Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
HEX 56THE IMAGE WILHELMPrisons ought to be places where people are lodged only temporarily, as guests are. They must not become dwelling places.
A young man decided to leave the world of society. He started to fish for eel as a living. Every day he fished for bait and prepared his lines, 1100 hooks. The first day he caught many eels, but after that - never again anything. He kept going on and on for 2 years, every day putting out his lines.
Now he is an artist, famous for his etchings of fishing boats and the harbor... His dedication did not change, and it brought him what belongs to him, even if it did not make any sense rationally.
how does a prisoner rehabilitate from 56
49. Change
Line 1:
Fastened using the leather of a yellow ox.
Things are too fixed to change them.
Line 2:
When the day is over, change is arrived at.
Going brings good fortune.
Without fault.
It takes some time before the change is happening. Things go well by going forward with this, it is not a mistake.
Hexagram is changing to:
28. Too Much
Too much.
The roof-beam is sagging.
It is beneficial to have a goal to move to.
Progressing.
Something is too much for this situation. One better make a plan to do something about it, and make it more robust. There is progress.
With the translation I am using, line 1 would be the "prison" you are in; line 2 would be the vehicle for change and transformation. H28 would likely be best interpreted by you, but all in all, I think you have to go slowly, but focus on change and renewal:
Translation and commentary by Ewald Berkers.Whose translation /commentary is it.?
Things are too fixed to change them. Ewald Berkers[/QUOTE ]
It just became so it clear that I just don't trust this to be a permanent change for the better and when I went to Lise Heyboyer's translation it became even more apparent that the route of my negativity is not based on anything concrete just feelings and taking too much notice of the naysayers (internal in my case)
There are always innumerable reasons why one thinks change is impossible. Evaluate them critically - very often they are other people's reasons and one has adopted them too easily. What is common is usually not creative.
Your idea of using Line 2 as a vehicle for change is also very apt, and seems to sum up the frustrating journey so far while talking about the need for me to manage the new changes. I think here Yi is saying to me 'You don't have to worry about how to rehabilitate - it will happen naturally as you grow accustomed in small ways to small changes.
When we have tried in every other way to bring about reforms, but without success, revolution becomes necessary. But such a thoroughgoing upheaval must be carefully prepared. There must be available a man who has the requisite abilities and who possesses public confidence. To such a man we may well turn. This brings good fortune and is not a mistake. The first thing to be considered is our inner attitude toward the new condition that will inevitably come. We have to go out to meet it, as it were. Only in this way can it be prepared for.
(Not sure who the fella is but that would be a VERY welcome change)
Perhaps I am thinking too much about what might happen instead of just focusing on what is happening - the good changes that are already here. I also think you are right about Hex 28 refering to my home - it is literaly sagging from the loft downwards under the weight of all the stuff needed for my new projects - Poor little house - there is no room to create and that is very frustrating as well.
Anyhoo thanks again for all your help. I feel so much better now!
Anne-Marie
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).