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I never take 'superior man' as talking about a 'higher status person' it is just a model for ideal behaviour of one who is acting in accord with the flow of the times - it never crosses my mind to think it as any type of person
35.4
Progress like a hamster.
Perseverance brings danger.
In times of progress it is easy for strong men in the wrong places to amass great possessions. But such conduct shuns the light. And since times of progress are also always times in which dubious procedures are inevitably brought to light, perseverence in such action always leads to danger.
Troyan:I never take 'superior man' as talking about a 'higher status person' it is just a model for ideal behaviour of one who is acting in accord with the flow of the times - it never crosses my mind to think it as any type of person
35.4 Progress like a hamster. Perseverance brings danger...
Advancing like a hamster,
Cheekily, and injuriously chewing all -
DANGER.
I'm left wondering how the Zhou knew so much about hamsters. Did they too keep hamsters as pets?
See: http://web.archive.org/web/20020726081746/www7.gateway.ne.jp/~saroop/realsade/yijing08.htm
35.4
Progress like a hamster.
Perseverance brings danger.
The shishu 鼫鼠 animal in the fourth line of hexagram 35 is most often recognized as some sort of rat, mouse or hamster. Even in old China there was speculation about the true meaning of this word...
The fact that both 鼫鼠 and 炙鼠 are different names for the mole cricket convinces me that line 4 of hexagram 35 also refers to the mole cricket...
From: http://i-tjingcentrum.nl/serendipity/categories/3-Character-analysis
Search «THE MOLE CRICKET» chapter.
35.5
Remorse disappears.
Take not gain or loss to heart.
Undertakings bring good fortune.
Everything serves to further.
35.6
Making progress with the horns is permissible
Only for the purpose of punishing one's own city.
To be conscious of danger brings good fortune.
No blame.
Perseverance brings humiliation.
Thanks for these comments Mike and ravenstar! Wish I'd read them a few minutes ago. I just gave a poster promoting some I Ching video the benefit of my opinion. Occurs to me now I probably should have just left him alone. And I wrote it on Quick Reply so now I can't erase it. ..hmm.. I guess I should go into hiding for awhile. Fitting lead in to Darkening of the Light... :bag:
No why should you go into hiding because of your comment there ? I appreciated it because what you said was true and it wasn't a malicious comment - so come back out please (I mean he has posted 5 identical posts, incase we hadn't got the message, so s/he shouldn't be too surprised at some kind of response )
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