Memorizing the I Ching Hexagram 10. Lu / Treading (Conduct)

[rosada]

10.2 is all about how to BE solitary, how to travel through life unassailed. In otherwords, the IC is acknowledging the bustel of life is out there and every creature has a different adgenda. I may see myself as being friendly, but a tiger will see me as lunch. If I want to go my way unassailed I must blend in to the point of being invisible - dark - then I wont show up on the tiger's radar.

Our posts overlapped. When I used the word "dream" I meant it to indicate that we all have a different vision of what the reality is. A parking lot may be just a place to leave my car in my "dream", but a pickpocket might see it as a hunting ground in his. Thus to get to my car safely I need to be clearly focused in my vision, so none of my body language says, "Next victim" in his.

 

[bruce_g]

Hi Rosada,

I think a powerful dream can be apt for hex 10. Or if not a dream than perhaps a mythological landscape. It can be proportioned to fit practical circumstances, but I believe deeper collective processes are always at work in this hexagram.

The feeling I get from 10 is that of a primate who, for the first time perceives his environment in a thoughtful way. The valley is low and grassy, the mountains are steep and dangerous, the half moon hangs high in the sky. His primal mind begins to sort one element from the other, discerning high and low. From this contextual field, he begins to discriminate high-low-ness from everything in his environment, and wonders how he fits into this natural hierarchy. He feels a certain superiority: certainly he is greater than the tree or the squirrel in the tree, greater than the fish in the brook; he even caught one once with his big hands. He proceeds along now, the master of the forest, confident in his superiority, until he suddenly finds himself in eye of a tiger. Now he rethinks his place in the natural order, and is happy to move his esteem down a notch. To him now, the tiger is God, and it is she that will decide his destiny. His fear is his only enemy.

 

[rosada]

Bruce - what you said - yeah!

 

[bruce_g]

LOL, Rosada.

Picture this same scenario, but in place of the monkey-man, let’s make him a 5 year old kid, going to his first day of school. Or an adult, who has worked hard at their job, and just knows that they deserve a big raise from their tough boss?

 

[nicky_p]

The thing about this tiger is that it's seemingly unpredictable. One day you step on it's tail and it bites; another day it doesn't!

... and it is she that will decide his destiny.

Therefore it must be female, huh?

 

[bruce_g]

The thing about this tiger is that it's seemingly unpredictable. One day you step on it's tail and it bites; another day it doesn't!

Precisely.

Therefore it must be female, huh?

Erm.. do I have to answer that question?

 

[nicky_p]

lol

 

[rosada]

It occurs to me that Lindsay's thread, "Keep it light enough to travel" is a good example of Hex. 10. All the various posters, all the various opinions about how to decipher the oracle.

 

[rosada]

Hex. 10.6

10.6
Look at your conduct and weigh the favorable signs.
When everything is fulfilled, supreme good fortune comes.

 

[bruce_g]

(deletes msg)

Never mind. Not worth it. (Hands back the little pointing stick to teacher, and cuts class again.)

 

[rosada]

10 as Group Mind. Everyone on their own path, posting in their own little box but we don't know who's reading us or how The Group Mind will respond, so when we say our piece, we try to tread lightly and if we don't get bogged down or off track thinking someone else in their little box has any more or less power than we do, then we can have our say and feel good about it.

 

[rosada]

Also, it occurs to me that the discussion about hex.10 here has had more comment on ways of avoiding pitfalls and that the benefits of 10 ought also be acknowledged. Being a member of an orchestra enriches one's own playing. Asking the group here for their perspectives clarify one's own. This morning I asked my husband - who remembers things better than I - for a name I couldn't remember. As soon as I asked him - as soon as I had hooked up with his mind - the name popped into my own. The Mastermind Connection can be very useful.

 

[Trojina]

We're on 10.6 already ? Its a line I feel frustrated with when I receive it, the advice being to look back and if the way has been good the outcome will be good. I never find this a practicable thing to do, not a useful thing to do. Or alternatively I think well if I could work it out that way i wouldn't be talking to you Yi would I

I'm interested to hear how others view it.

 

[rosada]

Well Trogan, I think it's interesting that at this point ewald looked back and caught my error so I was able to fix it. Maybe 10.6 is the I Ching's gentle way of telling us to review the past, there may be a small mistake, a little bump in the road we've overlooked and now is the time to go back and fix it.

 

[lightofreason]

IC+ Line 6
"To see what is ahead, look at what is behind, for it is one's past conduct that will influence future events."

with/from treading comes self-reflection doubled - intensity in expression.

 

[rosada]

There was a movie several years back..can't recall the title..the idea was that when a person dies the angels help them reconstruct their most pleasant memory. If it was their childhood home, then the angels put together a scene that resembles it. If it was the view from a park bench, then the angels bring in grass and trees. Anyway, once the diorama is created, then the soul gets to sit and look at it throughout eternity and be at peace. I'm not sure I really understood the concept, but I think about it now, as we're on the cusp of hex 11. Peace. 10.6 seems to be about that moment of quiet reflection, like after you've had a full day and now the dishes are done and the kids have gone to bed, when it's so pleasant to just sit and look and feel how good it all is.

10.6: If the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

 

[lightofreason]

10.6 is having a subtle 'dig' at all you 'diviners' - there is no 'life' other than an examined one and so one clearly linked with history - genetic, social, psychological, emotional.

'random' processes are reflected in Markov chain material that comes down to the current predicts the next - in other words there is no history, all is random or miraculous.

Life does not do this in that it works off feedback, positive and negative, to achieve development/goals etc and so a developed, refined, memory system - aka history.

The patterns that come out of feedback cover spiral developments of the circular form (fibonacci sequences) to the square form (binary sequences). Beyond that we move into complexity/chaos dynamics.

Using the IC as a guide, mapping the determined elements of the general-particular with the 'random' elements of the moment and so singular is the best path in that it shows a history in the form of symbiosis - any other way shows more a sucking dry of meaning in the form of a parasitic relationship (addiction is like this).

Chris.

 

[mudpie]

Practically speaking, I find 10.6 to be kind of soothing. It is sometimes a line that is saying....." there is no need to be overly cautious/worried about this, because basically the issue at hand/outcome is going to be contingent on what you've done, or who you are, already." The path that has already been laid out.

It is kind of like a "don't worry" line either way......because even if you don't think you have exactly handled things so well in the past, maybe your path is protected in ways you only see in retrospect.......This line makes me think of the poem "Footprints"......you look back to see the prints of your path up to now, and see that in your most difficult moments, when you it seemed you were all alone or at risk, you were actually carried by the Divine. And you can count on that to be true for the path forward.

 

[martin]

Practically speaking, I find 10.6 to be kind of soothing. It is sometimes a line that is saying....." there is no need to be overly cautious/worried about this, because basically the issue at hand/outcome is going to be contingent on what you've done, or who you are, already." The path that has already been laid out.

I agree. 10.6 could come up when you are preparing for an exam, for example. I think it means in that case that if you do what needs to be done, there is no need to worry, you will probably be okay, you will pass the exam.
Legge writes in his notes that what is said on line 6 is 'only a truism'. But it isn't, because there are cases in which things can easily go wrong even if we prepare well.
10.6 is apparently not one of those cases. The endresult (which is not yet known) will probably be good if the steps taken sofar are appropriate. The process is kind of deterministic and so it's all to a large extent in our own hands.

 

[Sparhawk]

 

[knotxx]

I have an image too, for hexagram 10 as a whole, which rosada suggested I post here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31722369@N08/3458312652

As I said in that thread, this image is missing the treading aspect of the hexagram, but for me it catches some of the other aspects.