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Hearing the chord played is one thing; being played like an instrument myself is another.
Here’s resonance at work: opening and following, experiencing the deep rapport with what-is we call synchronicity. Total participation.
So perhaps trusting in what strips away autonomy is a way to become a ‘bride of creation’. (Or perhaps it isn’t.)
"...to take this oath is to place trust in people who would strip away your self-determination. The whole idea of putting your moral choices unquestioningly in the hands of a master/guru - it's always going to stick in my very Western craw...
This is 58's 54 - opening yourself like the Marrying Maiden, who loses control of her own destiny. Dangerous? Of course. Necessary? Sometimes. To see the hopes it holds out for anyone who can trust in the stripping away, read the fan yao, 54.5. Such trust may be the only way the Maiden can enter into the higher and more complete levels of experience offered by marriage.
I've seen Hexagram 54 once before in association with accepting a 'master', though in a very different tradition.
The decisive choice in taking the oath is to give away your own independence. That's the message of line 5. It means deliberately becoming like the Marrying Maiden, the Pure Little Girl who is not yet an adult woman, who is without power to determine her own life course." - You
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).