Graphic Yi images

[meng]

It's funny, but though I haven't looked at those images in quite awhile, when I went looking for them in numerical order (they got mixed when uploading the batch), just by the visual, they were surprisingly easy to find. A mental picture can make a different connection, possibly even a more direct connection, than words. I could really relate to that image in the low corner of your 17. If I try to describe it, the truth of it vanishes.

Yet, I give words to it anyway. Ah, well.

 

[meng]

hex 21

Teeth are for more than smiling.
Excuses won’t cut it.​

 

[meng]

hex 22

Good form enhances a multitude of sins.
Great form shows the naked truth.​

 

[meng]

hex 23

A pruned rosebush bears the finest rose.​

(photo courtesy of LiSe)

 

[meng]

hex 24

Every rose goes back from where it came.​

(photo courtesy of LiSe)

 

[meng]

Going to wait on 25 until my granddaughter arrives . Which should be soon.

 

[meng]

hex 26

Creative force contained.​

 

[meng]

hex 27

Every thought, every action and every word
is the beginning of what you become.​

(photo courtesy of LiSe)

 

[meng]

hex 28

There’s something about the roof caving in, or looking up and knowing there’s more distance to swim than there is air left to reach the surface, that gets someone’s attention.​

 

[meng]

hex 29

Depth is a question of perception.
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[meng]

hex 30

 

[meng]

hex 31

Attraction is asymmetric light. It won't fit in closed boxes.​

 

[meng]

hex 32

Maturity and commitment perpetuate a relationship.
It is not a question of speed but of steadiness.​

 

[answeredquestions]

whoa. these are all great. the words too. Something struck me with hexagram 29 and what you say beneath it. I know we are supposed to be getting into the visuals, but I am really digging your small words that go with too. They can be looked at on their own or together. (the pictures and the words) Those people in Hex 27 make me happy.

 

[meng]

This is first a discussion forum, and it's certainly welcomed.

None of these are written in stone, nor were ever intended to be. Since you mention it, 29's image and verse was redone today, as well as 31's verse. A couple were condensed versions of already condensed verses. I most often find that the way to improve what I write is to eliminate a lot of redundant or gratuitous words, or words which have a diluting effect.

It's like speaking to a dog's mind. A dog can process one thing at a time, and has complete focus on that one thing. That can become an obsession if it repeats the behavior habitually, impulsively, i.e. 29. So the focus must be clear and singular to get to the dog's mind. If the dog is in an unbalanced/neurotic state of mind, it must be *snapped* out of that state, into the state that is desired. It can't be reasoned out, and affection at such a time only reinforces the old habitual reaction. My small lyrics are to snap out of the troublesome mind and into a desired change of mind.

 

[heylise]

It is great to see the images here, where they are welcomed. I always loved them, both images and texts. They are inspired.
Maybe coming months I will have more time to post.

 

[meng]

Thanks, LiSe. :bows: It's fun working with photos images from you, Maria, Carin and one from Marike too. Each brings your own breath of life into the meaning.

 

[meng]

hex 33

What is honor when you are no more?
Leave what is not your own, and live.​

 

[meng]

hex 34

Stone man has been around a long time.
Approach with respect due.
He may choose to lend some to you.​

(photo courtesy of Carson)

 

[meng]

hex 35

A clear mind illuminates the world.
Three times the truth is seen.​

 

[meng]

hex 36

Safer in the lighted cave than in a hostile wind.​

(photo courtesy and self portrait of a retreated LiSe)

 

[meng]

hex 37

Love makes the loaves rise
enough to feed a family.​

(photo courtesy of LiSe)

 

[meng]

hex 38

Never let anyone rob your own way. Neither be a thief.
Sameness is not necessary to get along.​

(photo courtesy of LiSe)

 

[meng]

hex 39

Turn back,
increase depth,
move along the lines of least resistance.​

 

[meng]

hex 40

Release what is obsolete.

"Do or do not. There is no try." ~ Yoda​

 

[meng]

hex 41

The sacrifice of one for many.​

(photo courtesy of LiSe)

 

[meng]

hex 42

Increase comes by creating the conditions for it.​

 

[meng]

hex 43

Stand up for yourself, but try not to step on others.​

(photo courtesy of LiSe)

 

[meng]

hex 44

For this I am temporarily out of words,
as she intends.​

(photo courtesy of LiSe)

 

[meng]

hex 45

Get it together.​

(photo of snowflake taken by LiSe)