Help with Hexagram 36.3>24 - What should I let go of?

[Wild Goose]

So I was active online and just wanted to share my latest reading here, to summarise I asked what to do next in general and felt Yi was advising to let go of a few things. So I asked:

What confusing thing do I need to let go of?
Hexagram 36.3>24
(Brightness Hidden to Returning)

What delusional thing do I need to let go of?
Hexagram 36.3>24
(Brightness Hidden to Returning)

I've decided to stop here. I asked the first one last night and did some thinking and reading around, 36 is also clouded perceptions, it makes sense that to find clarity as in the original reading I need to let go of a clouded perception, it's just what is it, line 3 had me scratching my head, do I need to stop trying to 'fix' things? Is there some idea I keep returning to that I need to drop? In the end I decided to sleep on it and feeling no clearer this morning moved on to the next thing to let go of, I thought I can always come back to that last one. So what delusional thing do I need to let go of ended in the same reading, I wonder if the confusing and delusional thing are one and the same? Anyway I think I better get to grips with this reading before I move on again.

If anyone can help me understand these hexagrams and moving lines I'd be really grateful

 

[Freedda]

Hmmm. Maybe the Yi is suggesting that doing four readings instead of really seeking to fully understand the first one will lead to confusion, and is a good way to hide or obscure the message / meaning of the first answer.

 

[Wild Goose]

Hi Freeda thanks for responding, you think Yi is saying return to the first reading to avoid confusion? How would I seek to fully understand the first one, I thought I comprehended it.

Edit: Ok, I'm going back to the first reading to think it over in terms of my first question/intention
Edit: I think your interpretation is right Freeda

 

[radiofreewill]

Hi Just_a_Traveler,

"What confusing thing do I need to let go of?" and "What delusional thing do I need to let go of?"
36.3 to 24 ~ Let go of The Big Chief ~ ego ~ to Return to your True Self.

From Cleary's Taoist i-Ching:

3 yang: Illumination concealed, going south hunting, catching the big chief; hasty correction won’t do.

EXPLANATION

Equipped with both strength and illumination, operating the natural true fire, one burns away the human mentality, the chief villain. Once the human mentality is gone, aberrant fire naturally vanishes. This is like “illumination concealed, going south hunting, catching the big chief.” However, the human mentality has discriminatory consciousness dwelling in it, which is the seed of routine existence throughout time; it is not easy to get rid of this, and if one is too fierce about getting rid of it, that will conversely stimulate deviant action of aberrant fire, and the true fire will suffer damage. So “hasty correction won’t do.” Gradually dissolving it, the human mentality will eventually vanish. This is operating the true fire so that illumination is not damaged."

Once the human mentality dissolves, all that remains is Primordial Awareness.

Happy Hunting!

 

[Freedda]

... and since I directed you back to your first query - 30.1.2.3 > 23 - I posted a response there. D.