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One of my favorite commentaries Hex. 40.3

surnevs

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Since back in the end of the nineties I've kept written down on my electronic notebook this commentary ascribed to Confutze:
"Carrying a burden on the back is the business of a common man;

a carriage is the appurtenance of a man of rank.
Now, when a common man uses the appurtenance of a man of rank, robbers plot to take it away from him.
If a man is insolent toward those above him and hard toward those below him, robbers plot to attack him.
Carelessness in guarding things tempts thieves to steal.

Sumptuous ornaments worn by a maiden are an enticement to rob her of her virtue."
I don't remember in which occasion I received this hexagram but that this commentary helped me a lot. And it even stand for itself without having received this particular line in this particular hexagram. It's timeless Wisdom.
 

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Thank you for sharing this with us. Looking at 40.3 ....

Hex. 40's lower trigram is Water, perhaps this is one of us - or any of us - being carried along like a river, going with the flow, as if we're 'riding in a carriage'.

However, with the third line moving, we are also carrying a burden - 'shouldering a pack' that is perhaps our fears, sadness, grief. And whether our burden is from within - something we're carrying with us - or it's from without, as if being attacked by raiders, it has/is an augury (feeling) of distress.

We are advised then to be like Wind (what the third line changes into): perhaps that we should be more gentle and patient with ourselves, and find ways of relieving ourselves of these burdens we're carrying or being attacked by.

My sense is that any of us - commoner or royalty - may end up shouldering these burdens, and that all of us also have the opportunity to be relieved of them - to heal from our grief, sadness, and fear.

Best, D
 

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