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That is an ingenious representation of the feelings of fortune and misfortune. My silence in this section is because I do not think fortune comes from the appended text but from timeliness -- accord of situation and character of querent. An inauspicious action is untimely, an auspicious one timely.
Yet for some mistakes there is no recovery but a lifetime of regrets.
Wilhelm: Concern over remorse and humiliation depends on the borderline. The urge to blamelessness depends on remorse.
Legge: Anxiety against (having occasion for) repentance or regret should be felt at the: boundary line (between good and evil). The stirring up the thought of (securing that there shall be) no blame arises from (the feeling of) repentance.
This idea that one can know, sense, the borderline between right and wrong and thereby make wiser choices intrigues me. Does this mean that by using the I Ching one will become more aware of this boundary? Because surely it is very difficult - often impossible - to know when you're starting to go off in the wrong direction. Often it's not until you see the results that you realize "I should have never done that."
-rosada
These "returning spirits" are the gui3 鬼 of 63.3, and better translated as ghosts, reserving "spirit" for shen. Their return (hexagram 64) is a return to nature. That is, they dissipate. So the "outgoing spirits" are the vitalities that become resident in a person and lead to birth.Wilhelm said:Through this we come to know the conditions of outgoing and returning spirits.
These "returning spirits" are the gui3 鬼 of 63.3, and better translated as ghosts, reserving "spirit" for shen. Their return (hexagram 64) is a return to nature. That is, they dissipate. So the "outgoing spirits" are the vitalities that become resident in a person and lead to birth.
. . .the term "returning spirit/soul" is used elsewhere. For soul/spirit hun2 魂 is used rather than gui3 鬼.
Luis, I didn't mean to suggest that the "returning spirits" in the quoted text of the Da Zhuan is a reference to 63.3 but that the Chinese character is the same. So far as I know, the term hun2 魂 isn't used in the Wings, but Gui and Shen are. Am I mistaken about this?
Here we are shown how with the help of the fundamental principles of the Book of Changes it is possible to arrive at a complete realization of man's innate capacities.
Therefore the spirit is bound to no one place, nor the Book of Changes to any one form.
For in him we live, and move, and have our being - Acts 17:28
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