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Does Yi teach what you want to learn, or what it wants to teach?
Hi Bruce, If I might give this a go "Hexagram 19" Approach;
to ask to be taught from a source, and find that what you are learning supprises you, generally appears to mean, our expectations may not have been clear in the beginning.
Approaching / Appears here to be confronting learning without expectation and with open mind'ed and study, improveing our understanding
"It is the father of the family, making sure everyone can follow his Tao and find his destiny." LiSe 19
That's quite a statement. But, what does it mean to you?
Does Yi teach what you want to learn, or what it wants to teach?
Does Yi teach what you want to learn, or what it wants to teach?
Yi gives an answer which applies to a specific situation, but to someone else it can give the same answer for a different situation.
I think it gives the bigger picture, in which those situations both fit, the answer beyond the situation, as if looking from a vantage point (19!). It is what myth does. The story of the hero can apply to a guy fighting the narrowness of his own mind but just as well to a doctor fighting for a patient or a bird defending its young.
Myth exists for teaching/learning both, in an inseparable way. If you have no myth in your soul, you cannot recognize situations, you'd have to learn all over again in every new one. So myth gives the 'truth', and you can find your own personal answer in it, because it is so wide that your answer fits easily into it.
LiSe
So magnetic north is actually 'truer' to reality than true north, isn't it?
The problem with magnetic poles, as any navigator can tell you, and it is hard coded in devices like GPS sets, ships gyroscopic compasses that need to be periodically adjusted, etc., is that they shift, fluctuate, move around constantly, sometimes by miles.
Myth just engages different pathways of perception than do cold, hard facts.
Clarity,
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W1A 6US
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