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The Yijing is (not) a skip
It’s a skip – full of stuff that got chucked in at random – so the skill is to be able to see what you need. Learn that skill, and the skip-Yi becomes a really useful tool.
Yi is not a fork lift truck either
Yes.. the 'really useful tool' part was not exactly meant to be positive. Though if all you want is a tool, then readings done this way can be one.Yeah Yi is not a tool and so any idea of skill as in skill in using or operating a tool doesn't apply.
Also yes. That is, as a teacher ultimately all you can do is jump around saying, 'Look at that, listen to this, how does that feel? what does that say to you?' and so on. You can show people what to look at, and some ways of looking, but the actual experience of hearing it speak is not something you can impart.in the end I think we only learn to understand Yi through Yi. That's not to say other people can't teach us a lot but they can never teach us wholly for that we must go to Yi.
I wonder if that's what Hilary's trying to help us with, getting to the top of 50, sort of the pinnacle of refinement. It needs inspiration and skill at every step. Skills can be taught, but they also need practice. Inspiration can't be taught, but it can be fed. It's everything coming together.
Hmph.It's probably important to remember Hilary isn't standing above 'us' looking down from a great height with infinitely more wisdom than any of us mere mortals.
Yes, I see what you mean about tools. Languages are tools, a 'cello is a tool, in a way; no need to abolish the concept. Only the 'interconnected web of little verses (and gua) written down on paper (well, bamboo to start with) by humans' seems simultaneously like a) Yi and b) the organism/ body Yi uses to speak.I agree there's a consciousness behind this. But it speaks through an interconnected web of little verses written down on paper by humans, and that's quite tool-like, I think. (Very inspired, too, but all tools are inspired. Tool use was a milestone in human development; scientists watch for it in animals to assess their intelligence and creativity.)
I think it would sound very weird - to anyone who hadn't had the experience of conversation with the oracle.This may sound quite weired when reading through it, but I don't know how else to describe it.
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