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Perhaps this will give an idea of "cangue"
Oh, I hardly think I'm so different from anyone else, lol.
Yes, there is the whole punishment thing in this hexagram, but just as with a pragmatic view of 4, a pragmatic view of 21.6 isn't punitive, so much as it is a natural and cyclical occurrence of nature. I mean, you don't bite through meat to punish it, do you? So, it can mean punitive action, but it can as easily mean a firm or committed decision. or getting to the bottom of things.
I agree and I still find it quite hard to mentally equate punishment with decisive committed action. Punishment is something one person inflicts on another to deter them from repeating a behaviour and its upheld by a rule or a law. I find that quite hard to marry that with an idea of taking firm and decisive action to solve a problem - after all this need not involve any concept of punishment at all. Like you say one does not bite through meat to punish it.
Then again I guess when one has to make a hard decision or firm stance about something it often can mean making oneself or someone else uncomfortable. Maybe this hexagram comes up often when discomfort/trouble (punishment) are unavoidable consequences of doing what needs to be done.
Like with Rosadas example of reporting the care worker who didn't respond to her mother. In order to rectify things it was unavoidable for her to have to risk making someone else uncomfortable, there was no option, she could hardly just allow her mother to go on suffering being unattended.
IC+ 21
...SHIH : bit away, chew; bite persistently and remove; snap at, nibble; reach the essential by removing the unnecessary. The ideogram: mouth and divination, revealing the essential..
Chris.
Does anyone know an english word or expression which means biting but can also be used for deciding?
Does anyone know an english word or expression which means biting but can also be used for deciding?
I would love to make that shaman clear in the name as well. Biting is shaman + mouth. There must be more to it than just biting. Lawsuit, penalties so the law is followed... the shaman or wizard who gave the answer to the consulting of the gods was the one who handed the decision of the gods down to the people.
I guess deciding and biting are very close together.
Hexagram 21
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