Casual intercourse... Hex 61 line 5. Need interpretation...

[sandor]

Hello friends at this I Ching Forum!
First of all, I want to thank you all for sharing so much insight with me.
I?ve found truth in every line you?ve written so far, each accessing a different "issue" in my life.
Also, I?d like to apologize for so many ideas having to be discussed among you.
I used the word "disturbance", yes. My mother tongue is not English, so it might sound kind of weird sometimes, but I meant that for this:
I?ve been into a good relationship with my parter for the past 11 years. That means we are still together. But for the past two years I?ve been ocassionaly having "light" sex once a week or a fortnight... My partner knows I?m in need of looking for adventures... He seems to understand though I never went too deep to inform what my adventures are like and I do think it is irrelevant for they belong to my inner world.
Yes, I might feel a little ashamed of being in need of light sex in face of morality and good standard. But my body seems to take another road and I think I can?t break my self into two different pieces... Problem is acceptance and enjoying life as is.
Thanks again... And sorry if I should have been more explicit before conversations went too far... Sandor.

 

[pakua]

Hi,

Doesn't 41 speak of the need for reducing the passions?

The only thing I can think of about disturbing your consciousness, is if you're being sincere with your partner.

 

[bradford_h]

"Doesn't 41 speak of the need for reducing the passions?"

In a more meaningful sense of the metaphor, it speaks of plugging one's leaks, conserving resources and making better use of them. Not avoiding feelings or passions but giving up the wasteful ones and keeping those passions which are doing you some good. Keeping the concentrate. The lake at the foot of the mountain has drained far enough down.

 

[pakua]

How about, seeking a deep union with others leads to reduction with your partner.

 

[lightofdarkness]

The 48-ness of 41, 41s source of nourishment is described by 37 - reflecting the distillation/concentration purity of 41 - keep it all in the family so to speak. (and that releases tension)

The skeletal form of 41, its 27-ness, is described by analogy to 07 - the generic sense of uniformity, of 'sameness' across all members of the collective.

Thus 48 sets down foundations as nutriants out of which develops a vague form reflecting generic characteristics of 07 and that form develops into 41 as we know it.

If the distillation process fails then we have literal decrease.

Thus the use of the term 'reduction' includes the refinement, the distillation of the 'pure' form from all of the surrounding rubbish.

Chris