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'Containing within, a thing of beauty: this can be constant.
Maybe following king's business -
Without accomplishment there is completion.'
From Hilary's translation in wiki
Hilary once told me this can also translate as 'chapters held within the mouth' or something like that - for 'containing a thing of beauty I think.
So there is something beautiful and worthy there which is worth being constant towards but don't do it for the sake of 'accomplishment' only do it for the sake of 'completion'. Don't do it for prestige or recognition that isn't what this is about, it's beyond that. Completing is enough - the work is done when there is completion.
I agree. Generally I would take the king as being the worldly values, the existing hierarchies of rewards and recognition. I mean I've had this line many times for voluntary work and also for the Yi book I am writing. It does say 'if' you are in the service of a king so if you are serving an organisationAnd, although I said that one line doesn't maketh a reading, I still read some more line interpretations, just to decipher what, exactly, am I not getting.
Came across Lise:
Line 3: Harboring qualities permits determination. If one follows king's affairs, without achieving, he completes.
One's inner pattern decides what one accomplishes. Honor is of no use, dedication does the job. Act as if it is for a king, not for a goal: the value is in the doing.
(Hex.2's 15 Joining the Work: Doing things the way they want to be done)
And it hit me that I'm not entirely sure who King is, or what King's work/business I could be doing... Unless, hmm, unless what Yi is trying to tell me is to validate my own gift by tending to it and writing as no one's watching, instead of trying to get a place in a setting where others may (or may not) offer me the validation. And, I guess, trust that the material world will take care of itself.
More thoughts on 2.3...
There is an adage that in order to learn how to do something there is a 3 step process.
1. See one.
2. Do one.
3. Teach one.
I'm thinking 2.3 could be a description of someone who has not yet completed step 3, that is, someone who may feel they are ready to call it a day and go to sleep - but there is some last duty that must be completed before there can be closure (2.4) so the person can then confidently experience and follow their new dreams (2.5) and be strong enough to pit these new ideas against the old (2.6).
More thoughts on 2.3...
There is an adage that in order to learn how to do something there is a 3 step process.
1. See one.
2. Do one.
3. Teach one.
I'm thinking 2.3 could be a description of someone who has not yet completed step 3, that is, someone who may feel they are ready to call it a day and go to sleep - but there is some last duty that must be completed before there can be closure (2.4) so the person can then confidently experience and follow their new dreams (2.5) and be strong enough to pit these new ideas against the old (2.6).
So as a writer you might apply this to your situation as meaning you
1.first have role models in your life, something that gave you the idea (like reading a poem and falling in love with poetry),
2. then you act on the inspiration (you write poems yourself), but you really haven't gotten the full experience, locked it in so to speak, until..
3. you pass on what you have learned and in this case it may be the pull to go back to school is not just a desire to be taught, but to teach. (Even though you might technically be a "student" by being a member of the class you are also a "teacher" )
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