Is The I Ching Often Wrong or Misleading?

[rosada]

Hi listener,
Interesting the concept of randomness and dreams. I wish I had the vocabulary to discuss it. As it is I can only mumble that there is indeed something to it, and that we tend to devalue events that are "random" when maybe we should instead be recognizing that there is something to "randomness" that should not be demissed as common or easy, but should be acknowledged as an event that has laws and patterns all its own, laws we mere mortals can't grasp, but when we connect with it we are changed. There is something healing about randomness. Looking at a

 

[getojack]

softly flowing golden stream of piss and seeing the inner workings of the Tao, or seeing yourself in a hexagram composed of six broken and unbroken lines takes practice, but it's well worth the effort. The imagery of dreams and the imagery of the Yi have a logic all their own; a logic different from and parallel to the logic of the waking world. And to understand their logic, you need to familiarize yourself with that dreamy parallel world. The Dreamtime world is no less real than this one, but merely a parallel universe where different rules of logic apply. Think of a

 

[Trojina]

dream, any dream and you would probably notice the most unimportant detail you almost overlook is the key to understanding the message of the dream. For example the colour of the

 

[miakoda]

taxi you climb into is yellow, bright yellow, and you say to the driver: "Take me to 5th and Main, the girl I'm going to love and who is going to love me will be standing on that corner."

"Sure, pal," the driver says, but then he makes a left down 3rd and goes past

 

[bruce_g]

dream, any dream and you would probably notice the most unimportant detail you almost overlook is the key to understanding the message of the dream. For example the colour of the

lol!

 

[martin]

Is my browser fooling me or do all the posts on this page really end mid sentence?

 

[Trojina]

(Yeah Martin it appears we spontaneously began to leave sentences unfinished for the next poster to pick up - don't blow the flow man )

 

[miakoda]

so, your taxi's travelling down 3rd, not to 5th and Main and straight to the girl of your dreams, and it goes past 11th Street and...

 

[getojack]

straight into the red light district. You say to the taxi driver, "Hey man, the girl of my dreams is on 5th and Main! Don't you know your way around this city?" You hear maniacal laughter coming from the front seat as he pulls to the side of the road. Fearing for your life, you promptly get out of the taxi and notice that the prostitute on this street corner looks suspiciously like your ex-girlfriend. The taxi drives away at top speed and you

 

[hilary]

're left feeling like you've lost the thread. But

 

[mudpie]

it's only a dream, so you decide to approach the prostitute and ask for direction. "there must be some way outta here!" you plead, staring straight into her kaleidoscope eyes.
"NOt so fast" she says, "as long as you've come this far, I might as well tell you

 

[bruce_g]

that the secret of Yi's accuracy is in my

 

[lindsay]

laptop. While I peer at the blue and yellow screen and struggle to make out the dark little logo, she slips something cold into my hand. It is a golden key, and a plane ticket to a distant place - but when I look up, she has disappeared into the crowd. The teeth of the key remind me of a certain symbol, an I Ching hexagram I once saw called

 

[mudpie]

laptop. While I peer at the blue and yellow screen and struggle to make out the dark little logo,

LOL. Laugh break

 

[hilary]

... the Wanderer (Lu). Which reminds me,

 

[lindsay]

… But suddenly a black stretch limosine slips up to the curb in front of me. One of the smoked-glass windows purrs down slowly. A pale, thin hand with jeweled rings on every finger waves me forward. I lean over and hear a faint, accented voice whisper

 

[mudpie]

" Crikey! You're a lot more handsome in person than i thought you would be. Care to take a ride, Big Boy?" You sputter and cough, trying to stall, and then

 

[hilary]

notice the thick, black hairs on the pale, thin hand. You take a slow, deep breath and say,
"

 

[rosada]

"Are you by any chance heading for the airport?" Imagine my surprise when the answer came back,

 

[rosada]

{by the by, I take no responibility for this bizarre bit of performance art. I was writing a perfectly rationable thought about randomness when the phone rang. Not wishing to lose my half-finished piece I posted it mid-sentance, thinking I would be a good citizen and come back and complete it later. When I came back I discovered it had wandered off with some one else! Is it just coincidence that we are on 25.3 over on the Memorization thread..

25.3
Undeserved misfortune.
The cow that was tethered by someone
Is the Wanderer's gain, the citizen's loss.

..or is this the muse taking over as lindsey and topal warned us about on the Medallion thread?}

 

[hilary]

 

[rosada]

"Nope and neither!" cried the Spirit of the I Ching from deep with in the black limo, "I'm just being silly!"

(With thanks and a nod to andrea over on the Silly thread.)

 

[getojack]

You feel someone or something licking your face and suddenly the world looks very bright and you feel woozy. It takes a little while for your mind to adjust to what's happening, but then you realize that the man in the black limo has just knocked you over the head with a tire-iron.

And then you wake up.

 

[dobro p]

Groggy from sleep, you hear a voice beside you say: "Sleep well, darling?" and a pale-skinned hand with coarse, black hair reaches over with a mug of fresh coffee.

"That's funny," you think to yourself. "I don't remember...

 

[Tohpol]

Groggy from sleep, you hear a voice beside you say: "Sleep well, darling?" and a pale-skinned hand with coarse, black hair reaches over with a mug of fresh coffee.

"That's funny," you think to yourself. "I don't remember...

AAAAAAHHHOOW!

Someone pinches your bottom and you fall out of bed, pulling the covers with you so that end up in a heap on the floor. Slowly getting to your feet you realise you are wearing a rather chinzty pink, satin nightie. A pair of matching fluffy slippers lie close by and you wonder if they were part of a combo.

Directly ahead, lying sprawled on the bed is someone familiar. Suddenly, recognition seizes you. Shaking your head in disbelief you back away. As you do so, you realise you are holding the I Ching (Wilhelm edition) in your left hand and a pair of massive Y-fronts in your right. You are reasonably sure they are not yours.

"The coins are right here snooky-poops" comes the same gravelly voice, "Come and get them."

In an instant you know exactly what you have to do...

 

[lindsay]

So, clutching Wilhelm in one hand and your clothes in the other, you dash for the door at the end of the long room. The pale man covered with coarse black hair leaps from the rumpled bed. You reach for the door knob. Locked. Then you remember the golden key hanging loosely around your neck on its blue and yellow ribbon. The man is running toward you. You look at the key. It’s no longer the shape of hexagram 56 – this time it looks like 24. The key fits the lock! You hear a deep animal growl behind you as you slip out and slam the door shut. Then you turn -- and look in utter amazement at what’s stretched out in front of you. Eyes wide with disbelief, you look straight into

 

[RindaR]

a courtyard, containing a well. Beside it is a large cooking vessel hanging from a tripod by it's golden handles. Ahhh..... food and water? It's been a long and crazy day, perhaps something to drink and some nourishment. Looking into the well you see

 

[miakoda]

Yourself, of course. Oh, and the girl from 5th and Main.

 

[hilary]

And the worm. (It's a big well.)

 

[mudpie]

who looks an awful lot like a worm with a fiendish grin. "Do you feel mislead?" she asks with a snicker.