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Hi Cesca,
I feel there are far more cases of explicit interpretations and discussions than there are implicit interpretations and discussions, demonstrated on this forum.
A while ago, my husband laid into me for accumulating what he called 'stamp collecting knowledge'. I have mental lists of herbs that are good for this and essential oils that are good for that ('lavender plus chamomile = anti-inflammatory')... but no understanding of how any of this occurs. Yi started in on me with hexagram 4 at the same time, and I think that - as often happens... - they were saying the same thing.
The understanding I'm missing when it comes to essential oils is only to be acquired by in-depth study of biochemistry.
On meng as uncovering what's there... see the nuclear hexagram.
True enough, but meanwhile in the background, we're all expanding our 'feel' for the Yi --each of us deepening our relationships with it. The 'explicit' information exchanged acts as a stimulus to check out things we may not have noticed in our own experience.
Meng is at least partially about education – but it clearly isn’t talking about linear ‘fact-accumulation’. In fact, it may be talking explicitly about NOT being linear, about accessing a state of attentive receptivity that allows you to learn in a different way.
Hi Cesca,
I've too asked the Yi the Maria question "Who are you?" and received the answer "the Duke of Zhou" :bows:
I've not asked the "how do you do that?" question, because I believe in the principle of learning by doing
Maria, you continue to amaze me. You who doesn't know. :bows:
That why we are seeking them. They don’t come to teach us, they don’t need to prove something through us. We go to them to learn, to follow our questions and find our way to the answer. This sounds like an open and sincere exchange.
Saint –Exupery’s Little Prince says “what makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere is hides a well”. Maybe we seek the teacher to borrow the map ,the directions to the well. But what we get is “I don’t have a map for your well but you can use your compass (thirst) and you will find it, if you are really thirsty.
I try to find the words to explain all that feelings. But how to describe a beautiful sound or image with words? We say is sounds/looks/feels like this, but “like this” or “like that” is not “what it is”. It’s something else and in the process to analyze it, we lose it. If we are luck and realized that and wise to stop it ,then, maybe we can save it. And then the only thing we want to say is “thank you” or even better say nothing. Just smile.
Sorry , for the length but I couldn’t stop writing and or cut something to make it sorter. I really need to say that and share it with you. And thank you too….. (don’t
have to explain why, do I? )
King Wu died two years after the Conquest. His son, King Sheng, was only 13 years old and of course too young to rule the new established Zhou Dynasty. The line two tells me, that the Duke of Zhou became his stepfather. The other lines tell me about his paedagogic considerations as the teacher of the King. That's why I read his words exactly like you describe your new angle on the hexagram:
Okay, apply this to Hex 4: the covering/uncovering idea built into Hex 4 could apply to the developing of each of these centers in the growing process of the child, of the adult, of the mature adult - to anybody, in fact. It's more than explicit and implicit knowledge; it's where and how that knowledge is organized. Maybe Hex 4 includes that idea.
Yeah, that's a great angle. It could refer to needing to go back and pick up the dropped stitches - the areas of yourself that haven't been developed. Which isn't to say that everyone could or should operate equally well in all those ways; we're all skewed with various combinations of these qualities dominant to some extent. But if someone gets Hex4, maybe it's a call to develop some capacity that has been neglected.
That way of looking at it could apply within any model of personal development -- for example, in the Object Relations psychological model, it could refer to a 'Learning Task' that was missed; or it might refer to a different sort of 'yoga' (e.g. if you've been concentrating on Bhakti yoga, maybe you should develop another kind as well).
Clarity,
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