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So what you seem to be saying is you think 22 is not only about the external attractiveness of something, but also favour, unmerited from the 'powers that be' meaning whatever one believes in God/universe/angels..which might also be as you say 'blessings' or what some might call luck. So you think 22 can just be saying to accept/receive you are blessed in the matter in question ? Could be, I can't think where else in the I Ching blessings as such are...except 42 maybe... I guess with 22 theres no depth of perspective, one can't see where things originate from so things might appear as blessings, the pattern of the fire on the mountain
I don't know if the original chinese name for the hexagram meant purely grace as in what is beautiful or if it includes other meanings too.
Theres grace meaning 'attractive, elegant in proportion or movement' and theres grace meaning 'goodwill or favour' as in '3 days grace' ,and then theres grace meaning 'the unmerited favour of God' as well as a few more meanings..
I think the term "glamor" (glamour in English) belongs in this discussion. On the one hand the "finer things" and "niceties" really improve the quality of life. On the other, a "glamour" is a spell that gets cast to keep someone from seeing the truth.
What Do All Those Flashes Mean?
The male firefly flashes its light for a very important purpose. It wants to find a mate. When it gets dark, the male firefly flies through the night. It flashes its light like a signal. Each kind of firefly has its own signal.
The female firefly has short wings and often can’t fly. It perches itself on a bush or a rock and waits. When a male passes by with a signal the female recognizes, the female flashes back the same signal. The male lands and touches the female’s antennae. This is how fireflies smell each other. If the female smells right to him, the two fireflies will mate. Later the female lays her eggs.
Ah, well, from the Dharma perspective, you are completely right.
But let me ask you, are not the other 63 hexagrams just as illusionary?
Lise:...
Then I saw what beauty really is: the energy of life showing itself gloriously. It is a lot more than adornment, it is how life looks. Nobody knows exactly what it is, but we all know how it looks.
THe image of blocked vision comes directly from the two trigrams -
li, light, blocked by gen, mountain.
When it's Xun below mountain, flowing is stopped and stagnation occurs (18)
With Li below, seeing is stopped.
Within the valley all you can see is the valley.
free association, vs digging for the under standing of a word/chracter or phrase. that said, i think more than ever that Grace is a perfect term for what is being expressed in 22.
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