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and...we miss the point that who is seeking is who is looking and we are One and the same being.
...I intended to see myself in this way.
Perhaps folks on this website use "Obstruction" for hexagram 12 because that it is called in Wikiwing and Hilary uses "Blocked" in her translation. Wilhelm uses "Standstill (Stagnation). Bradford, I note that you call it "Separating", which is indeed quite different from blocked or obstructed. Can you tell us more about why that is a better way of translating Bi?
Meant to write Pi. The model is heaven and earth moving in opposite directions. They aren't opposing, blocking or fighting each other - that's a major form of interaction and the whole point is that there is no interaction and therefore no synergy. It's the negation of turning or going away. Blocked is Gua 39.
These are the dictionary definitions I found for Pi
pi3 1902 999e 30+4 07.1 (to be) inferior, wrong, worthless, decaying, bad, stagnant, stagnating, disintegrating, alienated, inappropriate; (to) deny, refuse, stop, negate, disapprove (of), separate (from) (s, ed, ing); on the contrary; not, if not, or not, not do; (a, the) standstill, stagnation, separation, disintegrity, negation, denial,, incoherence; [entropy]; what is not so; not, wrong; ap fou3: to not be, if not, if out of
The fan yao 12.4 has proved a challenging line to translate, but I finally settled on: "Having higher purpose is not a mistake. But this kind of thing differs from happiness."
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