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Is there a danger of being led on by the I ching through asking too many Q's?
(Thing is the Yi I know is meant to be about truth - but maybe more your truth at that moment, rather than the truth of your outer reality/relationship)
33.3 > 12
Ok, yes maybe there's only one answer for a given situation in that moment, even if you can think of other questions that might explain aspects of the situation, that is then approaching it from your perspective, or looking for what you see or want to see in the situation. Perhaps investing too much of yourself - your time and energy - into creating new or different Q's about the same issue - subjectifies the result, and is thus leading you back into your ego/delusions, rather than helping you to see the truth. What you need is the objective situation to encourage you to give up the struggle or see the situation simply.
Do you think the answer is saying you can ask the Yi ANY question, but you're heart will still not be glad? You are not be able to rest with the truth if it hurts, so you keep chopping away at the issue with your axe! Ah eureka. Breaking up a situation into smaller pieces only makes it messier and harder to wade through. The bigger picture - maybe from one reading - lets you see the situation as a whole - and distanced, as in representing reality, rather than asking lots of questions, which only brings your desires, wants and biases to bear. Perhaps it should be as simple as 'How do I deal with this now?'.. instead of making such a story about it, a drama.
Maybe there's only one anser at the end of the day - to all situations or problems - Yin or yang. Yes or no.
And hex 18 may be saying, work on your spoilt technique?
I have actually put my I ching book away into a box under my bed today - intending not to use it for a while - and I have come to the end of a journal which was mainly full of questions about one person/situation. I'm really going to try to not use the I ching for as long as I can unless I'm really confused about something - because I think I've absorbed most of it - maybe not it's subtleties - definitely still need Clarity - but the wisdom or general advice of the hexagrams and what they're saying. Maybe I can draw on memory - the I ching now within. Or at least give myself a chance to think.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).