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dobro p

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I call Hex 9 'small restraining' and I call Hex 26 'great restraining'. For years I've assumed that the restraint referred to the amount of force applied by the user; today it occurred to me that it might refer to the strength of the force that needs to be restrained, so that in Hex 9 it's only a relatively small force that needs restraining and so it's rather easy to restrain it (the corollary is that it's only a relatively small accumulation that builds up - the clouds on the horizon rather than something big and energetic at the center of the situation). By contrast, in Hex 26 it's a relatively powerful force that needs restraining (in body/mind terms, something like anger or lust for example) and so you have to exert more concentrated personal power (the corollary being that so much force accumulates at the center of things that it's good to get away and 'dine away from home').

If this is the case, then 'xiao' and 'ta' each do double duty - they describe both a quality of the thing to be restrained and a measure of the amount of restraining power required (the corollary being that they also describe the amount of accumulated power involved in each). Sweet.

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Hex 9 and 26 from KWS

Hi Dobro,
First I would suggest the line.."Not eating at home brings good fortune" rather than referring to giving one's wife a break by eating at a restaurant, refers to the essential transition from Taoist to Confucian perspectives--assuming you are a truly superior man, a Taoist sage, don't stay home in private retreat, but join the government and add your skills and abilities to the management of the Kingdom.

In terms of the KWS hex 9, as the energetic opposite from the final quiet lake in the sunshine hex 10, is the ultimate energy forces of the jet stream controlling the weather patterns (water cycle over all). There is only one yin place, so the process is most focused upon except for any inner feelings or consciousness (the winds follow simple physics equations, but manage to set loose vast swings from the tiniest changes in local micro-conditions--cf. chaos theory---how could ancient Chinese know current scientific avant gard theory--watching the clouds, winds and the shadows from an 8 foot stick over the decades is just as powerful as any computer analysis--especially if your village's survival depends upon gentle rain rather than flood or drought.

Thus, the slight restraint would not be weak--a mere breeze-- but gentle in style--winds that only in extremes feel intense at ground level, but watching the cloud patterns in the sky clearly have more power than the ultimate army.

As for hexagram 26, it is a 6th hexagram, or the final result of the narrative process (in this Monad hex 21, of natural weather karma--thunder and lightning) following upon the initial conditions of hex 24 or the cycle of the seasons (specifically the victory of the light at Christmas time--the birthday of the Roman Sun god so dear to Constantine's mother), then the middle action of hex 25--thunder and sunshine which are vast energy sources for specific places--so their final product is hexagram 26 the sunshine within the mountain or the energy which enables a mountain to so animate water falling upon its summit that artesian fountains can spring up in the valley around the peak.

This is the big restraint of 2 yang lines or the clearly impressive energy of artesian springs though not as powerful in the overall scheme of things as the jet stream which is only wind. In process terms--it is process in general with the overall organization as well as the images of the soul open or background. Not just the weather system following the pressure gradients, but the absolute and inherent power of Planet Earth topography (gravity in physics) which doesn't even move about like the wind, but is universal.

Just an alternative, structural interpretation.
Frank
 

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