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A false modesty, or insincerity. But just thinking if that was the case then would a different hexagram not have come up instead?Well, the sour side of 15 is that it may not be or feel like what you're inclined to be or want to be at the time.
Here an effect that it took a long time to achieve, but that in the end seems easy of accomplishment and self-evident, is used as the image of modesty.
EDIT: ok, just realised that I misinterpreted what you were saying, sooo, as I was thinking more narrowly about it. This is actually a good point that I need to consider more....
If you look at the picture of 15 relative to 16 you see the firm line behind and ahead of the "center of gravity." This suggests the difference between reticence and readiness. As much as 15 would like to be perfectly realistic, perfectly centered. it might find itself too conservative and miss the real excitement. It lacks the "soul of a poet." Sometimes the optimum approach to a situation requires a little exaggeration, a little bursting into song, a little getting ahead of ourselves or getting carried away. Even if this approach starts out as unrealistic, it is often the only way to get certain kinds of real things done.
Thank you so much for this explanation! I don't know what else to say but this is exactly what I was looking for And I love how you link it in with the visual of the hexs.If you look at the picture of 15 relative to 16 you see the firm line behind and ahead of the "center of gravity." This suggests the difference between reticence and readiness. As much as 15 would like to be perfectly realistic, perfectly centered. it might find itself too conservative and miss the real excitement. It lacks the "soul of a poet." Sometimes the optimum approach to a situation requires a little exaggeration, a little bursting into song, a little getting ahead of ourselves or getting carried away. Even if this approach starts out as unrealistic, it is often the only way to get certain kinds of real things done.
It's true that it depends on the context, and what you said earlier was equally valid sooo and I appreciated what you had to say because 15 has appeared quite a lot for me for some reason, though usually as the resulting hex, so what you said was helpful as a broader view of it.It really depends on the context of the question. If one asks, what can (or must) I change in order to be noticed or recognized? 15 could refer to the negative aspect of the hexagram. However, I think it's more likely to offer 16 in that case, which is a change toward the goal of recognition, rather than a change away from authenticity. I can't imagine authenticity itself being negative in any case.
I just took this to refer to something like being imaginative/adventurous etc, and noted that bradford put the phrase in quotation marks.nor with a deficit of a poet's soul. Quite contrarily, it's the truth and depth of a poet's soul that makes it stand apart from the superficial.
How would you interpret it then if you did get 15 having asked such a question? i.e. asking a question to find out the negative aspect of something..
I just took this to refer to something like being imaginative/adventurous etc, and noted that bradford put the phrase in quotation marks.
Isn't it equally negative to overestimate your authenticity (being immodest) underestimating you authenticity ie. being too modest ?
Sure, but that is not true 15, as noted in lines 3 and 4.
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Thus the superior man reduces that which is too much,
And augments that which is too little.
I think of the great boxer Muhammad Ali during his prime, shouting to millions of viewers, "I AM THE GREATEST!", while it was perfectly true, he was the greatest. He was both, 15 and 16 in the truest sense.
Thanks. I guess that's really what I needed to know in relation to how to read a result like this. Probably sometimes I've been a bit too literal with my Q&A of the oracle, and maybe need to see it more as the answer being guidance or advice than a literal response to the the exact phrasing of the question.sooo said:It's been my experience that the Yi is more likely to point toward the desired changed, rather than away from the undesirable tendency.
Thanks. I guess that's really what I needed to know in relation to how to read a result like this. Probably sometimes I've been a bit too literal with my Q&A of the oracle, and maybe need to see it more as the answer being guidance or advice than a literal response to the the exact phrasing of the question.
If you look at the picture of 15 relative to 16 you see the firm line behind and ahead of the "center of gravity." This suggests the difference between reticence and readiness. As much as 15 would like to be perfectly realistic, perfectly centered. it might find itself too conservative and miss the real excitement. It lacks the "soul of a poet." Sometimes the optimum approach to a situation requires a little exaggeration, a little bursting into song, a little getting ahead of ourselves or getting carried away. Even if this approach starts out as unrealistic, it is often the only way to get certain kinds of real things done.
Well, the sour side of 15 is that it may not be or feel like what you're inclined to be or want to be at the time.
. And here comes hexagram 15 to say that you're out with a guy who is well-under the social speed limit and isn't likely to say anything frivolous or try out anything untoward -- when you're really hoping for a bit of untoward and frivolous. Difficult to get the heart racing over THAT scenario. But that's not the YI -- that's my social life!
All in all, Hexagram 15 has reflected such stability in situations I've cast for, which is generally comforting. On anything longterm it gives a good solid feeling. Hard to come up with a "negative" to that.
and that is not negative ???? !!!!that neither hot-nor cold thing
So, in my experience, [and you can tell I have a crap social life] this reliability, morality and manners comes with the Hexagram 15 price -- you are going to find it boring sometimes -- and THAT is the negative. No tango, but you probably won't end your days holding the fuzzy end of the lollipop either.
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