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martinus

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No moving line(s) - a hex locked in itself.
Usually not what one expects to get, and quite often more or less not very favourable.

I play chess ( as a member of the local team). I could (and actually should) do better.
I asked the Yi Ching what to do to improve. What I got was 28 - "Preponderance of the Great". No moving line within.
Now, there's the tendency of a certain "too much", the danger of excess in 28. And I immediately realized that this doubtless referred to my way of playing: too many risks, playing on razor's edge too often (and too soon), a lack of self-restraint due to being too spontaneous. The fact that no line was moving clearly indicated that it would not be easy for me to overcome this obvious disadvantage - this deficiency is too closely linked with my "general disposition".

However, there was more to be found in that answer.The World of Thought arrangement ((Fu Hsi) in a way shines "through" the World of Senses (King Wen's order): So the counterpart of 28 leads to 60, Limitation. One can't but admire these hidden implications. If we go on like this we have 7, the Army , looming behind 60 - well, chess is essentially a "military game" (at least its origins were). And it takes a lot of discipline (a match may last four or five hours..). When proceeding like this one always gets four hexagrams that are intimately linked. In my case, the fourth one, derived from 7, is Contemplation. (And behind this one there's 28 again...) Now, it's most interesting for me to find contemplation at the end of this structure - and contemplation means being in a state of calmness... And after contemplating this quartet and its inner relations I no longer was disappointed because of the missing moving line(s).
Once again the Yi Ching has turned out to be "a superior man (or better: being)".
 

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Thanks for sharing that one :) (And good luck with the chess!)

Reminds me of the time I asked for a portrait of a relationship - because I wanted to understand the relationship, of course, but also because I was thinking that this might give me an example of a reading where different moving lines and how they relate represent different people, and I could use this in course materials I was writing.

I received 38, unchanging.
:rolleyes:
 
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meng

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Yeah, that's a good one, Martinus.

Perhaps improvement lies within 28 itself: "The noble one stands alone without fear, retreats from the world without melancholy". Sounds to me like a "hold em" discipline and strategy, bit of a poker face, hard to read posture?
 

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When I get an unchanging hex, I usually see it as 'information' without any need to do something. I can - or not, that is up to me, but there is no special need to. For me the lines are advice for what to do, if there is nothing which asks for action - no lines.
 

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An unchanging hex - It's like everything is how it should be, sit back and take a rest and here's a picture for you to look at while all ducks are lining up for the next change.
 

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An unchanging hex - It's like everything is how it should be, sit back and take a rest and here's a picture for you to look at while all ducks are lining up for the next change.

Like it !
 

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Didn't Jesed say that unchanging hexagrams meant there was nothing you could do? That seems like the same basic idea seen from a different angle.
 

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"Usually not what one expects to get, and quite often more or less not very favourable."

I've actually found that the times I get a single hex is when I've been examining a problem from all sorts of angles and generally driving myself crazy and I ask a single question to cut through all the over analysing. Recent examples include:
Is he the right one for me (after many many questions about a relationship which wasn't working, and I was giving some space to): 53
Is my intuition right about this situation (same relationship, after deciding to back off for a few months before getting back in touch): 24

In both cases the answer felt positive and just like a definite 'yes, don't worry you are on the right track' and didn't need any further explanation. I don't see single hexes as negative or lacking anything, more like a clear answer to a clear question.
 

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