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No fish or fish - it makes absolutely no difference....
Try telling them that
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Hexagram 44.2.4.
Line 2: Having fish in the cookhouse.
Line 4: No fish in the cookhouse.
(Richard Rutt, Zhouyi a bronzeagedocument)
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NanJing-rule: Maintext. (1)
Zhu Xi : The upper changing line ie fourth line. (2)
Alfred Huang: The lower changing line (3)
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1) http://www.biroco.com/yijing/Shih-chuan_Chen.pdf
2) http://www.biroco.com/yijing/basics.htm In the section "How to interpret changing lines"
3) The complete I Ching; end of introduction, from his master Yin
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I have seen in an online I Ching page that all of the six lines should be taken in consideration when reading the oracle; It sounds logic, and in this case it should then be something like: "In the inner/lower trigram, Fish in the cookhouse and In the outer/upper trigram, No fish in the cookhouse..." with Upper and Lower trigrams symbolic meaning taken into account.
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So: Fish in the tank or No fish in the tank ???
Possibility (1): "Though she be healthy, do not take her to wife"
(2): "No fish in the cookhouse"
(3): "Fish in the cookhouse"
Counting the occurences in my journal I would say 44.2 tends to be more mental, and 44.4 more physical. The advice 44.2 gives is not to make a transition from mental to physical, "don't let it go out", "keep it under the lid". The transition 44.2 advises against could have both ends physical, "you have some income, but not enough to buy that car, don't buy it". In the 44.4 the advice is "those rejected might become difficult to contact when needed", 44.4 can be physical, but mental as well: "your idea is not valuable, no benefit for you, no benefit for others, but it's bad to reject all ideas, you may need some later, stay in touch".drSurya, do You mean that 44.2 is in the mental sphere and 44.4 in the physic ?
Was reading through this and was struck:
Is 44.4 like our saying: "The fish that got away."
:confusion:
I always took it like something isn't there. But now I am thinking something that disappeared? Don't know.
As Bradford says proper use of restraint... too much? Like as in when you try to hold a fish, if you squeeze it too hard and slips out of one's fingers? Or you put it in the wallet, and when you open it, you don't see it there anymore? In some translation, I can't remember it suggested a thief who had stolen the fish. Another suitor?
:confusion:
Thank you!
Much much clearer to me!
Now my question is: there seems to be a quality in some commentaries as if the person has shown arrogance or ...am struggling for the words ... superiority. I remember Wilhelm says something like someone or something formerly considered -- "insignificant" people --won't be there. It feels like that which was rejected was considered lower somehow. Is that correct?
Thanks beatpoet.
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