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So I have a few minor injuries: a shoulder sprain, a knee bruise. I got them training in a martial art, which I really love.

Am contemplating whether to go to practice today or not with these injuries. On the one hand, it might be nice to give them time to heal. On the other hand, I'm really looking forward to going to practice, and if I don't, it will be a week before I can go again. So whether I go today or not, there's going to be a week of healing.

Go to practice despite these injuries? (Legge translations)
18 Repair, unchanging.
“Successful progress is indicated for those who properly repair what has been spoiled. It is advantageous to cross the great stream. One should consider carefully the events three days before the turning point and the tasks remaining for three days afterward.”
So if I do this I will need to repair myself? Or is going to practice itself a reparative measure? I got a little confused.

So I asked for clarification. Suppose I just take the normal measures (Advil or Tylenol tonight) , and if I do not go to practice tonight, what happens?
43.3.4.5 Resoluteness > 19 Approach
.3: “The third line, dynamic, shows its subject about to advance with strong and determined looks. There will be evil. But the superior man, bent on cutting off the criminal, will walk alone and encounter the rain, till he be hated by his proper associates as if he were contaminated by the others. In the end there will be no blame against him.
.4: “The fourth line, dynamic, shows one from whose buttocks the skin has been stripped, and who walks slowly and with difficulty. If he could act like a sheep led after its companions, occasion for repentance would disappear. But though he hear these words, he will not believe them.
.5: “The fifth line, dynamic, shows the small men like a bed of purslaine, which ought to be uprooted with the utmost determination. The subject of the line having such determination, his action, in harmony with his central position, will lead to no error or blame.

And if I do go and participate, what then happens as a result?
15.2 Modesty > 46 Pushing Upward
.2: “The second line, magnetic, shows us temperance that has made itself recognized. With firm correctness there will be good fortune.”
So good fortune if perhaps I'm modest tonight and protect myself?

What are your thoughts? Seems like it's reasonably fine either way, but not going may be the harder path in some ways.
 

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Go to practice despite these injuries? (Legge translations)
18 Repair, unchanging.

NO!
Your body needs to repair the sprain.

I can tell you from experience that when you try to power through an injury (not counting bruises) , you end up with a disability.

(mine is plantar fascitis + achilles tendonitis in same foot caused by continuing after an injury.)
 
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The first response you got was 18, Detoxifying, which is about healing what needs to be healed - clearing the air, even if it takes 3 or more days to do so. So, it seems like a no-brainer: take time to heal your injuries. All the rest just seems like adding more foul air to an already-damaged situation! Or were you perhaps just fishing for a better response?
 
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NO!
Your body needs to repair the sprain.

I can tell you from experience that when you try to power through an injury (not counting bruises) , you end up with a disability.

(mine is plantar fascitis + achilles tendonitis in same foot caused by continuing after an injury.)

Point taken. Though I actually saw an orthopedist a few days ago about it, and he said if I felt good to go, he wouldn't worry about it too much. He didn't say, absolutely no practice until it was healed or whatever... and it is better than a few days ago, basically, despite my going to practice once in between.

The first response you got was 18, Detoxifying, which is about healing what needs to be healed - clearing the air, even if it takes 3 or more days to do so. So, it seems like a no-brainer: take time to heal your injuries. All the rest just seems like adding more foul air to an already-damaged situation! Or were you perhaps just fishing for a better response?

Heh. Well, the confusion was simply this: that the intent of my very first question was "what if I went" and it said 18. If that was the wrong course of action, then misfortune would have been the right response from Yi; but 18's judgment does not say misfortune.

Liu's translation, for example, says: "Work after spoiling. Great success. It is of benefit to cross the great water. Before starting, three days. After starting, three days. [This hexagram implies that, although conditions are bad now, improvement can be expected.]"

That's why I asked for clarification...
 
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Well, the confusion was simply this: that the intent of my very first question was "what if I went" and it said 18.
Yes, I can see that - and sorry if I came across as too judgemental, it's just that often when people pose multiple queries for the same issue, it seems that they are cherry-picking a response: 'don't like that one, and don't like the next one, oh, at last, an answer that is what I wanted to hear in the first place!"

So, leaving that aside ... maybe another way of asking this might be 'tell me about healing my injuries and going to practice.'

The version I have reads:

18. Detoxifying. Most fulfilling
Worthwhile to cross the great stream
Before the beginning, three days
After the beginning, three days

For me it doesn't really offer a yes or no response, so what I did was probe a bit: what would 'detoxifying look like? What is the great stream to be crossed? And why wait three days, and for what? The 'answer' then - if you can call it that - was more felt and less a rational answer: I got the sense that this might be advising that you take time to heal (detoxify) from your injuries. The three days, seemed to imply to take the time you need to do this.

But, hey, what the heck do I know?
 
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