bradford Hatcher
SkydivingDragons.org
Unaccountably, this website doesn’t exist. This is an oversight. Someone please build it.SkydivingDragons.org
2. Look for a role model. Where did that dragon come from appearing in the field as if he fell from the sky?
'Fruitful to see great people'?Why do you think there's anything about a role model here ?
the Dragon metaphor refers to powerful people in Yi.
Kings, great people, masters, nobility are called dragon in ancient China, remember Bruce Lee anyone?
The thing is I don't believe in great people, masters, mature people or nobility. I think everyone is a dick once you get to know them
The dragon is not a person to me, the dragon is the expression... of the Creative
The dragon power might come through a person but the dragon is not a person IMO.
Trojina, what do you think "fruitful to see great people" does mean in hexagram 1, then?
No one - of course - is perfect, but there are certainly people each one of us can learn something from, and also definitely there are people who are more mature than others, more noble than others, and so forth. Biden > Trump, for instance, which is hardly the same as "Biden is perfect and should be worshipped like a god," and he probably does have areas in which he is a d***.
Again, I think I see what you mean... if Yi advises me to emulate X in a certain way, the idea is surely to internalize the particular good quality into myself, and then I have no need of X anymore. But it's probably both. I have to grow into X's good quality before I can grow out of using X as a role model.Having a role model is something to grow out of not grow into.
I see what you mean, and, in practice, in readings, if you get line 6 -The dragon is not a person to me, the dragon is the expression, the head of, the visible bit of, the Creative. The Creative as only one half of the whole can tread too far as in line 6. The dragon power might come through a person but the dragon is not a person IMO.
There are vast quantities of people who I would never, ever want to be president, they don't have anywhere close to the character for it, or the intelligence, so yes, a good president is better than all of them. (Let's let Trump out of it.)Biden is no more noble than someone who lives down the road who you never met. Why pick out 2 presidents when they have no more claim to greatness or intelligence than any other of the billions of people one has never met.
I don't think anyone's saying nothing but a person.There's no doubt for me for I can't imagine anything more dull and depressing than making this magical expression of the Creative nothing but a person
There are two ways of understanding the dragon. The more widely-accepted view is that this is the Azure Dragon asterism: a giant group of constellations that begins to rise above the horizon at the beginning of spring, and is in full view at the height of the year.
I see what you mean, and, in practice, in readings, if you get line 6 -
'Overweening dragon has regrets.'
- don't you generally get the impression that if you are overweening (or whatever that dragon is), you'll regret it? And if you get line 4, aren't you the one leaping? (Whether you are a dragon or just a fish with ambitions?)
Behind every great person there lies an idiot.(T-Dragon 2021)
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