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I must agree with Brad: WU WANG means NOT ABSURD, say, POSSIBLE.
Things are not what they seem maybe we need to change the light, seeing like a negative copy which results in a positive reading:
GIFTS ALWAYS EXPECTED, JUST WANTED.
HIGHT INTEREST, NO SURPRISE, QUITE DEEP.
PEOPLE GOING TO EACH OTHER, NOT PASSING.
That´s our spring blossomed park
[I apoligize, broadband collapsed]
An almost literal translation:
IT´S POSSIBLE
It can happen or it can be done.
Believe it or not.
SUPREME CELEBRATION, PROFITABLE OMEN.
Enjoy much, all be for good.
Said by the oracle.
THE UPRIGHT BANDIT HAS TROUBLE.
Maybe a favorable competitive context: a potential consumer for your goods.
There are men in trouble. Say, needy.
UNPROFITABLE TO HAVE FAR TO GO.
Useless to go too far.
Better remain now and here. If not now, when? If not here, where?
Profitable to come near.
THUNDER BELOW THE HEAVEN.
Stormy passion under command of God.
Fated passion.
No without control.
Lucky.
The title of this hexagram has two parts: Wu Wang, Not Entangled. So what does it mean to be entangled? To be without principle or foundation; without hope and - since the character shows a broken sickle or barren woman - without fruit. The hexagram means separating from all things that are barren, that have (or should have!) no place in life.
This hexagram often comes up in times of misfortune, to offer a way of dealing with it not by exploring it as something you created for yourself, but by firmly detaching from it. Some scholars have even proposed that Wuwang is the name of a disease demon (Demon Fruitless?), dealt with not with medicinal herbs (line 5) but by fastening it to an animal and sending it away (line 3). Bad things can happen that are not your fault; sometimes the best response is just to separate yourself from them.
(There is a negative aspect to this attitude, as evinced by the opposition of hexagrams 25 and 46, Pushing Upward. Hexagram 46 shows an optimistic confidence that progress is possible, step by step, and effort will be rewarded. Hexagram 25 can point to an unwillingness to get involved in trying to change anything, for fear of misjudging and making matters worse.)
Being Without Entanglement is the prime antidote to obsessive stress: it means not getting caught up in trying to 'fix' things that are not yours to fix, even if you could. And also, not being enmeshed in profitless nostalgia or anxiety, you are capable of complete presence. This is the 'correctness' of the Judgement -
'Without Entanglement,
In hexagram 25, to express one's self strongly and openly and unexpectedly is an act of innocence since it comes from the heart and thus is not premeditated ( a moment of enlightenment). To escape from the dark side, the side of service, requires an initial act; one needs to do something and get involved with the new and disentangled from the old. The line comments show that non-involvement/disentanglement has it's ups and downs.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).