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Hello everyone.
I haven't posted here for a while. I think because my ego's calmed down a little. But I still use the I Ching a lot. I just wanted to share with you all a reading I had which left me feeling comforted and so appreciative of the I Ching. Perhaps I should post this in Aha readings, but someone might want to add something. Also it may get more readership here
It isn't extensive, it just really warmed my heart this evening.
I just watched a very sad documentary about a teenage boy dying of cancer, and a friend of mine's sister was recently diagnosed with motor neurone disease, which I've been thinking about too. After watching the docu I obviously felt super sad and a little despairing but also, at the same time, so touched because the teenager in the film was very positive and strong. Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW7DXGArYZU if you want to watch it. (Of course it is very sad but happy at the same time. He has wonderful friends and family and gets married before he dies.)
It's so very unfair though. He died of bone marrow cancer (as did my cousin). After watching the film the only sensible thing to do seemed to be consult the I Ching, I suppose about death in general, and death especially when it's so tragic, so hard to reconcile yourself with. Now, I remember reading someone here say that static hexagrams encompass a whole - as in a sort of truth, unchanging - and they usually come up when I'm asking more general questions. Actually, as I was throwing the coins I knew/felt it had to be unchanging (and found myself worrying, thinking if I got a changing line, it wouldn't feel right at all (although trying also not to allow myself that worry and concentrate on the Q/feeling), because that's more for when situations are in flux I think. Well I just think it just wouldn't have felt so meaningful I think. It's hard to explain but you get an instinct for the kind of readings you should have a bit. Although I once got 25.5 'use no medicine for an illness' the day before my grandmother died, and at the time, she was dying of antibiotics, and that was a specific case, and a process that was playing out. Nature was at that time being prevented from taking its course. Anyway, I got hex 60 unchanging - Limitation. And reading just a couple of interpretations of it, these thoughts struck me as being comforting and relevant:
The most beautiful, well comforting:
'A lake is something limited (I interpreted the lake as the human body). Water is inexhaustible (I interpret water as the spirit) ... Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed his life would only dissolve in the boundless.'
(Richard Wilhelm)
- This really just makes me feel there's a spirit, something else...
And others:
(Death gives life its meanings as the) 'seasonal limits give the year its meaning'.
'Things cannot end with spreading out (hex 59 is the preceding hex - dissolution/dispersion) so measuring follows'
'The human experience is limited ... people need boundaries'
(Hilary Barret)
Well, it really warmed my heart anyway, although I still feel sad about it this evening. By the way, I'm not religious, well, except the I Ching/Taoism :bows:
I haven't posted here for a while. I think because my ego's calmed down a little. But I still use the I Ching a lot. I just wanted to share with you all a reading I had which left me feeling comforted and so appreciative of the I Ching. Perhaps I should post this in Aha readings, but someone might want to add something. Also it may get more readership here
It isn't extensive, it just really warmed my heart this evening.I just watched a very sad documentary about a teenage boy dying of cancer, and a friend of mine's sister was recently diagnosed with motor neurone disease, which I've been thinking about too. After watching the docu I obviously felt super sad and a little despairing but also, at the same time, so touched because the teenager in the film was very positive and strong. Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW7DXGArYZU if you want to watch it. (Of course it is very sad but happy at the same time. He has wonderful friends and family and gets married before he dies.)
It's so very unfair though. He died of bone marrow cancer (as did my cousin). After watching the film the only sensible thing to do seemed to be consult the I Ching, I suppose about death in general, and death especially when it's so tragic, so hard to reconcile yourself with. Now, I remember reading someone here say that static hexagrams encompass a whole - as in a sort of truth, unchanging - and they usually come up when I'm asking more general questions. Actually, as I was throwing the coins I knew/felt it had to be unchanging (and found myself worrying, thinking if I got a changing line, it wouldn't feel right at all (although trying also not to allow myself that worry and concentrate on the Q/feeling), because that's more for when situations are in flux I think. Well I just think it just wouldn't have felt so meaningful I think. It's hard to explain but you get an instinct for the kind of readings you should have a bit. Although I once got 25.5 'use no medicine for an illness' the day before my grandmother died, and at the time, she was dying of antibiotics, and that was a specific case, and a process that was playing out. Nature was at that time being prevented from taking its course. Anyway, I got hex 60 unchanging - Limitation. And reading just a couple of interpretations of it, these thoughts struck me as being comforting and relevant:
The most beautiful, well comforting:
'A lake is something limited (I interpreted the lake as the human body). Water is inexhaustible (I interpret water as the spirit) ... Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed his life would only dissolve in the boundless.'
(Richard Wilhelm)
- This really just makes me feel there's a spirit, something else...
And others:
(Death gives life its meanings as the) 'seasonal limits give the year its meaning'.
'Things cannot end with spreading out (hex 59 is the preceding hex - dissolution/dispersion) so measuring follows'
'The human experience is limited ... people need boundaries'
(Hilary Barret)
Well, it really warmed my heart anyway, although I still feel sad about it this evening. By the way, I'm not religious, well, except the I Ching/Taoism :bows: