...life can be translucent

Menu

How can I be satisfied if I remember danger, enjoy the life if I think in the death, put order while I can stop to see the disorder? 36.4 to 55

Albatross

visitor
Joined
Sep 18, 2019
Messages
129
Reaction score
43
I found a quote from Confucius while I read the interpretation of A. Huang of hexagram 12 (Huang, Alfred. The Complete I Ching. Inner Traditions, 2004, p. 130.)

What is danger?
It arises when one is satisfied with his security and neglects danger.
What is to perish?
It arises when one is satisfied with his survival and neglects death.
What is disorder?
It arises when one is satisfied with things in order and neglects
disorder.

I can not understand the text because it did not make sense. How is possible to see the light, enjoy the light while I am thinking in the darkness?

Then I asked the Yi:
How can I be satisfied if I remember danger, enjoy the life if I think in the death, put order while I can stop to see the disorder? 36.4 to 55

The Yi is telling me that I do not have to be afraid because like Hilary say in Hexagram 36

None of this means that the light is gone: on the contrary, it is hidden and safeguarded. It’s no more extinguished than the sun at night.

I have to avoid the despair, the depression and to wait in patience like in Hexagram 55 .

...why do we need to be told not to mourn at such a time? I think it’s because of the loss of a former life where you weren’t the one responsible. There’s a very fine line between bearing up under the weight, celebrating the abundance of opportunity to make things happen, and wanting to disappear into the mourning hut or under the duvet and just wait for it all to go away.

After I began to wrote I think the reading become clear. I understood that only I can see the light because the darkness contrast the light. Anyway I want to share it.

Best, Al.
 
Last edited:

Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom

Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).

Top