The Wanderer who goes nowhere Hex 56 unchanging

[newlife123]

There are black holes and rabbit holes to fall into or through. I agree with those who say, enjoy the journey, however you perceive it.

Thanks meng,

Even if you could have certainty, perhaps it would not be desirable. What comes tomorrow was not here today. What stands today will soon be gone. Anything memorized is a map to old terrain.

With everything in constant flux, our main skill for life is swiftly surveying our situation, environment, and winds of change to assess direction, tendencies, and outcomes -- not clamoring for what is gone or repeating self-indulgent ideals.

 

[rodaki]

Friends,

Recently with all the turbulence and stress in my life I have decided to slow things down and kind of retreat from it a bit or at least a partial retreat. Besides believing in the I Ching, I also believe in karma theories and reincarnation and have come to my own conclusion that it isn't possible to change your destiny in the current life time. Being persistant or resistant in any situation just gives you mental agony in life. I believe the I Ching tells us the current flow of life but to me, that doesn't mean I can change it.

Well I asked Yi just now:

"Where is my life taking me?"

Got hex 56 and no changing lines. What do you guys think?

hello newlife,

having just gotten back from a journey, your thread was like waving at me . . so here are some more thoughts about hx56 (which btw is one that has often caused me to wonder).
I receive 56 very often the past few years, mostly in relation to my job, cause I teach a foreign language and that has also made me think about it a lot. What I keep going back to, is the qualities of its trigrams, the inner stability of mountain (kinda strange for a hx on the move) and the faster, sometimes almost fast-paced energy that fire acquires right next to it. If I have to use a metaphor for it, the first thing it brings to mind is being a train passenger looking out the window - being fixed while the scenery changes incessantly . .

I can find many ways this applies to our lives, even more so to the feeling one gets (or at least, this one, myself, gets ) after extended periods of traveling. The most important part of it is, though, how much the process of going out of ourselves, or out of our familiar ways, brings up stronger those parts of ourselves that remain the same, no matter how vastly different our outer circumstances. There's a persistent inner quality that gets revealed, time and again, through entering and exploring new territories, which often, has a consoling, soothing, reassuring quality to it and which, sometimes, makes me think that, no matter the itinerary, the most important part of the journey is the one that unfolds inside . .

Yesterday I left the place I was staying during my journey and wrote to my (previously unknown to me) host, how traveling reminded me that 'home is where the heart is' - that, physically means going back to the place we stay, or, getting out of it - no matter what, a return is always where we are headed

(and since that whole thing has got me in a poetic mood, you might enjoy this renowned greek poem about Wandering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk)