hexagram 42.2.5>41 on what is my mission in life? for what i have born?

[SkyCat]

maybe its just saying that im not a good person? that i dont spread somthing good in other people? im for the gains only?

 

[Trojina]

That's clearly not what it says.


I don't buy all this 'mission in life' malarkey. Living your life is your mission in life, that's quite enough without imagining you need to have some grand mission. As John Lennon said (I think) 'Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans' something like that. There's no need for big missions, what matters is you, your experience, being you, your connections to others.

Regarding the readings it's like well your life came about through an outpouring of blessing. 42>41, the cycle of increase and decrease. 42.5 is absolutely lovely here don't you think

It says from Hilary/wiki

'Sincere and confident, with a benevolent heart,
No question: good fortune from the source.
Sincerity, confidence and benevolence are my own de.'

That's an incredibly direct answer. There's no doubts, being sincere and true and kind are all that matter and your answer says those are your birth right.

Wilhelm's translation is more direct and sweeter


'If in truth you have a kind heart, ask not.
Supreme good fortune.
Truly kindness will be recognised as your virtue.'


So it's saying you don't need to ask about your life mission, a kind heart is all you are asked to give and that is what you have and so no you aren't a bad person. In the end no life mission will ever count for as much as having a kind heart. perhaps your life mission is sharing the kindness you have within you. Every single impulse you have towards kindness whether towards an animal or a person is your life mission right there.


42.2 here I think asks you to regard your life as a great blessing. It may not feel like it but you haven't lived it all yet.

 

[Trojina]

...and asking 'for what I have been born ?' you weren't born as tool for a specific function, that is what the 'life mission' model is based on, a capitalist view of life itself...you were born because you were becoming, you blossomed out into the world because that is what life does. The idea, perpetuated in new age thinking, that you must earn this life by having some defined purpose is quite harmful to people I think.

Lives are organic, they go one way and then another, up and down in and out....if you want to see some experts in life purpose watch cats, I think they have it nailed, they clearly don't sweat over it much or lose sleep over it.

I think the only people who benefit from the notion of life mission are the ones who promote it as an idea in their books and courses . There's plenty of those around ! They write things like 'Jane didn't like her job but she liked cooking so she left her job and now she runs a chain of bakeries nationwide'. Those people who write that stuff have a lot to answer for. For sure there will be a Jane who did just that but for every Jane who did that there will be a thousand other Janes who did this for a little while then did that for a little while and then experienced these feelings then got hung up on some dodgy guy and then got out of being with the dodgy guy and then moved and then did something else and all these people who's lives grow in that seemingly random way, branching out all over the place way are made to feel bad they can't define what their life mission is.

 

[Trojina]

...and there's you wondering if you are bad and what your life mission is and Yi says you're kind and that's more than enough mission.

 

[SkyCat]

That's clearly not what it says.


I don't buy all this 'mission in life' malarkey. Living your life is your mission in life, that's quite enough without imagining you need to have some grand mission. As John Lennon said (I think) 'Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans' something like that. There's no need for big missions, what matters is you, your experience, being you, your connections to others.

Regarding the readings it's like well your life came about through an outpouring of blessing. 42>41, the cycle of increase and decrease. 42.5 is absolutely lovely here don't you think

It says from Hilary/wiki

'Sincere and confident, with a benevolent heart,
No question: good fortune from the source.
Sincerity, confidence and benevolence are my own de.'

That's an incredibly direct answer. There's no doubts, being sincere and true and kind are all that matter and your answer says those are your birth right.

Wilhelm's translation is more direct and sweeter


'If in truth you have a kind heart, ask not.
Supreme good fortune.
Truly kindness will be recognised as your virtue.'


So it's saying you don't need to ask about your life mission, a kind heart is all you are asked to give and that is what you have and so no you aren't a bad person. In the end no life mission will ever count for as much as having a kind heart. perhaps your life mission is sharing the kindness you have within you. Every single impulse you have towards kindness whether towards an animal or a person is your life mission right there.


42.2 here I think asks you to regard your life as a great blessing. It may not feel like it but you haven't lived it all yet.

thank you very much for this kind of approach Trojina

sometimes i dont know who iam many times people traet me wrong and i believe that is my fault of course and many times i have felt used and aggresion from people even from my parents and then my partners ..i do let them do iknow..i wrote mission but i don want something big i dont care about that. thinki have a tendency to understand and take care others better than i i understand myself and i feel that this is why some of them treat me wrong. i want to find my road in life but i feel that im on loops of other peoples lifes

 

[SkyCat]

and many also said me that oo my sweetie youare so kind my sweetie but in away that it feels like its bad?and im stupid? i dont care ..but sometimes it hearts feels like im the other kind of jane and in my relationships with men nit the first jane of the book for sure