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Hello all.
I'd like to know what your impressions on Nigel Richmond's translations and interpretations are.
I really seem to find it very suitable for all my readings.
Await your reply.
Kind regards.
Mary F.
Language of the lines of Nigel Ricmond is one of my favourites. It's in many occasions the first book I look in to when I use the Yi.
I also use it in my work as a acupuncturist, some of his insights are really to the point. Especially when people have chronic complaints.
His work really isn't a substitute for using a good Yijing translation and it doesn't adhere in any strict way to traditional meanings, but he has a surprising number of very useful insights into the deeper meanings of the texts. I think it's an important work to have if you are going to have more than a dozen books.
Example: I am having persistent migraine recently and really wish to find the cause. I thought it could be a medicine I take for a different purpose (depression). So I asked: Please explain if the migraines may relieve if I quit taking medicine X. Answer: 24. Richmond’s text: “Our whole personal self is accepting and active in this tao where the outer is fully active but its source is inactive. We are fully acting out and experiencing a phase of the life force which has now ceased to provide new impetus – we are carrying through something we have already begun. This heralds the end of a cycle of activity because all of our activity comes from the inner and is expressed outwardly … The impetus from the inner life force is great (Chen). It flows freely in our outer world, in our identity, and in our inner being (all Kun). The flow is fully outwards and fully accepted, a clearing out operation in which energy returns to its source, the inner, which makes it also a turning point in the cycle, an emptying out which makes room for the new to appear … Here the cycle is pictured as a coming and going, its free flow being the success and harmony. He relates for the full cycle of identifying (7 simbolizes the cycle as seen in consecutive steps like the days of our week) and then returns to his centre, the inner, the non-identified state. When we go through the outer experience and allow it to finish when it has no more energy all directions are favourable because none are selected or grasped.” For humans: “To the place where we have been we return. To the mood we have lived we return. But returning is arising anew.”
To me Trojan, it is clearly saying that I’m O.K. with the medicine to quit. And I really feel that because a couple of months ago I didn’t feel cheered enough and now I feel very well.
Furthermore, since I still have the migraine, I asked: what should I do? Answer: 24 : 6 >> 27.
Look at what he says in line 6: “Line 6 goes yang >> our inner being accepts less. If we become less involved in the emerging tao when it is in an inactive phase we are likely to miss the next emergency of activity and be out of phase with it. It is self-evident that if we do not recognize that we are at a turning point of the cycle and press on we shall miss the changes that are taking place and all our responses will be inappropriate. We will be ruled by desire patterns of our already formed identity, so disaster is stated for the ruler (the identifying process is the ruler of identity). If the turning point of the cycle is completely ignored nothing can be done about it until the next turning point, a complete cycle away and symbolized by ten, the whole, and year, cycle.”
I linked it with the consumption of white sugar that I know I’ve increased. I think I don’t even need to quote Hex.27, otherwise this thread will be huge. This is why I also won’t quote further examples right now.
BTW I'm reading a very interesting book issued in the 90ies by Eranos Foundation ref. Ethics, Images and the Yi.
mary f said:(it’s impossible to have some books delivered here in the jungle ). I’ll be glad to share an example with you so you may give me your opinion.
What?! You wrote this the other day:
You are telling me you were able to get that and no other books? Heck, I had difficulties finding and getting that delivered: IN CIVILIZED NEW JERSEY...
24 set to zero, love that. I don't have Nigel's books but everything I have seen of his strikes me as deep, warm/human, and insightful.
I'm picturing Mary surrounded by Lions and Tigers...my jungle image
ours only has some anacondas, spiders, anteaters, mosquitoes and a couple of jaguars left.
WHAT NO TREES !!!!!!!
I guess the loggers have been working overtime over the last few weeks.
Mike
I wonder if you've met Ely Britto in Brazil? She an old friend from the now defunct Hex-8 mailing list. Very knowledgeable in the Yi, great heart, and someone I'm sure you'd enjoy meeting. I've never had the pleasure of meeting her in person but it would be one of my stops if I traveled to Brazil.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).