Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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“Blame” was in ancient China something a ghost or spirit caused. Making its victim sick, or even causing him to die. See Constance Cook “Death in ancient China”, where she mentions it many times: “..unhappy ghosts and spirits that he somehow offended, thus incurring ‘blame’ jiu..” (p.71)
“No mistake means mistakes can be mended.”
“Quaking at No mistake depends on regret.”
‘Noble one creates and creates to the end of the day,
At nightfall on the alert, as if in danger.
No mistake.’
‘Someone dancing in the abyss.
No mistake.’
‘Noble one creates and creates to the end of the day,
At nightfall on the alert, as if in danger.
No mistake.’
‘With one eye, can see.
Lame, can still walk.
Treads on the tiger’s tail:
It bites him. Pitfall.
Soldier acting as a great leader.’
‘Someone dancing in the abyss.
No mistake.’
Whether the ‘gathering’ is of many individuals or one, it is always a high-intensity way of living. Wu Jing Nuan noted the unusual emotional intensity in the moving line texts: ‘a hug, smiles, distress, sighs and tears’. Perhaps this is because of the constant struggle to align present emotions and actions with the higher purpose. But every one of the line texts also speaks of being ‘without fault’ – I believe this is the only hexagram where this is so. Naturally, the meaning evolves from line to line, but I think the overriding message is that at each stage, the greater purpose puts the extremes of your experience into proportion, making them ‘without fault’. The ‘direction to go’ has to be right – then, its manifestations from moment to moment may be painful, but you are not locked into them.
‘Repeated returning.
Danger,
No mistake.’
‘Your own day, so make radical change
And set out to bring order: good fortune, no mistake.’
‘Confined while drinking and feasting,
Now scarlet knee-coverings are coming.
Fruitful to use offerings and oblations.
Setting out to bring order: pitfall, no mistake.’
‘Exceeding in wading the river, head underwater.
Pitfall.
No mistake.’
‘Advancing with your horns.
Holding fast, use this to subjugate the city.
Danger, good fortune, not a mistake.
Constancy: shame.’
The line takes a step or two back from the immediate objective, the excitement of charging and winning, and observes that the moral of the story is not what you might think in the heat of the moment.
‘Your wheels dragged back,
Your tail soaked,
No mistake.’
‘Being true and confident in drinking wine,
Not a mistake.
Soaking your head,
Being true and confident, losing your grip on that.’
63.1 and 64.6
Zhen as Trigram is Yang Wood. Its the beginning of Spring and also the moment Yang starts to increase in a noticeable way in the world around.The word Rutt translates ‘Quaking’ is zhen, the name of Hexagram 51. Lynn translates this as ‘the means to arouse one to so as to have “no blame” depends on remorse.’
There is a link between the place and the person. Their own connection to the lineage helps that link, so "no curse" would basically mean the connection is flowing all right with that decision/situation.
Good or bad, the connection to the lineage is fresh, flowing and still there, so whatever else is going on it won't be out of alignment with the flow or Dao or Heaven or whatever we want to call it.
Important part here is that that connection is their own view of how they are fine with all of it... So "no curse" would basically mean, no inner conflicts deep enough to brake the important connections to the lineages and places representing them on Earth.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).