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Well, just take a look to the shared readings areaor have a lot of shocked people who like to hang out here.
Yan2 (words, speech) occurs 12 times in the Yi. 51 has the largest number, with it cropping up three times in that hex alone. It seems that shock triggers speech. If that's so, then this site must either be terribly shocking, or have a lot of shocked people who like to hang out here.
is probably as good a response as there is to the original statement that shock produces talk-- although the actual Chinese text highlights the terrified muteness of most in a time of shock which Wilhelm/Baynes highlights as just a generalized "terrifies for 100 miles" while the distinguished subject shines by not being upset (or talking particularly).Knowing where we are now and comparing that to where we need to be creates shock and leads to talk and self examination.
As for disturbance causing talk--hex 6 has various associations to being fundamentally a crowd which it is assumed would naturally give rise to talk and that lead to conflict. Hex 51 generally seems to be speaking of a more complex and Cosmic development like major earthquakes thundering about causing folks to fall into terrified silence except for the most centered and focused who just keep on with their Cosmic connections.
Frank
51.4 A shock often makes people talk a lot of nonsense. Let them, they are cleaning up inside. Stay nice and they will calm down again and find themselves back - better than they were before.
Seems to me, from my experience and viewing others readings, hexagram 51 is about all kinds of excitement/arousal. It comes up time and time again where people are in states of infatuation and I associate it with passion and heightened feeling.(as well as all other kinds of shock of course, trauma etc)
Clarity,
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