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Etymology of the ideograms Wu Wang.25
The first of the two ideograms used to illustrate hexagram 25 is a very common negation and it is often encountered in the context of the Yi Jing. Its etymology, on the other hand, is not that easy to seize. Some interpreters see it as a Lame Man and using analogous sounds and similar writing style propose a similarity with another familiar ideogram: the Wu commonly used to express the Taoists Wu-Wei (Non-Action), though they do not mean the same thing.
The second ideogram portraying Wu Wang.25 is assembled with two groups on top of each other. At the bottom is a character built by combining the ideogram for the verb To Enter and the ideogram Crevice which, originally, meant To Hide, To Disappear From Sight. From there it has come to describe all that has disappeared because either lost, misplaced, destroyed or that has died. In the context of the Yi Jing this ideogram is featured most often in the Judgment formula: All Regrets Disappear. When it is encountered outside the judgment, it is always used in situations where coupled circumstances are undone.
By combining this group, the ideogram comes to represent the disappearance of what women bring: descendancy, the survival of the family name. Whence its actual meaning: Disorder, Wandering…
Wu Wang.25 is the only hexagram to be used with a negation as if, in this context, it could only be understood with the description What Is Not. Its pictorialism therefore represents the Negation of Wandering. This negative formula insists on the unstructured and troubled appearance of a natural formula occurrence whose hidden virtues escape our common sense. It could be rendered, literally, as Non-Wandering, Non-Disordered. Spontaneously is chosen in this context to underline the strategy solicitated by this perspective.
Confucius
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The first of the two ideograms used to illustrate hexagram 25 is a very common negation and it is often encountered in the context of the Yi Jing. Its etymology, on the other hand, is not that easy to seize. Some interpreters see it as a Lame Man and using analogous sounds and similar writing style propose a similarity with another familiar ideogram: the Wu commonly used to express the Taoists Wu-Wei (Non-Action), though they do not mean the same thing.
The second ideogram portraying Wu Wang.25 is assembled with two groups on top of each other. At the bottom is a character built by combining the ideogram for the verb To Enter and the ideogram Crevice which, originally, meant To Hide, To Disappear From Sight. From there it has come to describe all that has disappeared because either lost, misplaced, destroyed or that has died. In the context of the Yi Jing this ideogram is featured most often in the Judgment formula: All Regrets Disappear. When it is encountered outside the judgment, it is always used in situations where coupled circumstances are undone.
By combining this group, the ideogram comes to represent the disappearance of what women bring: descendancy, the survival of the family name. Whence its actual meaning: Disorder, Wandering…
Wu Wang.25 is the only hexagram to be used with a negation as if, in this context, it could only be understood with the description What Is Not. Its pictorialism therefore represents the Negation of Wandering. This negative formula insists on the unstructured and troubled appearance of a natural formula occurrence whose hidden virtues escape our common sense. It could be rendered, literally, as Non-Wandering, Non-Disordered. Spontaneously is chosen in this context to underline the strategy solicitated by this perspective.
Confucius
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