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Hello Troian,
thank you for your contribution. Well, your answer is interesting. you are right, sometimes enthusiasm can lead to illusion and surely 16.6 has this meaning. But I've never got that line! you see my query was prompted by a doubt I had, that is: may be I-Ching is warning me that the direction I took in life is an illusion, that I'm caught in illusion and I'm not realizing it. But it seems that maybe I'm not understanding its warnings. So I thought to reverse the question: is there an hexagram for illusion?
If there is one which has this precise meaning I guess I should have obtained it once or more times. I mean I-Ching is always very keen on giving the proper advice and if I am caught in a illusion "he" surely must have hinted at it, don't you think so? So, if I never got that kind of hexagram in my answers I may be sure that I'm not caugt in a illusion after all. Do you think my line of reasoning has sense?
I remember having got 16 once, but only with a positive meaning and line. So I don't think that is the case.
anyway I'll try to look for that answer in my note-book and see what come out of it.
Thank you again,
Donato
Hello Troian,
Thanks again for your valuable support.
“sounds like you are trying to pin something down by a process of elimination.”
Just So! And it seems I-Ching is eluding me!
“ I think it would be more fruitful to ask the Yi directly whether you have been misguided in your pursuit of your direction.”
Well, I’ve done it more than once. I asked something like: where is leading me the direction I took? Once I got N° 40 – no lines – so I took it as a positive answers (actually I was hoping to get rid of a difficult situation), but – alas – liberation didn’t come… I repeated the same question and got a different answer… so that made me think that perhaps I had not understood the first answer.
What if liberation meant “get rid of the idea you have”?
“No I don't think your line of reasoning has sense because hexagrams can have all sorts of meanings according to the context of your question..”
Yes, of course, still if the direction I choose (or we may say the line of action) is an illusion, i.e. doesn’t lead anywhere, I think I-Ching should have told me in a way or another…
Actually I have the sensation that possibly I may be caught in a sort of wrong idea about what is useful to do.
“well again i tend to think all we do is experimental, you experimented with a certain direction...if it isn't what you thought doesn't mean you were deluded...”
Well… if that line of action didn’t bring the result I hoped for it could be wrong. (Or may be the times are not mature) I want to know if it’s advisable to stick to it (or to continue in that direction) or whether it’s better to drop it altogether.
Can you think of a proper question to ask?
D.
I don’t see the connection between 20 and illusion, unless you mean to state that through 20 you can dispel illusion – I think I got once or twice that kind of advice.
The most interesting, at least to me, is 36, because when you are caught in illusion you are blind to truth. Actually illusion is like a curtain (or a cloak) that prevents us from seeing the light.
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